Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Author: Sean Gordon The rollercoaster of the past year has forced companies to drastically alter their operations, all with their employees, customers and prospects in mind. So, how will we see video continue to evolve in 2021, and how can marketing and sales teams best use it to their advantage? Brands Will Create TikTok-eque Videos.

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Sales 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The biggest challenge facing most sales people and small business owners is getting meetings with prospective clients. Cold prospecting techniques get harder-and-harder every day. Develop your relationships with other sales people or other small business owners that serve similar markets to you. They do not trust you.

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Mr. Inside Sales

AUGUST 21, 2022

He was making one crucial error that was leading to him not getting very far with prospects. I want to share with you what this common prospecting error is and how to immediately fix it. If you could wave a magic wand and change two things about your online marketing, what would they be?”. Wait and respond accordingly—engage!].

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Prospecting Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling 156

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ask any group of salespeople why they don’t like telephone prospecting, objections or rejections are number one on the list. While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different. The people without needs or problems, which is most of the market, will think and answer no.

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Objections Prospecting Fashion Face-to-face 339

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

To better understand the challenges and opportunities facing our customers and their businesses, we surveyed thousands of ZoomInfo users. GTM Plays Automated go-to-market plays that can rapidly scale your business. GTM Plays Automated go-to-market plays that can rapidly scale your business.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is the strategy of leveraging 1:1 engagement between you and your customer in the form of real-time conversations. Problem #2: Pushy marketing.

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Conversion Marketing Lead Capture Face-to-face 246

Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Then Google REALLY started marketing! This week ask yourself: Are you following AT&T’s marketing efforts? Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? A few months ago, both AT&T, and then Google Fiber, dug up our street and lawns and bushes to install fiber Internet cable. Or Google Fibers?

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It’s the only way to learn about the challenges your customers face, and find out what kind of features they need from you. Meeting people face-to-face was a valuable experience. It just makes prospecting so much easier in every respect,” Castro says. ZoomInfo saves me so much time,” Castro says.

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Prospecting Hiring Face-to-face Intent Data 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Daily, sales reps (mostly SDRs) face the daunting task of turning cold calls into warm calls. Be upfront and transparent with your prospects. Consider these following tips to get more success in your cold calls — before, during, and afterward: Do: Research your prospect (Who are they? Now comes the hard part — the cold call.

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Cold Calling Guidelines Prospecting Face-to-face 264

Pipeliner

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It is also because these businesses have to follow stringent regulations, especially in marketing. If you want to leverage your marketing skills in the Life Sciences industry, here are eight common challenges that you need to overcome: Marketing Complex Products and Services in a Compelling Way.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? In fact, over 20% of marketers in a HubSpot survey say that personalization improves their engagement.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing Campaigns 262

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 4, 2019

He told me that he was reaching and having brief conversations with some prospects but those conversations went nowhere. He said he was trying to be consultative, to elicit details and to drill down on prospect objections. But no matter what he said or did, he would hear, “I’m not interested,” and a click as the prospect hung up.

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Consultative Selling Prospecting Cold Calling Face-to-face 254

Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 30, 2023

Problem: Salespeople talk too much when they finally get a prospect on the phone. They talk over their prospects and generally learn very little about what it takes to close a sale. Then hit MUTE again and listen as your prospect reveals more. Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day?

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Sales Qualified Lead Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker 212

Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? Sure, it’s a problem, but your company is doing well.

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Top of Funnel Marketing How To Funnel 301

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. There, we looked at key indicators to assess before passing prospects to sales. Now, we’ll go further and explore strategies and best practices for improving prospect qualification. And, if so, is the prospect worth your time and effort?

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Lead Rank B2B Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 62

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. Most likely, though, they use prospecting insights to reach their sales goals. Most likely, though, they use prospecting insights to reach their sales goals. What are prospecting insights?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Here’s the thing though, reps need actionable techniques and tips to make their prospecting systematic, smooth, and, of course, profitable. What are Prospecting Techniques? Commit to a Prospecting Schedule.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Cold Calling Decision Maker 264

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In 2020, like most businesses around the world, AGL found itself facing a pandemic crossroads. Almost overnight, AGL’s business was faced with perilous uncertainty. Most people don’t give much thought to how all those boxes of copy paper make their way to the warehouses and shelves of their local retailers. billion to about $40.9

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Face-to-face Scale 100

Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 2, 2023

In fact, this is also felt in the accounting department, the marketing department, and everywhere else. As you speak with your clients and prospects this week, realize that they are all feeling the same stress as well. The point is to ask questions and LISTEN to your prospect’s needs. Welcome back to the office, how do you feel?

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Face-to-face Gatekeeper Decision Maker Licensing 223

Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Marketing and Do It! Through asking penetrating questions and providing valuable resources, consultants and salespeople can establish themselves as experts and earn the right to have pivotal conversations with their top prospects. Target a specific market instead of trying to target everyone. Stay put or go out and do something.

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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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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

APRIL 20, 2022

Marketers have spent years making sure they get credit for the leads generated by their hardworking teams. Instead, B2B marketers are turning their attention to key performance indicators that showcase how full-funnel marketing efforts can deliver increased performance. In 2020, that figure was down to 47%.

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Account Based Marketing Marketing Lead Rank Top of Funnel 130

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sales and marketing teams have been slashed, and pipelines are running dry. Small Businesses Face the Biggest Challenges. Many companies will need to make drastic changes to overcome the challenges they face. Many companies will need to make drastic changes to overcome the challenges they face. During the period of Feb.

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Small Business Small Business Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 317

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 14, 2022

Some observations: This presentation was intended for initial meetings with prospective customers. I hope the presenters were coached to thank the prospect as they closed the presentation. They address some very important challenges their customers face. All professionally done, great pictures, etc. But it was all wrong!

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Prospecting Face-to-face Buying Cycle Meeting 80

The Pipeline

JANUARY 22, 2019

People will tell you that the number one reason sellers do not like to prospect, specifically telephone prospecting, is rejection. Look at it as an opportunity to educate the prospect or correct a misunderstanding they have, or highlight a blind spot they hadn’t considered. You are the Subject Matter Expert after all.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 24, 2020

I don’t mean to be insensitive to the challenges we all face in dealing with the COVID 19 pandemic. They are facing circumstances they have never faced before. But while we face an opportunity rich environment, we need to be very focused and selective with those we prospect.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 6, 2022

Prospect research is a challenge that's every bit as frustrating as it is essential — so to help you out, we've put together a list of 18 of the best places to research buyers before sales conversations. If you decide to leverage LinkedIn to guide or support your prospect research efforts, there are some key steps you should follow.

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Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I get the chance to preview dozens of books on sales, marketing and business. The Wentworth Prospect by John Smibert, Wayne Moloney, and Jeff Clulow is stunning! As with many stories, she face adversity, challenges. As I read the story, I could reflect back on similar situations I have faced. I hope you enjoy it.

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Prospecting Face-to-face Up-Sell Relationals 81

Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2022

In an ideal world, B2B revenue teams would run with lightning-fast lead response times, streamlined operations, and an aligned sales and marketing team. A sales funnel powered by volume and velocity is vital to stay competitive in today’s market. Inefficient integrations Every go-to-market team has something that makes it unique.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 130

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Was just reading yet another post with “market data” declaring prospecting the most difficult aspect of sales. Thousands of blog posts about both the difficulty and importance of prospecting have been published in the past 5-7 years. We know prospecting is important, but we don’t do it on a regular basis.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Pipeline 163

BuzzBoard

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In the world of SMB marketing, every click, nudge, and interaction counts towards success. With technological advancements, shifting consumer behaviors, and the ever-evolving digital ecosystem, the playbook for success in SMB marketing is being rewritten at a breathtaking pace. At present, this world is in a constant state of flux.

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Trends Lead Rank Lead Scoring Social Media 105

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 15, 2024

Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. But as with any other skill, some salespeople have a better grip on prospecting than others — and we, here at the HubSpot Sales Blog, want to do our part to make sure you prospect as effectively as possible.

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Hiring Face-to-face Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 111

Mindtickle

JULY 29, 2019

Sales and service organizations are facing a perfect storm on many fronts and company representatives that are not equipped to handle complex buyer needs and competitive challenges are being left behind. This round brings Mindtickle’s total raised to more than $81 million. For additional information: Read CEO Krishna Depura’s blog post.

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Alice Heiman

APRIL 15, 2020

A month ago, you knew what to say when you picked up the phone or composed an email to prospect s. You knew your ideal customer profile, your target market, and your value propositions. You had all the tools you needed to prospect efficiently and effectively. . The New Reality of Prospecting .

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting How To Face-to-face 166

BuzzBoard

MARCH 14, 2024

An Overview of Common Digital Marketing Challenges Small Businesses Face Sales teams in digital marketing agencies frequently face a common set of challenges when selling solutions to small businesses. According to Google, only 37% of small businesses employ digital marketing to sustain their operations online.

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