Zoominfo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

This is a perfect analogy to what actually occurs in the sales process , where information starts out broad in the beginning and gets incredibly granular towards the end. Implementing a sales funnel helps business development leaders understand its entire sales cycle. What kind of content are they downloading?

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DemandBase

MAY 26, 2020

Now more than ever, sales and marketing alignment is imperative to an organization’s success. We will be diving into topics important to sales teams, such as humanizing the selling process, outreach strategies with buying committees, and ways you can use Demandbase daily to power your selling. With ABM, intent signals run deep.

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Tiecas

MARCH 21, 2024

Longer sales cycles, complex technical products, and a highly analytical buyer persona are just a few factors that set it apart. It is a balancing act because you may be tempted to ask for every piece of information you think you need to qualify a lead. Need proof? It’s a powerful way to establish credibility.

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Albacross

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

This was the perfect complement to our low touch pricing model, where leads could sign up for a trial directly on the website without having to talk to a sales rep. Afterall, a sales team is only effective when it’s busy and ours had quiet periods. Here’s the process we used to automate our outbound sales using Albacross.

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NetLine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This data enables sales teams to focus marketing spend on prospects who are actively ready to buy. Follow these eight steps to gather, analyze, and apply buyer intent data that accelerates your sales cycle. To properly leverage intent data and efficiently drive more business, here’s what you need to know.

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SalesIntel

JULY 10, 2023

Understanding buyer intent has become crucial to marketing, sales, and revenue operations (RevOps) strategies in the current competitive business climate. Why Intent Data is Crucial in Modern Marketing and Sales: Marketing and sales professionals face an uphill battle in reaching and converting potential customers.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 3, 2022

Take a quick ride with us as we give you the inside scoop on how data analytics and market intelligence, coupled with sound business management and strategy, can take your global sales strategy to the next level. We recommend approaching your international sales strategy like an investment. What about location?

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SmartBug Media

MAY 13, 2022

Being notified in real time when prospects are engaging with content relevant to your business improves your targeted nurture outreach and lead scoring. Let’s take a closer look at different ways your marketing team can leverage intent data to help sales close more deals—and close them faster. Tactic #1: Easily Prioritize Accounts.

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Hubspot

MARCH 19, 2022

What is a goal driven sales environment? A goal driven sales environment is an environment in which all aspects of your sales process are optimized and focused on helping your team hit its goals. Once your organization is clear on what your goals are, it will be much easier to lead an effective sales team.

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Engagio

JANUARY 12, 2021

ABM takes time to show results , meaning we need metrics that show real progress within big, complex deals throughout the sales cycle. Think about what matters to Sales. But while revenue is the holy grail, ABM also requires leading indicators to show progress during long sales cycles. Ratios are easy to act on.

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Conversica

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The 4Ps are: Promptness: How quickly does your Sales team follow up with a lead or inquiry? Persistence: How many follow up attempts does your Sales team make before moving on? If a contact fills out a lead form or requests a demo, should Sales teams be following up within hours or minutes? People are busy. Performance.

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Outreach

MAY 11, 2018

What Cancer Taught Me About Excelling in My Sales Career: Give it to them straight. And the way you feel, determines the way you act." Needless to say, this exercise in grit in the face of crisis had a huge implication on my sales career, even to this day. I thought over and over again, "Why me? Why do I deserve this?"

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Engagio

JANUARY 14, 2021

In our ABM Master Class Sales Secrets for Pipeline Hyper-Growth , we shared some of our best-kept secrets on how to prioritize prospects to smash revenue growth. Success in Sales can only be achieved by first understanding the challenges we face in our industry. So what’s the new reality of Sales? And we’re in good company.

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Ledger Bennett

JUNE 1, 2020

There’s little point in spending the limited budget you have on driving demo requests for example. We’re now going to look at the latter half of this client all hands, which separated businesses into four groups based on how they’ve been affected since the onset of the pandemic. What’s working well now is a pivot change in content marketing.

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Albacross

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You might have heard about intent data before, but chances are that you are still missing out on efficient strategies to act on it. Does this mean that buyers will decrease their online research when comparing different providers? Not exactly. 68% of B2B buyers prefer to research online independently. Source: LinkedIn , 2020).

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

But what they can't get from just any vendor is the same sales experience, which is created by the sales rep. The cardinal rule of sales is to always make it about your buyer. Every email you write, voicemail you leave, demo you give, and meeting you attend should place the focus squarely on the buyer. Define your buyer.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. . Marketers are now so inundated with possibilities, it’s hard to know which metrics to report and act on. . . Short answer: You can’t. . .

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Salespeople can only be effective if they have the right decision-makers and the right influencers for outreach. Learn where you should focus on your limited sales and marketing budgets, especially at times like this when we are all asked to do more with less. The ideal outcome of an introductory meeting is a product demo.

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SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Salespeople can only be effective if they have the right decision-makers and the right influencers for outreach. In our webinar transcript below, we explain how you can put data and intelligence into the sales motion to give them efficiency, generate a consistent sales pipeline, and make the go-to-market team efficient.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. KPIs should match the specific needs of your sales team. The Sales KPIs You Need to Know. Sales Rep Activity.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This is a perfect analogy to what actually occurs in the sales process, where information starts out broad in the beginning and gets incredibly granular towards the end. Implementing a sales funnel helps business development leaders understand its entire sales cycle. Stages of a Sales Funnel: Two Perspectives.

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Belkins

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

B2B cycles take more time to complete. But right now 61% of B2B companies state that the length of their sales cycle has increased within a year. You still need to act quickly to prevail in B2B sales. Even if the sales cycle gets longer, it doesn’t mean you can relax. What does it mean for you?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 18, 2024

As a sales professional, it’s your job to find qualified leads and convert them into customers, but the process can take some time to get comfortable with — and more importantly, good at. What you’ll learn: What is a sales lead? As a salesperson, you need to be ready to take them on that journey. More on that below.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Speed up the enterprise sales cycle with trusted AI Give your sales team generative and predictive AI tools in Sales Cloud — with guidance to close deals faster. Get started with AI What you’ll learn: What is enterprise sales? In enterprise sales, the sales cycle spans across the organization.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

One of the most common failure points that often leads to derailed sales and marketing efforts is whether an organization is targeting the right customers. Here are some of the key criteria businesses need to focus on, when wanting to craft effective prospecting messages at various stages of the sales cycle: Being succinct always works.

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Terminus

DECEMBER 15, 2017

“Todd, my counterpart in sales, knew this as well.” Our sales leaders were asking for more support from marketing to stop wasting time on bad-fit accounts. Now, we want to share our story with you. Check out our story about #OneTeam: A True Tale of Account-Based Marketing Transformation.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

On the surface, sales seems like a simple concept: One person buys something from another. If you’re interested in starting a career in sales, you’re in the right place to learn the fundamentals. Prospects for inside sales come from a variety of sources. But in reality, it’s much more than a transaction.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 25, 2021

These are metrics that prioritize and improve sales performance and yield valuable specifics like percent of team meeting quota, average on-target earnings, and sales cycle length. KPIs should match the specific needs of your sales team. Here are the top sales KPIs for B2B sales reps and the leaders who coach them.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 11, 2020

If you’re not already subscribed to Sales Pipeline Radio , or listening live every Thursday at 11:30 a.m. The show is less than 30 minutes, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Listen to the full conversation now or read the transcript below.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JULY 22, 2021

There’s also the added benefit of being able to easily share white papers, demo recordings, and other insights right in a chat. This shortens the sales cycle. An IDC study revealed businesses that implemented Slack as a sales tool were able to respond to a sales lead 21% faster. Tag a product expert.

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Belkins

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

All those cool websites, landing pages, videos, demos? At the same time, you have to make sure that your sales team doesn’t work under pressure. B2B email outreach lacks integrity. Many of our clients faced the same problem: they had no experience with B2B outreach. Improve your email outreach management.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Failure Point #1: Targeting the Wrong Customers One of the most common failure points that often leads to derailed sales and marketing efforts is whether an organization is targeting the right customers. Act like you’ve been there. On the surface, it is. What does their budget look like? Are they growing or focused on cost management?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This means that sales leaders have to keep digging into customer and sales performance data to track progress, make adjustments, and stay on course. Why do you need a sales strategy? Get results with effective performance strategies Combine your sales strategy with achievable team goals and incentives to ensure the best results.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Get a Demo 2. This includes name, title, phone number, and email address for quick, accurate outreach. Using intent data to build prospecting lists gives your sales team the best chance of having an informed conversation with each prospect—and saves time and resources that would’ve otherwise been spent doing manual research.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

While the traditional, one-off funnel method focuses on attracting leads and nurturing them into sales, the flywheel approach uses inbound marketing and other strategies to build long-lasting customer relationships. This guide can be used for startups, B2B businesses, and virtually any new venture you plan on launching.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

What are the different types of sales management roles? There are more than a dozen types of sales management roles. From business development to sales manager to account executive, each role has its unique responsibilities. Channel sales managers work directly with resellers such as distributors and partners.

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