Zoominfo

OCTOBER 14, 2018

With the rise of sales enablement technology and the variety of available communication methods, one might expect phone calls to become a thing of the past. Yet, cold calling is still a key component of B2B sales. cold call attempts to reach a prospect. cold call attempts to reach a prospect.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 23, 2021

If your sales pipeline is colder than a Siberian spigot in January, it’s time to rethink your sales prospecting techniques. Sales prospecting techniques are the tactics a salesperson uses to find new customers. Sales prospecting techniques are the tactics a salesperson uses to find new customers. Let’s jump in.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now comes the hard part — the cold call. Daily, sales reps (mostly SDRs) face the daunting task of turning cold calls into warm calls. Sales reps look to increase conversion rates by upping their cold call game. And If you haven’t tried out cold calling scripts yet, now’s the time.

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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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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Learn what sales prospecting is, and how business development professionals can go to market using outreach strategies that deliver business results. What is Sales Prospecting? The ultimate goal is to guide your prospects through the sales funnel until they eventually make a purchase. How to Prospect: Step by Step.

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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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it.

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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. Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? Of course, your sales strategy’s success, including reaching your revenue goals, depends on the sales team hitting their numbers. It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. A sales rep uses the information (i.e.,

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

These cold email templates can help you use the customer data at your fingertips to convert prospects faster. Cold Calling Cold calling gets a bad rap. In fact, 41% of salespeople consider cold calling their most powerful tool for making a sale. The bottom line? of the time.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 11, 2021

If your sales team hasn’t dealt with enough upheaval over the past 15 months, get ready for even more adjustments in the upcoming post-pandemic world. Exploring post-COVID-19 sales strategies will be necessary as we bounce back from economic hardships. Evaluate These Changes to the Sales Process. For example, in the U.S.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 6, 2019

Sales prospecting—a common source of misery for most sales reps—is a critical aspect of selling for nearly all businesses. Prospecting strategies uncovers potential buyers, fuels an organization’s sales pipeline , and provides important context to future sales conversations. What Is B2B Sales Prospecting?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 11, 2021

If your sales team hasn’t dealt with enough upheaval over the past 15 months, get ready for even more adjustments in the upcoming post-pandemic world. Exploring post-COVID-19 sales strategies will be necessary as we bounce back from economic hardships. What you knew about your market probably changed during the pandemic.

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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

MARCH 26, 2019

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.

B2B Sales 100

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But Henry Schuck, ZoomInfo’s founder and CEO, says a company really can’t deliver its best products unless the people building them hear directly from skeptical prospects. What happens on a sales call is pretty magical,” Schuck says. Bringing your product team to the sales floor doesn’t just benefit the product roadmap.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 8, 2022

As privacy compliance regulations become more stringent, an increasing number of organizations are being penalized for activities that were once seen as standard practice for sales and marketing. In the UK, for example, a home improvement business was recently fined £200,000 for making over 500,000 unsolicited cold calls.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

And while it’s not hard to find basic business data — company names, phone numbers, employee counts, revenue, maybe direct dial numbers and email addresses — today’s complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers. What is Sales Intelligence? What Do Sales Intelligence Tools Do?

Ideal Customer Profiles 130

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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 ).

Statistics 184

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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.

Sales Management 236

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 30, 2022

We’re all familiar with the “four Ps” of marketing: product, price, promotion, and place. Privacy compliance has become an essential part of modern-day marketing. Even though the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in 2018, data collection and processing can still leave marketers feeling uncertain.

Privacy 130

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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

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

JANUARY 11, 2021

It goes without saying that B2B consumers look for new products in order to make their lives a bit easier. Customer pain points are abundant, and it is up to marketers and salespeople to both identify and address them when reaching out to prospects. Ultimately, your sales and marketing strategies depend on it.

Intent Signal 100

Intent Signal Zoominfo B2B Marketing Analytics Tools 100

Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

You want to be on top in your market, but it’s more difficult when you’re pitted against enterprises. 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.

Ideal Customer Profiles 246

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Zoominfo

APRIL 8, 2018

In the B2B space, consistent blogging can have a huge impact on the success of your business—i.e. General B2B Blogging Statistics: 1. 33% of B2B companies use blogs ( source ). General B2B Blogging Statistics: 1. 33% of B2B companies use blogs ( source ). If content is king, consider your blog its throne.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 20, 2019

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. These are as follows: Interview Questions For Sales Rep Qualities 1. Perceptive Successful sales professionals are often very perceptive. In the job market yourself?

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SalesIntel

APRIL 19, 2024

The first step in the sales process is prospecting. To effectively prospect, you need verified contact data on your ideal buyers. But if the contact data for these accounts is also missing or of poor quality, you’ll reach out to prospects who aren’t ideal matches. However, you can’t afford to stop selling.

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. To effectively prospect, you need verified contact data on your ideal buyers. But if the contact data for these accounts is also missing or of poor quality, you’ll reach out to prospects who aren’t ideal matches. However, you can’t afford to stop selling.

Marketing Automation Services 40

Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring 40

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. Seek out contacts at the right level.

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Zoominfo

MAY 3, 2018

There’s no way around it, bad data impacts every aspect of a business — from lead generation to marketing, customer relationships, cold calling , and revenue. What Is B2B Data? B2B data is insightful information used to help drive sales and marketing efforts. What is Data Maintenance?

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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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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

AUGUST 1, 2022

As interest rates rise by 75 basis points for the first time in almost 30 years, experienced sales reps and newcomers alike are facing the prospect of selling during a recession. Sales is tough enough as it is, and prolonged economic uncertainties make the job even harder. So I learned to cold call in a tight, tight recession.”

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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. 62% of organizations rely on marketing data that’s up to 40% inaccurate. Keep reading.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Whether you conduct your sales outreach by phone, social media, or email—it’s undeniably an essential aspect of B2B sales. Today we’ll cover a list of insights around sales follow-up productivity, channels, cadences, and effectiveness. B2B Sales Follow Up Statistics Sales Follow Up Productivity 1.

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LeanData

APRIL 13, 2023

With many companies reporting a decline in inbound, there’s a renewed focus on outbound sales. Unfortunately, outbound motions get a bad rap because people associate them with intrusive, unwanted cold calls and spammy emails. Cold calls and cold emails are a costly way to do outbound without any signal from the buyer.

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