Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Sales Cycle Cross-Selling 207

Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2021

Exceptional sales performances aren’t achieved through sheer willpower — they’re accomplished by understanding goals that are easily tracked and planned out. Sales reporting helps managers track and monitor progress to keep a pulse on sales cycle profitability. Purposes of a Sales Report.

Top of Funnel 162

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Touchpoints 162

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

When developing a sales strategy, many leaders aren’t sure where to begin. Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to revamp an existing sales strategy, creating campaigns based solely on instincts or assumptions is no longer acceptable. To craft an effective modern sales playbook , data and analytics must reign supreme.

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Marketing Automation Services Marketing & Strategy Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 130

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Sales great Zig Ziglar once wrote, “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” ” That’s the struggle of every team without clear sales targets: no clarity, no progress, no growth. See how it works What are sales targets? Why are sales targets important? It’s kind of like a poorly planned race.

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Cross-Selling Budget Programs Training Work Management 116

Varicent

DECEMBER 7, 2021

You probably know this already, but sales forecasting is all about predicting how much revenue your team or business will likely bring in over the next quarter or the next year. Understanding Sales Forecasting. Sales forecasting really matters. It also shows how effective a sales team is.

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Forecasting Analytics Work Management Marketing Management 98

InsightSquared

MARCH 12, 2021

Your sales reports are suffering, but it doesn’t have to be that way! . Say Goodbye to Static, Inflexible Sales Reports. Your sales team is moving fast. Or how you plan to coach your reps? InsightSquared’s HubSpot integration brings advanced analytics, forecasting, and much more to the HubSpot marketplace.

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Hubspot Top of Funnel Forecasting Enterprise Management 156

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Guest blog by Joe Rodden, Sales Systems Manager at Catalant Technologies. On to the last lever: Management. Some of the toughest problems to solve in sales operations are management issues. Train Managers, Too. Think of it as, “Here’s what we’re rolling out to your reps.” Manage Up With Facts.

Work Management 136

Work Management Cross-Selling Training Forecasting 136

Conversica

JANUARY 24, 2019

A guest blog by Michael Hanson, VP of Marketing at CloudTask – CloudTask is a managed workforce provider for growing companies looking for B2B Sales, Sales Chat and Customer Support solutions. But it’s not just important to keep the length of your sales cycle tight.

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Sales Cycle Marketing AI Conversion Top of Funnel 109

Webbiquity

JULY 21, 2020

to extract insights from analytics or generate leads). What’s most important is for marketers to understand what IA can do and how to apply it to improve marketing processes. Here are nine of the top AI-based tools for marketing and sales professionals. 10 AI-Based Marketing and Sales Tools. Fortunately, no!

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Tiecas

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Industrial marketing for manufacturers is complicated, with many moving parts that must mesh together to produce measurable and sustainable results, i.e., generate better quality leads that turn into sales opportunities. You may face other challenges but these seem most common in my conversations with manufacturers and industrial companies.

Top of Funnel 104

Top of Funnel Lead Generation Advertising Agencies Lead Scoring 104

Binary Demand

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

[ps2id id=’Introduction’ target=”/]Based on a recent HubSpot report, 35% of surveyed marketers prioritized B2B demand generation activities in 2022, indicating a noticeable shift from tactical demand generation to a more strategic approach in the current and future of B2B demand generation marketing.

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InsightSquared

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Similarly, key components factor into one phenomenon that can show the health of your overall sales process. Within sales, moving plenty of high-value opportunities successfully through the pipeline is the goal of every sales VP. The overall win rate percentage for your sales team. Measuring Pipeline Velocity.

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Sales Cycle Sales Qualified Leads Top of Funnel Aggregators 242

InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

December around the corner also means your sales year is coming to an end. Therefore, it’s important to manage your time and plan accordingly. So, as a sales leader or manager, what do you do? I’ve faced this challenge as a senior sales executive, sales enablement executive and outside sales enablement specialist.

Sales Management 196

Sales Management Top of Funnel Enterprise Management Marketing Management 196

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

AUGUST 24, 2023

I’ve seen countless businesses (including enterprise companies) compile — and try to analyze — sales data in spreadsheets like this. Sure, spreadsheets are useful for small projects, but they can be cumbersome when dealing with complex sales data. Sales dashboards to the rescue. Rinse, repeat — 10 times a day.

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Examples Enterprise Management Work Management Eye-Tracking 98

Act-On

APRIL 26, 2024

While these leaders come from different industries, company sizes, and backgrounds, a few common themes emerged. As organizations tighten budgets and headcount, marketers tend to experience those downstream impacts as longer sales cycles and lower conversion rates. Marketing — in this economy? “If

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Lead Ranking Privacy Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer 191

SalesIntel

MAY 13, 2024

This scenario is all too common in B2B sales, where complex solutions and lengthy buying cycles can lead to frustrating interactions. The truth is, B2B sales doesn’t have to be a slog. Customer Relationships: In B2B sales, the emphasis is on building relationships. But what if there was a way to flip the script?

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InsightSquared

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Everything you thought you knew about managing your revenue operations was stamped with a giant question mark. And in many cases, the focus of your sales strategy was simply survival. It’s easy to blame COVID for the “new” sales world. You’ve known InsightSquared for analytics and dashboards. Solving their challenges.

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Correlation Forecasting Ideal Customer Profiles Cross-Selling 250

Hubspot

AUGUST 24, 2023

Imagine a sales representative who never sleeps, never gets tired, and possesses an uncanny ability to analyze vast amounts of data in seconds. This is the promise of AI sales reps, and their potential to revolutionize the sales industry is undeniable. The application of generative AI in sales is diverse.

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Marketing AI Allocation Work Management Lead Scoring 57

Hubspot

APRIL 12, 2023

When assessing your team’s performance, sales activities offer crucial metrics. That includes the number of sales calls, VP-level meetings, new qualified opportunities, and so on. With proper sales activity management, you can influence sales objectives and business results.

Work Management 85

Work Management Marketing Management Activities Marketing Proposals 85

The Point

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Just listen to marketing guru Gary Vaynerchuk, perhaps the biggest champion for advertising on Facebook and other channels, who says that social media advertising is “grossly underpriced” and that companies have a window of opportunity to take advantage before big brands drive up the cost. All of which begs the question: what about organic?

Top of Funnel 203

Top of Funnel Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Lead Scoring 203

Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2020

At ZoomInfo, we care about the sales numbers, but we know to get there we must: Always. When you rush to close a sale, you don’t have the time to harness key insights about your prospects — leaving you high and dry during your sales calls. These tidbits can be the difference between an average sale and a humongous deal.

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Cold Calling Zoominfo Work Management Effectiveness 207

Zoominfo

AUGUST 3, 2022

Creating a global sales strategy is one of the most important and challenging exercises for a business. However, it’s not a simple rinse-and-repeat process across different countries, where culture and resources will differ as much as the local cuisine. When we built ZoomInfo’s global sales team, we gained some valuable insights.

Enterprise Management 130

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Webinar Metrics 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 13, 2021

Exceptional sales performances aren’t achieved through sheer willpower — they’re accomplished by understanding goals that are easily tracked and planned out. Sales reporting helps managers track and monitor progress to keep a pulse on sales cycle profitability. Let’s continue with our example from earlier.

Top of Funnel 100

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Touchpoints 100

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 22, 2021

You can add “business development vs. sales” to that long list. Sales is, well, sales: bringing your product to your target market. Business development can concern anything your company does to expand its market reach. The Difference Between Business Development vs. Sales, in Detail What is Business Development?

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Buyer Personas Best Practices 130

SalesIntel

JANUARY 21, 2022

Intent data is a set of behavioral and search signals to help marketers and sales professionals understand potential customers’ likelihood to purchase a product or service. Here are some situations where Buyer Intent data can lead to a 5x faster sales cycle. . Make the Most of Your Sales Efforts.

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Intent Data Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 98

Launch Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Research has shown that up to 50% of leads are qualified but not yet ready to buy and only 3% of those in the market are in an active buying process. Often times sales teams are solely focused on short-term gains and not interested in the longer nurturing processes. Acquisition.

Sales Management 114

Sales Management Lead Nurturing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 114

Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2021

You can add “business development vs. sales” to that long list. Sales is, well, sales: bringing your product to individuals in your predetermined target market segment. Business development can concern anything your company does to expand its market reach. The Difference Between Business Development vs. Sales, in Detail.

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads Buyer Personas Best Practices 130

FunnelEnvy

OCTOBER 31, 2022

There’s a lot for marketers today to consider when it comes to tactics for bringing in new business, but your sales pipeline is what ultimately defines the success of all your funnels, marketing campaigns, and other efforts to add new clients and revenue consistently. Click To Tweet.

Sales Management 114

Sales Management B2B Sales Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership 114

Seismic

JANUARY 21, 2021

The acceleration of digital transformation in sales will only continue. By 2025, Gartner projects that 80 percent of sales interactions will occur in digital channels. As more businesses adopt digital sales strategies, sellers who excel at developing strong relationships through personalization will have a competitive advantage.

Top of Funnel 102

Top of Funnel Marketing AI Analytics Organization 102

Conversica

JUNE 26, 2020

A collaborative blog post with contributions from Michael Hanson, VP of Marketing at CloudTask – CloudTask is a managed workforce provider for growing companies looking for B2B Sales, Sales Chat and Customer Support solutions. But it’s not just important to keep the length of your sales cycle tight.

Sales Cycle 52

Sales Cycle Marketing AI Top of Funnel Work Management 52

Rev

AUGUST 30, 2023

A disorganized sales process. That’s why sales enablement can be an invaluable tool to help you navigate the choppy waters ahead and build a more efficient sales department. What is the goal of sales enablement? Endless meetings. Communication that lacks clarity. Let’s get started. Think about it.

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Practices Work Management Marketing Management Best Practices 78

Oktopost

DECEMBER 20, 2023

AI has taken the world by storm, and especially since the launch of ChatGPT just over a year ago, it has significantly changed the way we work – and sales teams are no exception. But don’t worry, the rise of AI in B2B sales will not replace you. AI can simply empower you with extra help to reach your sales quota.

Top of Funnel 78

Top of Funnel Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Ideal Customer Profiles 78

Zoominfo

MARCH 9, 2021

Demand generation is the process of building awareness and interest in a brand’s products and services. Marketing teams work in a cross-functional capacity to develop ongoing, omni-channel strategies that utilize a portfolio of tactics to connect value propositions to the right audience. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Top of Funnel Demand 225

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. If you’re a marketer at a manufacturer, distributor, or engineering company, you know this firsthand. I’ve witnessed countless industrial companies’ challenges and frustrations firsthand.

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Tactics B2B Marketing Webinar Metrics Marketing Strategy 75

Oktopost

OCTOBER 23, 2021

For hyper-competitive B2B companies, this means that a steady stream of new leads is essential for supporting and sustaining growth. B2B sales success depends on, first, generating leads, then screening them for their intent to buy – a process known as qualifying. What is a Sales Development Representative?

Top of Funnel 117

Top of Funnel High Quality Lead Sales Qualified Leads Enterprise Management 117

The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

Understanding B2B Digital Marketing Strategies Unlike B2C marketing, which focuses on reaching individual consumers who can often make an immediate decision, B2B marketing typically involves multiple decision makers, longer sales cycles, and higher price points. Understand their needs, pain points, and decision-making processes.

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Paid Content Sales Management B2B Marketing Marketing Strategy 97

Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The B2B sales process has changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated. This digital shift has welcomed a new era in sales: social selling. However, since social selling is a relatively new concept, few sales teams manage to get it right.

Sales Management 139

Sales Management Examples Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership 139