Crunchbase

MAY 19, 2023

From identifying potential customers, to finding quality leads and maintaining a healthy pipeline, sales prospecting is vital to the success of your business. Successful prospecting requires time management skills, a proactive mindset and the ability to communicate effectively. That’s not to say it’s without its challenges, however.

Ideal Customer Profile 59

Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring 59

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Effectiveness : AI-driven sales guidance can proactively identify and prioritize new opportunities. It can improve effectiveness by suggesting an optimal path to deal closure, and it can provide detailed guidance for approaching each prospect. AI can schedule calls and meetings, generate meeting notes and outline action steps.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Author: Rachel Krug Leads are the lifeblood of your business, yet, more often than not, leads fall outside the category of “sales ready” opportunities. According to SalesForce , nurturing leads generates a 20% increase in sales opportunities and takes as little as 15 minutes per day. Speed Wins. Respect their journey.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 204

SalesHandy

MAY 1, 2020

While moving through the sales cycle, sales prospecting comes as its first step and is considered as an essential part. From the famous quote “ Sales prospecting is where the salesperson makes their money. ”, you can easily understand how essential it is for any salesperson to learn the best sales prospecting techniques.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Top of Funnel Decision Maker 87

Groove.co

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Manually entering data into Salesforce is — to put it simply — incredibly tedious. There is, and it comes in the form of a sales engagement platform, which helps automate Salesforce data entry and so much more. In other words: SEPs can significantly improve how your sales and revenue teams interact with prospects and customers.

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SalesForce Data ROI Analytics 26

Sales Hacker

JUNE 14, 2019

In an ideal world, 100% of your data ends up in Salesforce (or your CRM of choice). According to a recent Salesforce study , poor data hygiene costs the average business nearly 30% of its revenue, amounting to a total economic loss of a whopping $700 billion a year. But sadly, that’s not what’s happening in the real world.

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Data Closing Prospecting Incentives 68

Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2020

It doesn’t matter what company you work for; what stage you’re at in your sales career; or whether you prefer to use emails, phone calls, or LinkedIn messages when you’re prospecting — the biggest problem that all sales and customer success reps struggle with is still the same: ensuring your ideal prospects convert. Think about it.

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Pipeline Prospecting How To Ideal Customer Profile 91

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 25, 2017

It should reduce time spent prospecting; offer sales development reps (SDRs) an opportunity for smart expansion into new markets; let sales reps identify the 3% of any industry’s target accounts that are active buyers … and a whole lot more. Triggers help sellers recognize these opportunities. Do you have any case studies?

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Account Based Marketing Case Study Data Campaigns 241

Groove.co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Sales engagement platforms (SEPs) are known for increasing the productivity and effectiveness of sales and customer-facing teams, but they also play an essential role in helping organizations increase the adoption and value of Salesforce?. Salesforce-native sales engagement platforms include: Groove, Salesforce High Velocity Sales.

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SalesForce Benefit Lead Rank Lead Scoring 26

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? Goal: Turn Opportunities Into Customers.

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Prospecting Tools Top of Funnel Lead Rank 144

Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2022

ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck recently walked our customer advisory board through how we use technology to “turn a visitor into a lead, a lead into an opportunity, and ultimately, an opportunity into a customer.” Experiment to see what works best for your organization and customer base. Free Trial 2.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 100

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2020

I hate to break it to you, but prospects in your target accounts have the same reaction to your sales messages. In this article, we’ll explore how this reaction impacts your bottom-line results, and then I’ll dive into an alternative that you may not have considered — direct mail prospecting and gifting. And you’re not alone.

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Direct Mail Prospecting Face-to-face Channels 77

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

These relationships can yield network effects and upsell opportunities that lead to greater revenue down the road. Identify each milestone along the way from prospect to customer and build a playbook. So, maybe you’ve seen some strong ROI data from prospects who engaged with content about Data Visualization and Reporting.

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Account Based Marketing Segment Ideal Customer Profile Account 218

Sales Hacker

MARCH 27, 2018

Every business runs like a B2B sales prospecting operation. From Old West pioneers who sparked the California Gold Rush to entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who use blockchain networks to mine bitcoins, one thing remains constant: You need to prospect continually to break even, make a profit, and grow the business. Brian Tracy.

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B2B Ideal Customer Profile Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 87

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

SiriusDecisions’ 2016 State of Account-Based Marketing Study found that 27 percent of respondents invested between 11 and 30 percent of their total marketing budgets into ABM. Sure, you may need to make a few tweaks here and there depending on the prospect, but most of a campaign remains intact. In the Event of….

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Account Based Marketing Jigsaw Campaigns Account 168

DocSend

JUNE 21, 2022

Identifying warm leads, building meaningful prospect relationships , and managing sales processes can be a lot more challenging in virtual environments than in-person settings. DocSend’s Zapier integration lets reps build automations between the tools they use most – keeping them in the know whenever a prospect has viewed their link. .

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Scale Closing Collateral Top of Funnel 88

Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The prospect is not returning my calls. It’s an opportunity to get creative and turn things around. Make more calls, send more emails…prospect…prospect…and more prospecting. I find interesting topics and not only listen but study the speaker’s presentation style.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 16, 2022

In today’s environment, it’s getting harder to connect with prospects on a cold call. But COVID has changed the context — instead of an office, your prospects may be answering phone calls from their dining room table or between loads of laundry. Do your prospects still have a commute? Sound familiar? It’s not just you.

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Cold Calling Channels Demand Generation Agencies Call-back 100

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 16, 2017

Lesson #1 : To expand market share, use “what if” analysis to leave your comfort zone and create new opportunities. Case study : Airbnb: For companies that already have a viable product or service, growth hacking can help drive awareness. The most famous example? Airbnb penetrating Craigslist’s marketplace.

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Penetration Case Study Lead Rank Hotels 153

PandaDoc

MARCH 1, 2019

One of the biggest challenges digital marketing agencies face is both generating leads, and then turning prospects into customers. It’s estimated that only 20% of leads are considered legitimate, and only 5-20% of prospects ever convert. So how do digital agencies respond to prospects that say no? Find out what went wrong.

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Prospecting Reachforce Marketing Marketo 80

The Digital Sales Institute

AUGUST 30, 2023

According to a study by HubSpot, active listening is the most important sales skill. It helps build trust and rapport with prospects. This means paying close attention to what your prospect is saying, and not just waiting for your turn to speak. Telling stories helps create an emotional connection with prospects.

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Objections Face-to-face Motivation Hubspot 52

InsightSquared

APRIL 3, 2019

The best sales professionals and marketers understand how important it is to study human psychology and use that knowledge to create stories, messages and strategies that drive results. These are biases that every sales professional or marketer should understand and be willing to leverage when the opportunity arises.

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Advertising Advertising Study Proposal 111

Highspot

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Read on for practical tips to supercharge your sales ops and turn obstacles into opportunities for revenue growth. Failing to keep pace can impact the sales cycle, resulting in missed opportunities and competitive losses. The integration with Salesforce was essential, a fundamental tool for their sales reps.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 29, 2021

According to a Salesforce study , a UK-based company saw a 139% increase in its conversion rate by simply changing their landing page’s headline from “Request a demo” to “Watch a demo now.”. But similarly, some words may break your flow, weaken your pitch, or put your prospects off. Imagine if the prospect says no.

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Hiring Case Study Sales Qualified Lead Study 127

Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2020

You’ve got a script to study. DO: Prospect, It’s Never Too Early. While this might have landed them a few early adopters, the sales strategy needs to evolve quickly to target prospects who have the business pain your product relieves. The key is to find hacks to speed up your product training. Transcribe it, and voila!

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Hiring Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 90

Pointclear

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Series A funding has come from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Salesforce and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Derek notes that Salesforce’s Chatter is used to communicate both externally (customers, suppliers and distributors) and internally (production, engineering, and purchasing).

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Outsourcing Services Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead PointClear 189

DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 5, 2016

This means that our customers have access to the broadest and most accurate data on what the technology install base is at their prospects and customers alike. Where do existing predictive analytics solutions fall short – where are there opportunities for advancement? We hear a lot about Account-Based Marketing and flipping the funnel.

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Ideal Customer Profile Data Account Based Marketing Marketo 120

Nutshell

JULY 23, 2019

A study by IBM found that being able to consolidate sales data was one of the top four most important features that businesses wanted out of a CRM. This report sheds light on your team’s prospecting performance and how successful your marketing is. CRM #5: Salesforce. Who are my highest value prospects?

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Report Forecasting CRM SalesForce 109

eGrabber

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You wouldn’t know who to target, who you contacted and who are really your prospects and so on. Build B2B Contact Lists & Find New Prospects in a Click! Studies reveal that contact data stored in B2B contact database decays at the rate of 22% every year. These errors can make you lose your opportunities.

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B2B Ideal Customer Profile How To Networking 145

Zoominfo

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s true that most sales professionals improve with experience, but if you can provide feedback and personalized goals, it’s possible to accelerate the learning process and get your sellers engaging with prospects faster. Salesforce found that over 81% of sales reps found value from the coaching they received — and want it more frequently.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Hiring Analysis 130

Groove.co

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Thanks to a new study by Beagle Research Group and Oracle , we now know that sellers would rather clean bathrooms and go to the DMV than update their CRM. In fact, less than 20 years ago, Salesforce almost went out of business. Salesforce was almost “No Cloud” as well. Forget “No Software.” LEARN SOMETHING NEW. Congratulations.

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Highspot

MARCH 26, 2024

A Gartner study reveals that 77% of sales organizations use digital tools to boost performance , with 66% using AI for personalized training and coaching. This enables your salesforce to proactively address issues and adjust their strategies accordingly. Why is AI being so rapidly adopted across sales organizations?

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Sales Coaching Coaching Training Exercises 52

SBI

JANUARY 18, 2018

Matt: LeadGnome’s reply email mining service gives Sales a competitive advantage by identifying actionable intelligence that presents an opportunity to connect with the right leads, at the right time, to drive more revenue. Salesforce) – many studies show a whole day is wasted on data entry each week.

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Penetration Account ROI Demand Generation Agencies 114

SalesLoft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Prospecting with B2B sales emails is sort of like asking a Magic 8 Ball. Plus, using a sales engagement platform, like Salesloft , makes it possible for you to scale your email prospecting and craft cold emails that truly have an impact. You are far more likely to get a response if you are adding value for your prospect.

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Construction B2B Case Study Lead Rank 52

Crunchbase

JANUARY 26, 2021

Studies found that around 18 percent of deals took more than a year to close fully – a common concern in the B2B landscape. Around 70 percent of organizations, according to Salesforce , are now training reps to sell from home. Guided selling operations led to a 30 percent increase in the chance of winning opportunities.

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Trends Social Media Discount Decision Maker 98

BuzzBoard

MARCH 29, 2023

Brute-force methods are clearly not an option anymore, and experts keep stressing that B2SMB marketers must tailor their go-to-market (GTM) strategy and think beyond cold prospecting and traditional campaigning to keep afloat. Bringing together internal and external prospecting data can greatly augment the return on your martech.

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile Data Account Based Marketing Demand Generation 52

BuzzBoard

MARCH 29, 2023

Brute-force methods are clearly not an option anymore, and experts keep stressing that B2SMB marketers must tailor their go-to-market (GTM) strategy and think beyond cold prospecting and traditional campaigning to keep afloat. Bringing together internal and external prospecting data can greatly augment the return on your martech.

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile Data Account Based Marketing Demand Generation 52