B2B Lead Blog - Inside Sales

JULY 14, 2014

In inside sales, it’s not just about what you “ask” prospects; it’s about when you ask them. This is where a lot of sales development reps get it wrong. As a consequence, how you arrange the story in your marketing efforts will make the difference between delivering information of true value, or just another frustrating sales pitch prospects don’t want to hear. Inside Sales Cold calling sales development reps

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For years, sales and marketing teams have been spending money to buy lead generation tools and contact data to grow their email marketing database. Unfortunately, the days of just filling your marketing system with the most names, emailing them indiscriminately, and seeing a flood of responses is long gone. Join the webinar: All Data is NOT Created Equal : An Independent Case Study Comparing ZoomInfo and DiscoverOrg Email Accuracy.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 11, 2017

Startups and challengers—even those with disruptive offerings—faced a significant uphill battle to win new business at scale and steal market share from industry leaders, because they had limited visibility and access to buyers. From high-growth companies MongoDB, Cloudera, Birst, Actifio, and DiscoverOrg, come first-hand insights on finding success through high-quality sales and marketing intelligence.

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Tom Hopkins

MAY 27, 2014

And despite all your phone calls, emails, etc., Is there really an email guaranteed […]. The post One Email Guaranteed to Get a Response appeared first on How to Selling Skills. Related posts: Using Phone and Email for Sales Conversions. Guest Blogger email marketing mike brooks mr inside sales Tom Hopkins tom hopkins sales training tommy hopkins Nothing is more frustrating than not hearing back from a prospect or client.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 27, 2020

When it comes to increasing sales productivity, the simplest answers are still the best. Template Emails. AI-Driven Sales Engagement. There are constantly new innovations to sales tools. Today it’s possible to check your CRM, manage relationships with your clients, and organize trip expenses entirely through mobile apps (to learn more about the latest and greatest, read Kelly Liyakasa’s “ 5 Emerging Sales Productivity Tools ”). Template emails.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 7, 2015

Or at least that’s what a recent report by Forrester Research, an independent and leading research company in the marketing and technology space, has predicted. The author, Andy Hoar, outlines the following as major contributors to this demise: B2B buyer preferences have fundamentally shifted from speaking with a sales rep 1-on-1 to a self-education ecommerce type model for purchasing. Consider Marketing Technology vendors and their target audience: marketers.

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B2B Lead Blog - Inside Sales

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In spite of the fact that in the past pushy salespeople and poorly trained marketers have tarnished the image of the phone, I still believe that smart cold calling is still a very useful lead generation tool. Studies by leading marketing research firms like MarketingSherpa show that 92% of B2B buyers are open to cold calls if the salesperson is relevant. Make sure that your cold-calling connects to your other ongoing marketing and reputation-building activities.

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Velocify

MAY 16, 2013

There are sales strategies from the email era that remain as effective today, and new selling insights that make email even more effective. It’s hard to think of a single innovation as transformational as the Internet, and a technology that led big transformation in the early days is described with what’s now a single, often un-hyphenated word: email. helped drive rapid adoption of email. Email was new, it was exciting and it was a game changer.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 29, 2020

The difference between a good and great sales development rep (SDR) is the skills they grasp. Email. A Sales Development Representative, or SDR, is one of the primary roles within a sales and marketing team. They are inside reps who are focussed more on inbound lead qualification and channeling those leads into qualified appointments. SDRs have to master specific SDR skills that play an essential job within a healthy sales procedure. Email.

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InsideSales.com

OCTOBER 3, 2019

RELATED: How to Transform Customer Service into a Sales Machine. A loyal customer will buy from you even if you’re not on sale. This builds up your company’s image even without spending more on marketing. Additionally, address the issues the customers expressed, whether it’s about a sales rep’s performance on the phone, customer service, or the product itself. Personalizing emails for better customer retention.

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InsideSales.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the beginning stages of structuring a sales team , a new hire will get the chance to work alongside a seasoned rep and soak in the sale process, as well as how to best prospect leads. But when your sales team grows from a few to dozens, it can be difficult to keep the focus on how everyone works as a cohesive unit. As a sales manager or leader, your job is to provide your team with the tools they need to be successful. Why sales training is important.

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Velocify

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Best-in-class sales organizations consistently exceed expectations and outperform the competition. While each organization has its own unique structure, goals, and KPIs, top-performing sales teams commonly employ a few key strategies in their quest for success. Top-performing sales organizations differentiate themselves from the competition by focusing on customer experience and speed-to-response. Align Sales and Marketing.

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Velocify

JULY 21, 2017

We recently caught up with long-time client, Guaranteed Rate, to chat about their challenges and successes over the past decade and how Velocify has helped them rise to the top in an ever-evolving mortgage market. Read on to learn more about their story, plus check out our exclusive video interviews with Dan Miedema, Director of Marketing Operations at Guaranteed Rate. Like any growth-oriented business, Guaranteed Rate’s primary focus was to accelerate sales.

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B2B Lead Blog - Inside Sales

MARCH 31, 2014

Lead generation teleprospecting is the art of acquiring sales-ready leads for a sales staff. After all, the knowledge you acquire can be applied to several facets of your marketing efforts, including what you emphasize online. The first thing to consider when launching a lead gen teleprospecting campaign is to make sure that your value and anxiety relief efforts are geared toward your target market. You may also like Email Marketing: Do you test your legacy marketing?

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A new study from Process Street in partnership with sales email tool PersistIQ reveals the inside sales outreach of the world’s 281 top SaaS companies, and how they respond when a high-ticket lead (in this case, we used Vodafone) signs up for a free trial or demo. The sales communication has been made public and searchable at InsideSaaSSales.com along with a study analyzing the key trends. Companies send one email per day until the end of the cycle.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The process of sales and marketing alignment is so fraught with assumptions, misunderstandings, and disagreement that we think both departments need a relationship therapy session! Marketing has certain data needs. Sales has others. Sales uses a CRM … but the marketing automation system might not integrate. Marketing says their leads are qualified – but Sales doesn’t trust them. Location data (Marketing loves).

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Understanding the Sales Force

JUNE 20, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I subscribe to several newsletters written by medical doctors who practice natural medicine. I read most of the other sales blogs too. Some of them are from companies within the Inside Sales community which, in an attempt to sell their services, are also publishing misinformation. And the misinformation is killing sales forces. These tools include gamification, call technology, email marketing and analytics.

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Fill the Funnel

JULY 2, 2013

Sales and marketing leaders should open a line of communication with these small businesses to learn what is working to help them grow their revenue and customer base. The economy was approaching chaos status, social media was beginning to gain some traction with business, and inside sales was starting to become more than just a training ground for the outside sales team. Social Media Marketing (770% growth). Mobile Marketing (1050% growth).

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The last reaction salespeople want from their sales prospecting efforts is to ignore the requests of a sales lead. This week I received this unsolicited email: Credit www.gtatisography.com. As I only buy from people I know and trust, I responded with this email: I buy from people I know and trust. Please remove this email address from your database. I’ve tried to contact you through email. Please remove this email from your database.

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OutboundView

JULY 14, 2019

EBQ By Appointment Only Strategic Sales & Marketing. Vsynergize Salesify Ecoast Marketing Cience SalesPro Leads. Extended Presence B2B Only Appointment Setters Pereus Marketing. Their team syncs their messaging with your brand’s and finds prospects so that your sales staff doesn’t have to. In addition to appointment setting, EBQ provides full service sales and marketing outsourcing. Strategic Sales & Marketing.

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Green Lead's B2B

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Inbound Marketing is all the rage these days, and why shouldn't it be? Inbound Marketing's goal is to pull potential customers in by all different methods, whether it's compelling content, savvy SEO execution or community interaction via social media. While inbound strategies are effective, augmenting them with outbound marketing strategies can add to that success. Be it appointment setting , lead qualification, or email marketing, where's all the goodness at?

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 31, 2018

CRM, or customer relationship management, is a strategy companies use to track customer relationships from pre- to post-sale. Marketing and Sales touchpoints (including email, phone, website, live chat, and social media) are tracked, providing customer-facing employees with detailed context on a client’s activity and feedback. As your company grows, it’ll become harder and harder for your sales team to hunt down information about customers and prospects.

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Close.io

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Wondering what the right sales approach for your company is? Should you build an inbound sales machine, set up an outbound sales team, or take a hybrid approach? Inbound sales is famous for being able to attract customers to any business, be cost effective, and scale really well. But on the other hand, outbound sales proves itself a fierce opponent. Inbound sales strategy: When is inbound the right choice? Pros & cons of inbound sales.

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Cience

JULY 9, 2020

If you’ve worked in marketing or sales over the past decade then you’ve most likely heard it said: “Cold calling is dead.” Sizzling Duo: Cold Calling And Cold Emailing. How to Handle Objections In Sales Calls. Cold Calling Tips From Sales Pros. In B2B outbound marketing, cold calling is a prospecting technique used to start business conversations with decision-makers over the phone. The cold calling technique takes its origin from door-to-door sales.

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SalesLoft

AUGUST 27, 2019

Looking at the reply rates of a campaign is the gold standard for measuring email effectiveness. As the Senior Manager of Demand Generation at Jitterbit, Wes is responsible for streamlining inbound and outbound channels using their sales tech stack and shares his knowledge and experience on this episode of the Hey Salespeople podcast. . How should you approach mid-market accounts versus enterprise accounts? . What are the holes in sales engagement platforms? .

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CloserIQ

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Boston is emerging as one of the hottest startup cities in the country, which is great news for sales professionals. These companies are all backed by venture capital and are currently hiring in sales roles. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but here are some great companies to consider for your next sales job. Mendix is currently hiring across a range of sales positions. CarGurus has openings in numerous sales and customer success positions.

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Nudge.ai

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Going into the New Year as a B2B sales professional, you’ll likely have some software subscriptions coming up for renewal, so we wanted to prepare you for those decisions. We sifted through B2B sales tools on Capterra , G2 Crowd , Gartner and more to pull out our top 126 picks for everything from new-age social selling tools to B2B sales automation software. Base: Next-generation CRM software for leading B2B sales teams. Streak: CRM inside Gmail.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

This list of sales statistics to boost selling results can also be used to shape your sales strategy implementation. Sales statistics and data are factors now important in defining any selling activity or investment from social selling to inbound sales. Sales statistics are also critical for sales channel selection and how to drive deeper customer engagement. GENERAL SALES STATISTICS. 17% of all B2B sales in the US by 2023.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you’ve seen quite a bit about sales productivity in the last few weeks. And for good reason—sales productivity is the theme of our 2018 Growth Acceleration Summit! So, to get you in the right frame of mind and prepare you for our upcoming event—we’re giving you 15 of the best blog posts about sales productivity. 6 Outdated Sales Techniques That Hurt Your Productivity. 3 Scary Smart AI Tools That Will Boost Sales Productivity.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

Let’s talk about the unicorns of sales development: high-quality sales leads. High-quality sales leads are the heart of our business at CIENCE — the very best we give our clients. What is a Sales Lead? In the B2B selling process, a sales lead is a decision maker (and her/his contact data) at a company that you hope will become your client. Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity.

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Cience

MAY 7, 2019

Let’s talk about the unicorns of sales development: high-quality sales leads. High-quality sales leads are the heart of our business at CIENCE — the very best we give our clients. What is a Sales Lead? In the B2B selling process, a sales lead is a decision maker (and her/his contact data) at a company that you hope will become your client. Once the qualified sales lead is passed to a Sales Manager or Account Executive, it is called an Opportunity.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Outreach’s annual sales industry summit, Unleash, has a speaker lineup for 2019 that is absolutely packed with genius-level sales insights. It just so happens that many of the speakers (26 of them, actually) are also some of our favorite Sales Hacker contributors! We’re so excited about seeing these pros speak that we took a little time to gather some of the best articles, webinars, podcasts, and guides they’ve shared with the Sales Hacker community in the past.

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