Zoominfo

APRIL 8, 2018

If content is king, consider your blog its throne. In the B2B space, consistent blogging can have a huge impact on the success of your business—i.e. If your company isn’t blogging—it’s time to start. Check out these numbers: 33 Business Blogging Statistics. General B2B Blogging Statistics: 1.

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Business Blogging Statistics Business Lead Scoring 201

Zoominfo

MAY 6, 2018

Sales reps often refer to receptionists, assistants, and phone operators as gatekeepers—and for good reason. These professionals have the job of screening calls, deciding what’s important, and ultimately, who gets through to their boss—the decision maker. Essentially, gatekeepers hold the key to B2B sales success.

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B2B Sales B2B Cold Calling Zoominfo 203

Zoominfo

APRIL 10, 2019

As a recruiter, it may seem unnatural to think of yourself as a sales rep; after all, you work with people, not products. In fact, research has shown recruiters with superior sales skills are consistently top performers in their field. Continue reading to learn the seven sales skills every recruiter must have.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies. In other words, they have pain points they need fixing.

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Intent Signal Zoominfo B2B Marketing Analytics Tools 277

Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking Lead Generation Sales Management 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. Identifying customer pain points is crucial to the success of both your sales and marketing strategies. In other words, they have pain points they need fixing.

Intent Signal 246

Intent Signal Zoominfo B2B Marketing Analytics Tools 246

Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2019

This year, the ZoomInfo team published nearly 250 blog posts related to sales, marketing, recruiting, and business growth. It is our hope that our content helped spark your creativity, allowed you to discover something new, or made your life as a sales professional easier in some way. 12 Ways to Handle Sales Pressure.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 11, 2018

Whether you’re a hiring manager, sales leader, or the CEO of a company, you know it can be difficult to identify and hire top sales talent. Successful sales professionals are often very perceptive. Question: What are some common sales objections you’ve received? Often, sales objections aren’t always what they seem.

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B2B Sales B2B Sales Cycle Best Practices 178

Zoominfo

JULY 31, 2018

Rejection is painful, no matter how your sales prospects say it. If you want to improve your sales performance, you must first understand why your prospect said no in the first place. 5 Reasons Your Sales Prospects Say No. And there you have it— the five reasons your sales prospects say no. Sorry, not interested.

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Zoominfo Cold Calling B2B Sales Lead Scoring 164

Zoominfo

JUNE 13, 2018

Social media has completely transformed the way people interact with each other—including the way sales professionals interact with customers and prospects. Social selling is one of the hottest trends in the business world, yet many sales professionals remain skeptical of its effectiveness. As a sales person, we must be visible.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And it’s a crucial feature of any successful B2B business. . Rather, it identifies the specific factors that will impact the way a product is received, such as target audience, marketing plan, and sales strategy. . Basic marketing and sales strategies no longer make the cut when it comes to modern go-to-market motions.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Ideal Customer Profiles Zoominfo Marketing & Strategy 189

Zoominfo

MAY 10, 2018

Under constant pressure to meet quota, productivity is at the forefront of every sales rep’s mind. Yet, regardless of the many sales productivity tips and tricks published online, 65% of B2B organizations say they still struggle with sales productivity ( source ). You make too many cold calls. of the time.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Cold Calling Work Management 236

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Modern sales reps rely on a variety of tools and technologies to conduct their work—including email, social media, video chat tools and more. As a result, the traditional in-person sales meeting has become far less common than it once was. The Benefits of Face-to-Face Interaction in Sales. Let’s get into it!

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The truth is, most sales reps haven’t received any formal training in this area. This means reps at your company could be missing out on interested leads, important sales conversations, and ultimately, revenue. 93% of sales executives have not received any formal training on social selling ( source ). alone ( source ).

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Statistics Peer-to-peer Cold Calling Zoominfo 184

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Keep reading for our top five reasons to send your employees to a B2B conference or tradeshow this year! The bottom line is—face-to-face communication facilitates connections and business opportunities in a way cold calling and emailing can’t. Looking for good B2B conferences? Skill development. Brand awareness.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust. Yet in the world of B2B, there are certainly some common pain points that we all can relate to.

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Intent Signal Zoominfo B2B Marketing Analytics Tools 100

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Cold calling — or really any form of cold outreach. But that doesn’t mean cold outreach isn’t worth looking into. Find out more about cold outreach for lead gen — 9 Cold Calling Tips to Generate More Leads. And what are one of the most difficult methods of lead generation?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Is cold calling dead? Patrick Donnelly said cold calling was in a blog post recently, but only if it has not evolved from the smile and dial of years past. Cold calling can increase the number of prospects, appointments and sales. Cold calling shouldn’t stand alone.

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Zoominfo

MAY 30, 2019

Consider these statistics ( source ): 80% of calls go to voicemail, and 90% of first time voicemails are never returned. 15% of the average sales rep’s time is spent leaving voicemails. Access to direct dial phone numbers is a simple but huge way to improve your sales outreach. Perfect the timing of your calls.

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Spending Peer-to-peer Outreach B2B Sales 186

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What is a Lead?

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Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 240

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 13, 2018

With just the click of a mouse and a quick Google search, today’s sales reps have a whole host of resources right at their fingertips—resources that help them streamline and simplify activities like prospect research, sales outreach, and professional development. Today, we do the same for sales reps. 2. Sales Hacker.

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SalesIntel

APRIL 19, 2024

The first step in the sales process is prospecting. This blog will help you identify the top ten lead enrichment tools and ensure you choose a reliable data provider for your prospecting efforts. Accurate lead data is crucial for successful sales and marketing efforts. Access advanced-level B2B data.

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring 40

SalesIntel

APRIL 19, 2024

The first step in the sales process is prospecting. This blog will help you identify the top ten lead enrichment tools and ensure you choose a reliable data provider for your prospecting efforts. Accurate lead data is crucial for successful sales and marketing efforts. Access advanced-level B2B data.

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring 40

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

First impressions are important – especially as a sales rep trying to win more business. When you get on the phone with a potential buyer for the first time, every word you use can make or break a future sale. With so many tasks to accomplish during a first call, it’s easy to forget the simplest one – making a good first impression.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But in reality, many people who work in sales are also motivated to help other salespeople succeed and advance their careers. Following the right sales influencers on social media channels can give you a lot of insight into best practices, new trends, tips and advice, and help you find ways to connect with prominent thought leaders.

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Social Media Cold Calling B2B Thought Leadership Media 205

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And it’s a crucial feature of any successful B2B business. Rather, it identifies the specific factors that will impact the way a product is received, such as target audience, marketing plan, and sales strategy. Is ZoomInfo an integral part of your GTM strategy? GTM motions can fail for a variety of reasons. What does that mean?

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Marketing Analytics Tools Ideal Customer Profiles Zoominfo Marketing & Strategy 100

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Modern sales reps rely on a variety of tools and technologies to conduct their work—including email, social media, video chat tools and more. As a result, the traditional in-person sales meeting has become far less common than it once was. In-person meetings remove many barriers between B2B sales representatives and their customers.

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Process Skype B2B Sales Cold Calling 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 11, 2018

Whether you’re a hiring manager, sales leader, or the CEO of a company, you know it can be difficult to identify and hire top sales talent. Successful sales professionals are often very perceptive. Question: What are some common sales objections you’ve received? Often, sales objections aren’t always what they seem.

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Sales Cycle Work Management B2B Sales Cold Calling 138

Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2018

There’s no way around it, bad data impacts every aspect of a business—from lead generation to marketing, to customer relationships, to cold calling, to revenue. Up to 25% of B2B database contacts contain critical errors. The B2B Database Glossary. Final thoughts about your B2B database. Keep reading. Maximized ROI.

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B2B Marketing Management Data Hygiene B2B Sales 100

Zoominfo

APRIL 26, 2018

In an ideal world, sales reps would spend all day sending emails, taking calls, and ultimately, doing what they do best—selling. There’s a lot more to sales than meets the eye. The best sales reps have developed an arsenal of productivity hacks to balance the administrative work with the actual sales process.

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Statistics Product Peer-to-peer Work Management 197

SalesIntel

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sales prospecting on LinkedIn is preferred by most salespeople. Sales reps also understand how to conduct prospect searches and narrow outcomes by sector, business, venue, and other criteria. However, what if these tactics aren’t bringing in enough new opportunities to fill your sales pipeline?

Sales Management 52

Sales Management Linkedin Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel 52

Vidyard

OCTOBER 28, 2022

You’ve done your research, bravely picked up the phone to make the first sales call of the day, and on the other end of the line, you’re met with crushing sales objections that stop you dead in your tracks. What Is a Sales Objection? How to Overcome Common Sales Objections 2.1 Is This a Sales Call?”

Ideal Customer Profiles 125

Ideal Customer Profiles Cold Calling Advertising Benchmark Budget Programs 125

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But in reality, many people who work in sales are also motivated to help other salespeople succeed and advance their careers. Following the right sales influencers on social media channels can give you a lot of insight into best practices, new trends, tips and advice, and help you find ways to connect with prominent thought leaders.

Social Media 100

Social Media B2B Thought Leadership Cold Calling Media 100

Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

At ZoomInfo, we see a future where our software and intelligence power a closed-loop go-to-market cycle from data, to decision, to action. When ZoomInfo and DiscoverOrg came together almost two years ago, it was like two pieces of a puzzle coming together to deliver a more complete offering. About EverString. A Complete Data Solution.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 22, 2018

If you’ve worked in sales for any amount of time, you know the standard sales process looks something like this: You identify a prospect and conduct research, you figure out what pain point or challenge they’re trying to solve, and then you offer your product or services as the solution. These tactics are as follows: 1.

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Work Management Case Studies Sales Cycle Case Study 235

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What is lead generation, and why is it a source of contention for sales and marketing teams? Usually considered a sub-objective of a Demand Generation strategy, Lead generation refers to the process of attracting and converting prospects into paying customers, or at the very least getting them into the sales funnel. What is a Lead?

Sales Management 177

Sales Management Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 177

ClearVoice

APRIL 30, 2020

Generating more leads might just require a few changes to your current sales and marketing strategy, however, generating quality leads and at scale is quite another challenge. Unbounce is a dedicated landing page builder that helps marketers convert more visitors and leads into buyers and sales.

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Lead Generation Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Lead Scoring 95