SmartBug Media

JUNE 29, 2023

In today's competitive landscape, sales teams are under immense pressure to deliver results. Traditional sales strategies often fall short thanks to long sales cycles, decreased close rates, and the need for more personalized outreach.

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Outreach

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email marketing is a core element of the buyer journey, serving as one of the earliest touchpoints in the sales cycle (at Outreach, we refer to the optimized series of such touchpoints as Sequences). As a result, most enterprises consider a high email open rate a barometer for gauging campaign success. Click-through rate.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Some still get through and what makes them different is that they’re from friends or crushes—colleagues and thought leaders, in the business world. In sales, your best hope is to send the digital equivalent, which is shown to increase response rates by up to 3x. Not all notes are created equal. Download below!

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Only B2B

AUGUST 21, 2023

The traditional methods of cold calling and generic outreach have given way to a more sophisticated approach that leverages data and insights to connect with prospects who are genuinely interested in your offerings. This approach leads to higher response rates, more meaningful conversations, and a shorter sales cycle.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If you want to compel buyers online, social selling is a new sales approach that allows you to cut through digital noise and harness buyer attention. With 78% of businesses that use social selling outperforming businesses that don’t, you can’t afford to miss out on this strategy.

Sales Management 62

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DealSignal

MAY 30, 2023

Given that there is a certain sales cycle associated with driving leads and opportunities in this fashion, he believed this would blow a hole in the pipeline for six to 12 months due to the product sales cycle. These prospects were run through phone, email, and postal outreach programs.

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SalesIntel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Direct dials form the foundation of your outreach efforts, enabling you to connect with potential clients and partners. In this article, we’ll cover how direct dial phone numbers can substantially enhance your team’s connect rate productivity and significantly boost your company’s revenue.

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Hubspot

APRIL 8, 2020

In the face of closures and shifting consumer behavior, businesses across the world have had to adapt to rapidly changing economic circumstances. What should we change about our strategy, and what can go on, business as usual? Buyers are seeking out and interacting with businesses more today than a month ago. About the Data.

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Vidyard

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

But in a market that’s been heavily reliant on in-person interactions to drive new business, making connections and nurturing clients can be hard in a virtual selling world. Where to Use Video in the Sales Cycle 4.1 Post-Sale 5. Response rates for financial services sales emails are at an all-time low.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It's a beautiful story — Aaron Ross transformed the Salesforce.com sales team without any traditional cold calling and scaled the business into a $100 million sales machine. But the truth is that most sales reps still don't have time to sit and read the best practices he developed in his award-winning book, Predictable Revenue.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

94% response rates. The 2018 Video in Business Awards had it all, and we’re thrilled to share the stories of this year’s Video Selling winners so we can all learn from their video awesomeness. Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. Sherlock Holmes. Cacti (or is it cactuses?).

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Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 117

Vidyard

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Sales teams at HubSpot, Terminus, League, PostBeyond and others rely on Vidyard to cut through the noise, book more meetings and accelerate deals with personalized video. Modern sales professionals are struggling to cut through the noise with traditional tactics like traditional emails and phone calls.

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Sales Management B2B Sales Account Based Marketing Top of Funnel 71

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Table of Contents AI in Sales Today Tasks You Can Skip with AI AI’s Limitations in Sales Boost Productivity and Meet Your Sales Targets with AI AI in Sales Today According to the HubSpot State of AI Report , 95% of business professionals say AI helps them spend less time on manual tasks. How much time?

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Hubspot

APRIL 23, 2020

Businesses all across the globe are learning how to adapt to these new circumstances and we're all learning how to operate in a "new normal" that's constantly changing. That's why we'll be publishing week-over-week trend data for core business metrics like website traffic, email send and open rates, sales engagements, close rates and more.

Advertising Benchmark 92

Advertising Benchmark Budget Programs Open Rate Response Rate 92

Vidyard

JANUARY 18, 2021

If you’re like the winners of the 2020 Video in Business Awards , you’re using a lot more video throughout your sales process. Although in its infancy, Thryv is already seeing positive results from the pilot in the form of shorter sales cycles as the reps reach prospects on their own terms. Master Video for Sales.

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Modern sales professionals are struggling to cut through the noise with traditional tactics like traditional emails and phone calls. Terminus , the B2B account-based marketing (ABM) leader, uses video as part of their sales prospecting efforts and saw a 40% higher open rate, 37% higher click rate and 216% higher response rate.

Sales Management 50

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Modern sales professionals are struggling to cut through the noise with traditional tactics like traditional emails and phone calls. Terminus , the B2B account-based marketing (ABM) leader, uses video as part of their sales prospecting efforts and saw a 40% higher open rate, 37% higher click rate and 216% higher response rate.

Sales Management 50

Sales Management B2B Sales Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing 50

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

94% response rates. The 2018 Video in Business Awards had it all, and we’re thrilled to share the stories of this year’s Video Selling winners so we can all learn from their video awesomeness. Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. Sherlock Holmes. Cacti (or is it cactuses?). Sick rhymes.

Video Marketing 65

Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 65

SalesIntel

JULY 12, 2021

Ensuring proper sales and marketing alignment is one of the best moves a B2B company can make to cement its growth. Approximately 87% of sales and marketing leaders think critical business growth is enabled by the collaboration between sales and marketing. Integrate products.

Sales Management 52

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Outreach

JULY 22, 2019

The hottest thing in sales today is sales engagement — the field that is shaking up revenue teams, upending legacy mindsets, and setting new performance highs. We launched The Sales Engagement Podcast in 2018 to explore sales engagement topics and help businesses reap the ground-breaking benefits.

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Terminus

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Put simply, account-based marketing (ABM) is a focused approach to generate sales opportunities with specific accounts instead of marketing to the entire market. This type of sales is usually characterized by long and complex sales cycles involving multiple buyers in target accounts. Creative Direct Mail Outreach.

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Vidyard

JULY 25, 2019

Whether you use the whiteboard-and-wave webcam or screen share approach, video is proven to get up to 3x the response rate and 5x more meetings booked than boring text-based emails. But once you’ve made that initial connection with a prospect, how do you continue to use video through the rest of the sales cycle?

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SalesIntel

JULY 20, 2021

In response to the rise of remote work, the ease of recruiting “just-in-time” short-term workers, and the lack of the right talent, businesses’ labor strategies are undergoing a seismic transformation. Between 2019 and early 2020, We saw record low unemployment rates (3.5%) that had not been seen in four decades.

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Hubspot

JULY 25, 2023

Like many disciplines, sales teams everywhere are trying to understand what role artificial intelligence will play in their industry. It’s here, and it’s already changing sales as we know it. Today, 68% of business leaders we surveyed believe it will help them scale in a way that would otherwise be impossible.

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Vidyard

MARCH 11, 2019

It’s no longer a secret that the use of video is transforming the world of business. Right now, less than 10% of sales teams are using video as a part of their sales strategy and connecting to prospects by spamming impersonal and irrelevant spray-and-pray messages just isn’t working anymore.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sellers embracing a digital-first and video-first approach to customer engagement see significant gains in 2020; New video-for-sales training tools help every business ramp up their sales teams to embrace video in new ways in 2021 . Lesson 2: Where to use video in your sales cycle and what types of videos to use.

B2B Sales 76

B2B Sales Video Marketing Class B2B 76

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Your prospects are overwhelmed and busy. Sales videos allow them to quickly learn what your company has to offer—along with a host of other benefits we’ll explain below. What is Video for Sales? Benefits of Video for Sales Emails 2.1 Sales Videos Command Attention Because They’re Unexpected 2.2 Contents 1.

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Video Marketing Cold Calling Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 168

Lake One

JANUARY 11, 2021

Whether utilizing prepared proposals, AI to determine a contact’s likelihood of conversion, or chatbots – sales automation can make sure more time is focused on the highest value efforts. At the end of the day, if performance lags, so does morale, thus creating a vicious cycle. Email outreach, LinkedIn inmail, call, etc.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

94% response rates. The 2018 Video in Business Awards had it all, and we’re thrilled to share the stories of this year’s Video Selling winners so we can all learn from their video awesomeness. Video has emerged as a powerful tool for modern B2B sales teams. The Video Selling Engager: Imagine Business Development.

Video Marketing 51

Video Marketing Sales Cycle Work Management Marketing Proposals 51

SalesIntel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Modern sales teams use prospect or customer data collected from various sources such as their CRM, website, apps, social media, email marketing database, and call logs to power their campaigns. For example, they could use website visitor intelligence data to know who is visiting their business website and which company they work at.

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Vidyard

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New data from Vidyard , the video platform for businesses, suggests that in response to the shift to digital selling, the use of video for sales–both live video conferencing and personalized video messaging–has grown exponentially in 2020, and so too has its impact on sales performance.

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Conversica

JUNE 15, 2021

A data analytics, business intelligence and AI solutions developer for portfolio clients of the Savant Group, DevSavant now offers Conversica AI Assistants to automate and augment customer engagement by sales, marketing and customer success teams within its client organizations.

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Vidyard

JANUARY 18, 2021

If you’re like the winners of the 2020 Video in Business Awards , you’re using a lot more video throughout your sales process. Although in its infancy, Thryv is already seeing positive results from the pilot in the form of shorter sales cycles as the reps reach prospects on their own terms. Selling Team of the Year.

Video Marketing 65

Video Marketing Burn Rate Advertising Benchmark Outreach 65

Vidyard

MARCH 9, 2017

Today we’re excited to announce that, in partnership with SalesLoft, the platform for modern day sales engagement, we’re launching a new integration that will help sales teams supercharge sales emails with personalized, custom videos boosting response rates by 8x! 2017 could be the hardest year for sales reps.

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Directive Agency

JULY 7, 2017

Want to Increase Leads For Your Business? In the B2B space, search marketers are often dealing with elongated sales cycles that call for long lead nurturing campaigns. In the B2B space, search marketers are often dealing with elongated sales cycles that call for long lead nurturing campaigns. Free Consultation.

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Hubspot

APRIL 16, 2020

Businesses all across the globe are learning how to adapt to these new circumstances. That’s why from now until the end of June, we will be publishing week-over-week trend data for core business metrics including such as website traffic, email send and open rates, sales engagements, close rates and more.

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Response Rate Advertising Benchmark Forecasting Open Rate 97

Hubspot

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In this growing sales landscape, we’ll outline the various processes and key strategies for prospecting -- the phase of selling that often consumes the most time and energy (and is the most crucial to get right). Prospecting: The process of searching for potential customers, clients, or buyers in order to develop new business.

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