Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Among many takeaways — about sales enablement , forecasting , hiring , and more — one thing was certain: Sales has changed a lot since the pandemic began. In these conditions, without the right knowledge, tools, and team assistance at their fingertips, your sales reps will find consistent sales success hard to come by.

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Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 8, 2021

All eyes are on you, Marketing Manager, to feed the sales team ready-to-close leads. When the prospect is ready to buy, your sales team carries them over the finish line to close the deal. BTW: Are Your Sales and Marketing Teams Aligned? You’ll also use your customer personas to guide future marketing and sales efforts.

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Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Generation Ideal Customer Profile 246

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. Hopefully, they’re on your website, digesting your blog posts, videos, and case studies.).

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Funnel B2B 179

The Pipeline

MAY 28, 2019

Time is a truly critical element of sales success, yet too many take a very passive approach to their time. To succeed in prospecting, in fact, in any element of sales, you need to own your time. Time Is The Currency Of Sales. More than ever, time is THE currency of sales. Time is a finite resource.

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Buying Cycle Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring 309

Highspot

MAY 6, 2021

And yet, many sellers are wasting their opportunities to connect with potential buyers and lead them into the sales process. Unfortunately, there are some common prospecting mistakes that get in the way. You also wouldn’t want to offer a white paper that’s too general to apply to your buyer’s unique challenges.

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Prospecting How To Buyer Campaigns 116

Pipeliner

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The RAIN group has just released a powerful new white paper on a subject near and dear to all sales hearts: prospecting. The study detailed in this white paper set out to find: What is it like for buyers to be sold to every day? This comprehensive study was conducted on 488 buyers representing $4.2

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BuzzBoard

APRIL 16, 2024

They act as the linchpin for agency growth, enhancing sales and cultivating an increasing client base. As sales professionals, understanding and utilizing these tactics can foster new opportunities and propel your agency’s success. Productive use of blogs, white papers, and case studies cultivates long-term lead capturing.

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Lead Generation Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 52

Zoominfo

AUGUST 5, 2021

Among many takeaways — about sales enablement , forecasting , hiring , and more — one thing was certain: Sales has changed a lot since the pandemic began. In these conditions, without the right knowledge, tools, and team assistance at their fingertips, your sales reps will find consistent sales success hard to come by.

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Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy 100

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 9, 2020

Once your company spends money to find a prospect, the clock starts ticking. The facts (research) show that just because some sales leads are six months to a year old, half of any given group of leads with the same age is still in the market to buy. Companies are not immune from the same issue – no (or slow) follow-up, no sale.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 177

Janek Performance Group

MAY 2, 2023

In an instant, sales organizations saw their operations and teams rendered dramatically less productive. In addition to an uncertain economy, organizations now face dispersed sales teams and a lexicon of new phrases. Think of that in terms of sales, an industry on the forefront of change. It wasn’t just prolonged downtime.

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Hiring Negotiation Decision Maker Coaching 62

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

If you’re in land-and-expand mode – you have a Fortune 500 account and want to gain business with new divisions – share a case study about what you’ve helped other areas of the company to accomplish. An essential tool for doing that deep dive to gain intelligence about the account is your inside sales team or telemarketing firm.

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Account Based Marketing Sales Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile Account 174

Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan I loved this short, but perfect post from Seth Godin''s Blog last week. There are certainly companies and people that don''t measure up when it comes to the high integrity profile and that is what makes prospects so skeptical. It''s about the importance of trust. Bad experiences.

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Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Collateral 266

Sales Hacker

JULY 8, 2022

When the prospect reconsiders their needs, you’re positioned to be the first choice. Bonus: At the end of this article I’ll cover how to automatically route prospects into your nurture sequence using triggers. This can be anywhere from 60-90 days or longer, depending on your sales cycle. So how do you write a nurture sequence?

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Prospecting How To Segment Ideal Customer Profile 84

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you think a B2B sales funnel is an abstract idea, brace yourself. It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Your digital-savvy B2B prospect is researching the product they think they need. Hopefully, they’re on your website, digesting your blog posts, videos, and case studies.)

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Funnel B2B 130

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Author: Eleni Hagen If there’s one thing 2020 taught us, it’s that time is of the essence: in life, as well as in sales. . The long answer involves a play-by-play of how best to strengthen your sales engagement strategy so your brand’s messaging will be more likely to hit home. . Start With a Complete Review. You get the idea.). .

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Scale Maximizer Strategy How To 177

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Author: Eleni Hagen If there’s one thing 2020 taught us, it’s that time is of the essence: in life, as well as in sales. . The long answer involves a play-by-play of how best to strengthen your sales engagement strategy so your brand’s messaging will be more likely to hit home. . Start With a Complete Review. You get the idea.). .

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Maximizer Strategy Lead Rank Lead Scoring 156

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 16, 2022

What do top-performing sales teams do better than under-performing sales teams? They don’t waste time selling to prospects who are not ready to buy. Instead, they have a system to identify the highest value prospects in their pipeline and invest their time with those that are most likely to close.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead Leads 62

Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

When it comes to empowering salespeople to close deals and drive revenue, too many sales enablement solutions fall short by placing the emphasis on content rather than conversations. Sending a white paper to a prospect without context isn’t going to close a deal.

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Sales Enablement Conversion Industry Case Study 54

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Savvy buyers are using on-line content to set strategies, explore and select solutions, all before ever engaging a sales representative. When surveyed as to the most influential content in decision making, white papers remain the stand-out content of choice.

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Influencer Collateral Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 40

Partners in Excellence

MAY 25, 2022

We struggle to provoke interest, to engage a prospect, to get people to respond to our outreach. In my news feed, I saw an article about an interesting research study on sales performance/productivity. It promoted a white paper going much more deeply into the research. Everyone struggles to generate leads.

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Follow-up Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 68

Allego

APRIL 18, 2024

Well, it’s no longer just a promise—AI is actively reshaping the way we manage our day-to-day tasks and how we conduct business, particularly in sales. In fact, consulting firm McKinsey & Company says, “AI is poised to disrupt marketing and sales in every sector.” To help you, I dug deeper to see how sales teams can use AI.

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Examples Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 62

Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

In fact, most sales teams rely on long-term accounts and word-of-mouth to maintain revenue, which is not a sustainable approach. Create a Formal Sales Process The first step in elevating your lead generation process is to build a definite sales process. Lead evaluation: not every lead is worth pursuing.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Pipeline Sales Qualified Lead 52

Pointclear

JANUARY 26, 2012

These are the five essential channels you can rely on for generating a steady stream of inquiries that you can then convert to qualified leads, and have a prayer of closing enough sales to meet your revenue quota. Your website The source of your cheapest and most qualified sales leads is right at your fingertips: your company website.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 28, 2016

You’ve all experienced this, you download a white paper, maybe you sign up to evaluate a new SaaS tool. ” Forget that you haven’t even gotten the white paper, or the logon link to the tool. These anxious sales people are already far down the road in trying to engage with you.

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Prospecting Follow-up eBook Study 48

Pointclear

JULY 16, 2013

Top performing B2B sales organizations rarely employ just one lead generation tactic. Inbound marketing is based on developing high quality content that attracts qualified buyers, who are in the early stages of the sales cycle. A healthcare company recently received a white paper download from Dr. Kildare at the MASH Hospital Unit.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 225

Igniting Sales Transformation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

When things don’t go well, the negative brand impact on your company has greater potential for damage that goes far beyond losing a sale or a current customer. It could be a marketing interaction, and more often, that first touch starts with someone on the front lines of your sales organization. The reverse is also true. A lot of it.

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Webinar Metrics Loyalty Buyer Case Study 126

Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 23, 2023

No one wants to miss a deal, and, in sales, time counts. For every stalled sale, there are a multitude of excuses. Prospect Theory A theory of behavioral economics and finance, this idea was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. Simply put, prospect theory deals with the psychology of decision making.

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B2B Case Study Collateral ACT 62

Allego

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Great sales content drives conversations—and results. In many organizations, a sales enablement team drives the creation, distribution, and management of sales content. All this content needs to be easy to consume and reusable across the sales organization. Why Sales Content Isn’t Used. Why is that?

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Case Study Face-to-face 71

Pointclear

JULY 26, 2018

Case studies. Not all radio program podcasts lend themselves to being used as case studies, but Jane notices that with a little work, this program fits the basic criteria. She has what she needs for the case study. Within 60 days they can offer the case study on their site and in nurture programs sent to prospects.

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Case Study PointClear Study Social Media 100

SBI Growth

AUGUST 19, 2012

This post discusses how to get your prospects interested in you versus your competitors. Demand generation content refers to web pages, blogs, eBooks, white papers, webinars, newsletters, and many others. Your prospects decide if they are going to buy from you, or your competitors, before they meet you. Magazine- here.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Top of Funnel 257

Pipeliner

MAY 26, 2023

Sales enablement is a process that helps businesses equip their sales teams with the resources, tools, and information they need to improve their performance and close more deals. In today’s competitive market, sales enablement has become an essential strategy for any business that wants to stay ahead of the competition.

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Sales Enablement Hiring Scale Resources 98

The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 28, 2018

Sales Prospecting Definition. Nailing a sales prospecting definition can be difficult depending on your sales process, product and market. So, what is sales prospecting and what sales activity does it entail in winning new customers or business? A sales prospecting definition is.

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Top of Funnel Lead Rank 49

SBI Growth

JANUARY 20, 2014

DMA studies show Offer is the #1 determination of success for customer marketing. The Role of Offers in Prospect Marketing. When marketing to prospects, the Offer plays a major role as well. Quality of the list is the #1 determination of success for converting prospects. This strategy also extended to outside sales.

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Campaigns Demand Generation Targets Demand Generation Outside Sales 310

Anthony Iannarino

MAY 31, 2019

These days, sales conversations are becoming even more buyer-focused, which means sales reps have to get creative when it comes to prospecting. Everyone is scrambling to develop their own hacks, techniques, and processes for prospecting in order to move prospects through the sales funnel and turn them into customers.

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Prospecting Cold Calling eBook Networking 105

Pointclear

JUNE 6, 2013

Online content in the sales and marketing industries is dynamic and constantly changing. Ryan also observed that new attendees aren''t just tire-kickers and prospects are armed with more knowledge than ever—asking tough questions for which the best B2B marketers must be prepared. Via GreatB2BMarketing. Via iMedia Connection.

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B2B Buyer Trade Show PointClear 190

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

In sales, a business development strategy is central to understanding and engaging with your customers. Thus, they can tailor their marketing and sales efforts accordingly. Thus, they can tailor their marketing and sales efforts accordingly. This should include their experience at different levels of the sales funnel.

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Buyer Persona Webinar Metrics Buyer Strategy 62

Chorus.ai

JANUARY 29, 2021

Among many takeaways — about sales enablement , forecasting , hiring , and more — one thing was certain: Sales has changed a lot since the pandemic began. In these conditions, without the right knowledge, tools, and team assistance at their fingertips, your sales reps will find consistent sales success hard to come by.

Sales Enablement 62

Sales Enablement Webinar Metrics Top of Funnel Strategy 62