Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Author: TJ Macke For marketers, obsessing over outbound strategies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You may notice that your campaigns move too quickly or slowly, indicating that your marketing team has become distracted. If you’re going to obsess over B2B outbound marketing strategies, try fixating on the right ones.

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Outbound Marketing Ideal Customer Profile Campaigns 177

Zoominfo

AUGUST 3, 2022

All too often, marketing budgets are the first to be scaled back. We surveyed nearly 250 marketers , and while 59% of respondents said they either were not adjusting their budgets or weren’t making significant changes, almost 40% said they were cutting back on marketing spend in anticipation of a recession.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Advertising Advertising 130

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Author: Brandon Brown Today, most marketers and salespeople agree that we need to build relationships with our customers. But many of those same marketers and salespeople are implementing old-school marketing tactics that bombard consumers with unwanted ads and clickbait. Two words: influencer marketing.

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Influencer Marketing How To Face-to-face 194

Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2022

Billions of dollars have been invested in software promising to transform how sales and marketing teams reach new audiences. Sales and marketing tech stacks have swollen, with dozens of conflicting tools promising greater efficiency, accelerated growth, and higher revenue. We call this Go-to-Market operations, or simply, GTM Ops.

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Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Marketing Face-to-face 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

There’s little we do in the world of B2B marketing that doesn’t involve thorough planning. And How Can They Help Marketers? How to Build Marketing Personas Marketers can use buyer personas to build content strategies that speak directly to their targeted audience, and therefore build trust and reliability with customers.

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Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Marketing How To 130

eGrabber

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In the world of sales and marketing, prospecting lists are the backbone of any successful campaign. But what exactly is a prospecting list, and how can you build one that yields the best results? What is a Prospecting List? 50+ Ways to Build Prospecting Lists in no Time! Let’s dive in. Try for Free!

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Trade Show How To 59

Sales 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2024

For many, this means learning new skills and processes—no more relying on a sales development team or their marketing department for all their leads. This allows them to approach prospects as a true consultant with value to bring to every conversation.

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Lead Rank Fashion Cold Calling Call-back 195

Selling Energy

JANUARY 6, 2023

For years, marketing techniques have been moved online. If you aren’t using language that resonates with your prospects or addressing issues in their industry, you aren’t going to set yourself apart from the competition.

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Marketing Segment Energy Competition 52

Zoominfo

MAY 31, 2022

Total Addressable or Available Market, also referred to as TAM, is a monetary value that represents all of the selling opportunities for your organization. Though your TAM can be produced with a simple formula, calculating it requires market research and accurate data. What is a Total Addressable Market? Highlights What is TAM?

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Analysis Marketing Vendor How To 130

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 27, 2018

You may plow ahead by setting up a meeting with a prospective customer, then spend hours putting together the perfect pitch, only to find out your information was off base, and the customer isn’t ready to buy, or has little need for what you’re selling. . How did your source get their information? Check Your Biases. Explore Existing Tools.

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Prospecting Decision Maker How To Social Media 185

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Think about it: Traditional sales software applications have long since been deployed in streamlining daily tasks associated with prospecting and pipeline management. What’s more, these platforms incorporated the use of B2B contact and company intelligence to help identify, connect with and close the right prospects, at the right time.

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Sales Automation Prospecting Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead 162

Selling Energy

JULY 28, 2023

If you’re meeting resistance while pitching an energy solution , try stepping into your prospect’s shoes for a moment. Remember, you’re not just selling to a company; you’re selling to one or more individuals within that company, each of which has a specific role and specific interests that you need to understand.

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Prospecting Energy Up-Sell Meeting 79

The Pipeline

MAY 18, 2017

Sellers are a wonderfully optimistic lot, having drank the Kool Aid about their “solution”, believing that they are indeed the cavalry coming over the hill to heal all that pains their potential prospects. That however is not the reality of a prospecting call, or dare I say, cold call; enthusiasm is not enough, in fact can be your undoing.

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Prospecting Infusion Cold Calling Demographics 205

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Table of Contents How can Sales and Marketing collaborate? Let’s take a closer look with some examples: Product datasheets.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 99

Selling Energy

JANUARY 3, 2023

As energy sales professionals, we’re often faced with situations in which prospects get hung up on the cost of the project. In some cases, they even try to low-ball us by mentioning bids from lower-cost vendors.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Vendor Energy 68

Selling Energy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The more benefits you can come up with in each of these categories, the more value your offering has (and hence, the more likely your prospect will approve the project).

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Benefit Energy Proposal Up-Sell 80

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But, thanks to technological advancements, predicting customer behavior has become a reality—and it’s changed the face of marketing forever. Predictive intelligence and machine learning may sound like futuristic concepts, but they’ve already made a massive impact in the marketing world. Let’s get into it! The best part?

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2B Marketing 189

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Managers of sales and marketing teams are charged with coaching up individual team members, enhancing their skill sets and improving overall team performance. Get them proficient with more marketing technologies? Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and But where to begin?

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Marketing Telemarketing Scale Education 226

Nutshell

JULY 22, 2020

Sales and marketing professionals are constantly slinging around new buzzwords, complex terms, and confusing abbreviations. Well, here’s another important term for you to memorize: the marketing flywheel. Well, here’s another important term for you to memorize: the marketing flywheel. What Is a Marketing Flywheel?

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Marketing Churn 119

eGrabber

MAY 21, 2020

For companies who are currently driving their sales and marketing thru COVID, prospecting to outdated lists drains morale like nothing else. Marketing to lists & people who don’t exist, getting email bounces and dropped phone calls drain the precious energy which sales and marketing teams badly need at this point in time.

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Energy B2B Hiring Decision Maker 52

eGrabber

MAY 21, 2020

For companies who are currently driving their sales and marketing thru COVID, prospecting to outdated lists drains morale like nothing else. Marketing to lists & people who don’t exist, getting email bounces and dropped phone calls drain the precious energy which sales and marketing teams badly need at this point in time.

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Energy B2B Hiring Decision Maker 52

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 9, 2018

From industry events, to blog posts, B2B professionals can’t stop talking about this trending topic and its potential to revolutionize marketing. In today’s post, we’ll take a further look into the concept of AI and see how this new technology can have a real impact on your marketing strategy. Simplified Prospecting.

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Ideal Customer Profile Marketing B2B Consumer 113

Rob Jolles

JULY 28, 2023

Here’s a quick quiz: Which prospect would you prefer meeting with? Prospect #1: Someone who has been battling with a particular problem, has finally decided to do something about it, and calls you! I’m pretty sure I know which prospect you’d pick. Well… you might want to be careful what prospect you wish for.

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Prospecting Call-back Up-Sell Face-to-face 52

Rob Jolles

JULY 28, 2023

Here’s a quick quiz: Which prospect would you prefer meeting with? Prospect #1: Someone who has been battling with a particular problem, has finally decided to do something about it, and calls you! I’m pretty sure I know which prospect you’d pick. Well… you might want to be careful what prospect you wish for.

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Prospecting Call-back Up-Sell Face-to-face 52

DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. Before we dive in, let’s take a quick look at the most-prospected-to industries. FinancialServices. Insurance.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

Nutshell

OCTOBER 5, 2020

As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our everyday lives, marketing efforts have shifted accordingly. Marketing through the digital medium is highly effective, but the barrier to entry is lower than ever. In the story of marketing, you’re not the hero, the client is. Layton Cox , Marketing Consultant.

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Conversion Marketing Campaigns Hotels 133

Crunchbase

MAY 11, 2023

As it’s become easier to connect with people over video chat and more common for employees to work from home, video prospecting has emerged as an invaluable strategy for sales teams. By using video to engage with prospects, you can make your outreach more personalized, showcase your product in new ways and stand out from the competition.

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Account Based Marketing Video Prospecting Top of Funnel 52

Selling Energy

JANUARY 3, 2023

As energy sales professionals, we’re often faced with situations in which prospects get hung up on the cost of the project. In some cases, they even try to low-ball us by mentioning bids from lower-cost vendors.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Vendor Energy 52

Zoominfo

JUNE 4, 2019

When it comes to B2B marketing tactics, no strategy has stood the test of time quite like the trade show. A recent survey done by the Content Marketing Institute shows 75% of respondents believe in-person events are an effective marketing tactic. Unfortunately, trade shows are expensive and time-consuming.

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Trade Show Marketing Social Media Lead Rank 187

Selling Energy

APRIL 2, 2021

For years, marketing techniques have been moved online. If you aren’t using language that resonates with your prospects or addressing issues in their industry, you aren’t going to set yourself apart from the competition.

Marketing 52

Marketing Segment Energy Competition 52

criteria for success

JULY 8, 2021

Are you struggling to make headway with indecisive prospects? When working with indecisive prospects, it can be extremely difficult to move forward in your selling process. The 5 following approaches can be your solution for dealing with indecisive prospects without seeming desperate and pushy. We can help! Follow through.

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Prospecting How To Guidelines Webinar Metrics 98

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s no secret, data has revolutionized marketing. Where marketers once relied on instinct, they now rely on insights gleaned from careful data analysis. Here on the ZoomInfo blog, we’ve laid out the benefits of data-driven marketing time and time again. Right-brained marketers create exceptional, unique content.

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Buyer Persona Marketing Analysis Advertising 100

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

If prospects don’t fit your Ideal Customer Profile, they shouldn’t become leads. But that doesn’t stop a lot of sales and marketing professionals from pursuing any and all hand-raisers, regardless how poorly suited they are. In short, the first rule of account-based marketing is : know your target accounts.

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Account Based Marketing Lead Rank Ideal Customer Profile Account 145

The Pipeline

APRIL 4, 2016

As we start a new quarter, it makes sense to step back a second and think about how you are prospecting f. Falling to align the effort and approach to each segment can lose you sales, or almost worse, have you spend more time and energy closing sales with a longer sales cycle than necessary. Then start it all again.

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Segment Prospecting Groups Energy 120

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

For B2B sales and marketing teams, having a 360-degree view of customers and prospects is key. Industry classification remains a foundational component to achieving ABM (account-based marketing) success. 335929 Other Communication & Energy Wire Manufacturing. 425110 Business to Business Electronic Markets.

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Transportation Chemicals Automotive Marketing 204

SocialSellinator

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Between invoicing customers, acquiring new leads, and managing your staff members marketing your business is a challenge that requires time and energy. With social media marketing networks, such as Facebook, and Snapchat, you can get that extra boost for your marketing department. So, where do you find that extra push?

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Paid Content Small Business Small Business Facebook 145

Smooth Sale

MARCH 9, 2024

From eco amenities to cutting-edge home systems, being aware of these trends can help you stand out in the market and begin the journey associated with listing your luxury beachfront home. Buyers have a growing preference for properties that prioritize energy efficiency to minimize their carbon footprint.

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