DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Hyper-personalized cold emails are a main tenant of account-based sales approach (related to Account-Based Marketing, or ABM.). If you don’t have their direct-dial phone number, you could plan to spend a lot of time negotiating with admins and other gatekeepers, or pressing buttons to navigate the phone tree. In that case, walk away.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In this context, I’m referring to companies that sell their products and services directly to their customer base rather than selling through retail or other sales channels (distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators, and so on). Are you looking for someone to bring in new business, sometimes referred to as a “hunter”?

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Women Sales Pros

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

They’re the same habits that may be keeping you from getting past gatekeepers or closing more first appointments. You have to be able to address prospecting objections from gatekeepers through decision makers. Ask for a referral to the right contact, then call and reference your initial call as an introduction. That’s simple!

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 23, 2018

In doing so, you become a trusted resource —exactly the kind of salesperson people want to work with, and want to refer. You’re jeopardizing your relationship by assuming the other person even wants to refer you. Most people only refer others they trust. Check out my new referral sales training course on LinkedIn Learning.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2019

If you only had 90 days to penetrate the market and produce sales, what would you do? While you could come up with a complicated plan that won’t deliver results for half a year or more, you can get better results, faster, by implementing a DRIP Marketing Plan. DRIP: The Secret to Reliably Penetrate the Market.

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criteria for success

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For this week's blog post, I sat down with our CEO and Founder, Charles Bernard, to discuss why old school hunting in sales outreach doesn't work in today's market, and what new school outreach asks of salespeople and leaders. So why do you have to talk to a gatekeeper who's just there to say they don't have an answer?

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Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2020

When You’re Using an Account-Based Strategy Hyper-personalized cold emails are the main tenant of account-based sales approach (related to account-based marketing , or ABM). Check Out ZoomInfo’s Tips for Outreach Texting How To Write A BASHO Cold Email (With Examples) Like many B2B companies, ZoomInfo has such a wide total addressable market.

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Sales Training Advice

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

” * “The other secret to getting that top executive on the telephone is to send the gatekeeper back as many times as you can, each time giving very little information.” He advocates sending the gatekeeper back so many times that the CEO finally gets fed up and tells her to put the call through. Assistant: Yes.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Don't just install it, train your people on it thoroughly, weekly and quarterly. Think of Twitter as the spokes, the amplification that used to be encapsulated as Direct Response Marketing or e-mail blasts. When I train sales people I train them to execute. The folly of Sales 2.0 It's Google Glass.

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Sales Training Advice

JULY 14, 2012

You interrupt the person, they don’t expect your call, and they might not even believe that the person you mentioned actually referred you. CEO, VP, IT, Marketing). * by Richard Fenton Gatekeepers By Sharon Drew Morgen TheTop 10 Reasons Why Salespeople Get Outsold By Dave Stein. Yes, a cold call.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. AB Testing (or Split Testing) is an experiment involving two variants, usually for measuring and comparing market response to each. Accounts Payable refers to an accounting entry denoting the amount of short-term monetary obligation your company owes its suppliers, vendors and other service providers.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

When sales teams know how to ask for referrals, they don’t have to worry about identifying decision-makers, bypassing gatekeepers, or proving themselves trustworthy. In fact, 87 percent of frontline sales reps and 82 percent of sales leaders agree that referrals are their best leads , according to an Influitive/Heinz Marketing survey.

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No More Cold Calling

JUNE 23, 2019

When sales teams know how to ask for referrals, they don’t have to worry about identifying decision-makers, bypassing gatekeepers, or proving themselves trustworthy. In fact, 87 percent of frontline sales reps and 82 percent of sales leaders agree that referrals are their best leads , according to an Influitive/Heinz Marketing survey.

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OnePageCRM

MAY 25, 2017

In episode 24 of the I Love Marketing Podcast , Dean Jackson introduced a game-changer concept of More Cheese, Less Whiskers. In a previous company I worked with, the marketing team or SDR team would begin reaching out with a sequence of cold emails. How to get past gatekeepers. How does your schedule look this week?

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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.” Gatekeeper. In B2B outbound marketing, cold calling is a prospecting technique used to start business conversations with decision-makers over the phone. How is cold calling still viable? Making A Cold Call.

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Tenbound

JANUARY 3, 2024

Chapter 2: Developing an Ideal Account Profile The Ideal Account Profile (IAP) includes the identification of the most desirable prospect companies to contact based on market segmentation. 2- “design and deliver high-impact sales training programs” 3- “Manage a network of external training partners.” Planning: (For whom?;

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

80/20 Sales and Marketing. This one happens to be the one I’ve referred to the most. Contrary to popular sales training, you don’t have to make presentations to everyone who will listen. It is a classic book you’ll reference throughout your career. Money: Master the Game. The Sketchnote Handbook. Extreme Ownership.

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 26, 2020

A C-level executive refers to a high-ranking representative in an organization who usually makes decisions that affect the entire business. C-suite also refers to the collective. CMO (Chief Marketing Officer). How much staff training needs to be factored in initially as well as considerations around the customer journey.

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Cience

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

According to AdStage , 68% of B2B marketers use in-person events for lead generation initiatives. CIENCE marketing managers are among that 68%. And the reason behind this growth is that B2B marketers know how to leverage events for lead generation. Okay, 68% of marketers use events for lead generation. That is a given.

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LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Who currently have job openings for marketing help. A gatekeeper is usually a person who has to procure products or services for others in their organization, but they dont actually have ownership over solving that problem themselves. Who currently have job openings for marketing help. With the role of HR Manager.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 13, 2018

These 25 solutions form the bedrock to proven sustainable results with advanced social selling injected as a force multiplier: Move from push to pull marketing. While the whole world is blasting out white noise, start to leverage 'attraction' marketing and pull your dream customers to you. Flip the script. May the 'first in' win!

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