Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. The most important part of prospecting isn’t simply finding names and emails — it’s the time and effort spent identifying potential customers and making sure that they’re actually a good fit. It’s also known as “cold outreach.”)

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Ideal Customer Profile Closing Prospecting Intent Data 98

Crunchbase

APRIL 11, 2023

Prospecting is the process of researching and pursuing potential customers for your business. The most important part of prospecting isn’t simply finding names and emails — it’s the time and effort spent identifying potential customers and making sure that they’re actually a good fit. It’s also known as “cold outreach.”)

Ideal Customer Profile 98

Ideal Customer Profile Closing Prospecting Intent Data 98

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 3, 2013

as they hop on the social media bandwagon makes for a crowded ride. Not only do salespeople need training on how to use the platforms, but also they need to understand how the various platforms fit, and they also need to know how to adapt their communication approach and behavior when engaging a prospect. Everyone yelling, “Me, too!”

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Social Media Social Selling Media InsideView 271

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 22, 2019

It is a crucial data point for many common sales and marketing activities: segmentation, lead routing, outbound outreach, territory planning, and more. At international companies, other social media networks, like XING , are more prevalent than LinkedIn. The larger the company, the larger the budget (usually). International companies.

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Social Media Media LinkedIn Data 179

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. ITServices.

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Company Prospecting Oracle Transportation 156

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

These could be industry changes, a new funding round announcement, a merger, or a prospect getting a new role. If you contact a prospect right after they buy an expensive competitive product, they're not going to bite. Set up alerts for prospect names or business names and get notified whenever they are mentioned in news on the web.

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Social Media Google Hiring How To 104

SBI

JANUARY 31, 2020

TechTarget Priority Engine Email Alerts Help Sales Teams Take Immediate Action on the Best Opportunities in Their Territory. According to recent research , companies that target active prospects with timely, relevant outreach can generate twice as many opportunities. Media Contact. Garrett Mann. 617-431-9371.

Engineering 74

Engineering Territories Opportunity Intent 74

The Brooks Group

JANUARY 5, 2020

Your sales team’s success depends on effective prospecting, and effective prospecting depends on effective prospect planning. Help your salespeople fill their pipelines with qualified prospects that lead to more sales, using these 8 steps. Define Your Ideal Prospect and Qualification Criteria. Clarify Messaging .

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Top of Funnel Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Territories 69

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2019

You've spent hours prospecting : researching, making warm calls , reaching out via email and on social media. If you have prospects who are dragging their feet or slowing a deal down, you might be working with a tire kicker. So, how can separate these tire kickers from well-qualified prospects? Sound familiar?

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Prospecting Strategy Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 123

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

Typically, these professionals are tasked with identifying and qualifying potential leads and initiating contact with prospects. BDRs typically make 17 attempts per contact (distributed between social media, phone calls, and emails). One such strategy involves the use of Business Development Representatives (BDRs).

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Outsourcing Services B2B Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 62

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 25, 2013

I just read Chris Brogan’s piece, The Bare Truth About Social Media , a phrase leaped out at me==how we are “weaponizing” social media. It seems we are at war and social media tools are becoming weapons of mass distraction. Social media works, just as the phone, mail, email, and other traditional channels.

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Social Media Media Direct Mail Channels 92

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 26, 2018

How to Find Prospects. Prospecting can be tedious and time-consuming, but it’s something that has to be done to keep pipelines healthy. However, while sales reps can’t avoid prospecting, they can certainly make it easier for themselves. Where Do Salespeople Find Prospects? Job Boards. Twitter Searches. Business Journals.

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Prospecting Hiring Journal Territories 78

MTD Sales Training

JUNE 20, 2018

Here are a few tips: Divide your territory in a way that makes sense. One of the first steps to effective territory management is to have a concrete view of current customers, potential customers, competitors’ activity, and the location of all of these. Some examples are: ‘Friends’ within the customer/prospect.

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Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead Territories 120

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). What Is Prospecting? What's the difference between leads and prospects? Sales Prospecting Techniques.

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Prospecting Tools Top of Funnel Lead Rank 142

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Buying Process , Demand Generation , Lead Management , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Technique , Sales Tip , Video , execution. Set a schedule to call all the prospects that went to no decision over the last 12 months.

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Pipeline Prospecting Sales Qualified Lead Demand Generation 216

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Successful Strategies for Prospecting – Roundtable. Stored in Attitude , Buying Process , Cold calling , Communication Strategy , EDGE Selling , Gap Selling , Interactive Selling , Planning , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales Strategy , Sales Tip , Success. The question is: What should one’s sales prospecting strategy be?

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Webinar Metrics Pipeline Strategy Prospecting 193

The Pipeline

MARCH 30, 2011

Prospecting – When Is The Best Time? Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Cold calling , Proactivity , Productivity , Prospecting , Time Allocation , Video , execution. Last week I talked about prospecting, why some like it when most don’t, rejection, and managing them. Prospecting. Social media.

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Pipeline Prospecting Cold Calling Sales Qualified Lead 222

The Pipeline

MAY 4, 2011

Prospecting With E-Mail. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication Strategy , Proactive , Prospecting , Sales 2.0 , Sales Tool , Sell Better , Success , Video , e-mail , execution. Last week we looked at means of leveraging voice mail in prospecting. The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Tibor Shanto.

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Pipeline Prospecting Twitter Cold Calling 216

Sales 2.0

JUNE 9, 2018

Congrats you have a brand-new “greenfield” sales territory! Of course, with all these social media networks out there now it’s not six degrees any more. My suggestion when you’re dropped into the desert (sorry “greenfield territory”) look for some of those 22,500 people that are willing to help you. Let me translate.

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Territories Demographics Social Media Cold Calling 150

Engage Selling

APRIL 6, 2019

No matter who you are in sales—whether you’re managing a team or selling in a territory—you know you need to go where the customers are. If I met you at a conference and I told you that all of your … Read More »

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Social Media Media Territories Conference 48

Apptivo

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Lead Capturing Email, website, social media, webinars, and paid ads are all ways to reach out to potential buyers during lead generation activities. A good lead management software ensures that every lead from web forms, emails, and chat is automatically fed into the CRM system, preventing prospects from falling through the cracks.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Lead Management System 103

BrainShark

AUGUST 24, 2022

Prospecting. Territory Management. It includes: Writing and presentation abilities, which are needed when interacting over email, social media, video conference, or in-person. Prospecting. Unfortunately, we’ve all experienced poor sales prospecting. Essential Sales Skills Every Rep Should Have. Communication.

Social Media 62

Social Media Territories Face-to-face Negotiation 62

The Pipeline

JUNE 3, 2011

5 Ways to Boost Your Email Prospecting Response Rate. Prospecting via email can be wildly rewarding, or incredibly frustrating. In fact, we’ve coached clients through a number of simple steps that have helped them double or triple their prospecting email response rates virtually overnight. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008.

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Pipeline Prospecting Twitter B2B 286

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , Metrics , Productivity , Sales Success , Territory Alignment , execution. By shrinking your territories, strategically where it make sense. logically shrink territories. logically shrink territories. Not all sales people have the same skills.

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Pipeline Territories Harvest Cold Calling 212

The Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In the race to finish the year strong, prospecting often gets put on the back burner while sales reps spend time and energy on closing the open business opportunities they’re working. But salespeople need to be able to fill the pipeline with highly qualified prospects in order to be successful going into the New Year. Social Media.

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Prospecting Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Referrals 63

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Setting Quotas, territory structures, headcounts and total compensation budgets are examples. Increased use of blogs, video, webcasts and social media are aimed at the new buyer. Are your territories designed to maximize time with customers and prospects? If that covers most of your plan’s components, you better catch up.

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Buyer Persona Territories Compensation Buyer 310

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Social media present powerful tools and capabilities. We want to grow our lists, reach, and prospects. In that rush to build visibility and market ourselves and our companies, we start getting into dangerous territory. Related Posts: The Weaponization Of Social Media What’s All This About Social Selling?

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Social Media Media Networking Follow-up 88

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2019

Many advocate building a massive social media presence–doing everything one can by increasing your presence in places like LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and other social channels. ” It’s our customers, prospects, colleagues. Most every sales person I know has some sort of defined “territory.”

Territories 62

Territories Hiring Face-to-face Social Media 62

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2019

Throw out the “that’s the way we’ve always done it” stories and use data to get a clearer lens on your territories. Put on your science hat and ask some questions about your territories: How well did a particular message fly with each audience? Marketers find insights in the data because they look for it. So can sales managers.

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Sales Management Marketing Territories Segment 120

SBI

MAY 7, 2014

Announcing the Top 40 Sales Tools of 2014 - a multi-media guide that brings you up to speed on the best tools to increase sale productivity. Power Prospecting. Territory & Account Planning. I know it doesn’t help that there are thousands of applications to pick from. Performance and Compensation. Quoting & Pricing.

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Sales Tools Tools Revenue InsideSales 139

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 2, 2024

And this often begins with prospecting. However, a Janek survey revealed 18% of sales leaders do not have set prospecting metrics. In addition, 32% don’t know how much time reps prospect. Plus, 59% of companies sell more from social media compared to previous years. This is a missed opportunity.

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Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy Analysis 62

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It addresses how sales representatives engage with prospects, close deals, and meet revenue targets. Components Sales Plan: Includes sales tactics, prospecting strategies, target setting, and customer relationship management (CRM) activities. Social media strategy, content marketing plan, email marketing, advertising channels, etc.

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing 52

Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It addresses how sales representatives engage with prospects, close deals, and meet revenue targets. Components Sales Plan: Includes sales tactics, prospecting strategies, target setting, and customer relationship management (CRM) activities. Social media strategy, content marketing plan, email marketing, advertising channels, etc.

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing 52

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

You know I have never read an article or a post that was written by an advocate of cold calling, suggesting that social selling is bad, ridiculing people who use the practice to engage with prospects, suggest that it is inadequate, or about to die. of social sellers have closed 5 or more deals attributed to social media.” Kumbaya Time.

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Cold Calling Social Media Decision Maker Lead Rank 292

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Thankfully, there are tactics you can use to encourage buy-in from your prospects. Wittman encourages salespeople to find common ground with their prospects. Acknowledge that it’s a no for now, but try to guide the prospect to agree to the product's value. When there’s more budget, perhaps the prospect will return.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Real Estate 100

Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2018

Every business runs like a B2B sales prospecting operation. You head out to a territory (market) where you can mine (generate) something valuable, then sift (qualify) good finds from the bad. Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Why B2B Sales Prospecting Needs More Attention Than You Think.

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B2B Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 87

Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Whether you manage a specific territory, customer account, or service, there is likely a segment of your company’s business that you are responsible for when it comes to generating revenue. Think of a small business owner you know or a business influencer you follow on social media. Why Salespeople Should Think Like Entrepreneurs.

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Territories Demographics Sales Cycle Social Media 112