Sprout Social

JANUARY 9, 2024

When you walk into a brick-and-mortar store, you expect a sales associate to greet you and ask how they can help. To create an exceptional customer experience, invest in your team’s social media personalization strategy. What is social media personalization and why are marketers prioritizing it? Make room for experimentation.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Sales automation tools streamline repetitive tasks so you can focus on selling. What is Sales Automation? Today’s Sales professions spend just 34% of their time selling. With that shocking statistic, let’s review the benefits of sales automation. The Rise of Sales Automation. Salesforce.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

And as I have discussed before , the best organizations also give back – my tenure at SAP included community service and participating in world-class instances of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Along the way I was fortunate to work with some tremendous partners with shared common values. Truly a “lead generation machine”!

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Zoominfo

JULY 26, 2022

An enterprise API strategy can transform your data management system for better GTM sales motions, targeted outreach, and success. But APIs are only as good as the quality of information they process and provide. APIs for Sales For B2B sales teams, narrowing in and prioritizing accounts is a critical first step.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Today, we’re sharing the ultimate list of sales podcasts. If you work in sales, it’s our hope that this list of sales podcasts provides you with some fresh listening material, newfound inspiration, and the tips and tricks you need to excel in the world of sales. The Ultimate List of Sales Podcasts. Listen here.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 7, 2022

That’s because the modern hiring process typically starts far later than it should to improve diversity. This leaves recruiters scrambling for candidates within a limited pool and little opportunity to factor DE&I into the talent acquisition process. Effective employer branding can go a long way toward spreading that message.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Vice President of Sales at ZoomInfo, Steve Bryerton, shares his thoughts on how to implement a Team Lead within your organization. Picture this: You’re a sales leader, currently responsible for a team of nearly 10+ sales development reps. But we have to warn you, there are sales leaders who will advise otherwise.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Today, we’re sharing our list of the best sales podcasts on the web from some of the biggest sales personalities. So if you work in sales, it’s our hope that this list of sales podcasts provides you with some fresh listening material, newfound inspiration, and the tips and tricks you need to excel in the world of sales.

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Vidyard

APRIL 19, 2021

In the B2B world, managers and team leaders have developed tried and tested programs for onboarding new hires in the office, but the shift to a remote workforce has shaken up the sales onboarding process as a whole. Is the Virtual Sales World Here to Stay? Is the Virtual Sales World Here to Stay? Contents 1.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Picture this: You’re a sales leader, currently responsible for a team of about 10 sales development reps. By splitting your team, you’ve been able to deploy measurable processes to maximize strategies, as well as identify areas for iteration to improve results. Then again, nothing in sales is. Now, is it perfect?

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Outreach

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sales enablement and engagement do. That’s why Outreach is excited to announce a new integration with Highspot, a leading sales enablement platform that helps sales teams increase performance with AI-powered content recommendations, tracking, and analytics. What goes together like peanut butter and jelly?

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ABM in Action

JUNE 29, 2023

Traditionally, leads and accounts were treated as incompatible — but Jon Russo, CMO of sales and marketing performance firm B2B Fusion , explained that many practitioners have a lead motion and an account motion, and they exist as two separate entities. Why is it important practitioners unite their funnels? Russo explained.

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LeanData

JANUARY 20, 2021

Succeeding in a competitive marketplace requires the extraction of the full value of every lead, and as such, B2B go-to-market (GTM) functions need absolute best-in-class lead management strategies. . Poor lead management contributes to a 25 percent reduction in potential revenue (Gartner). executing effective programs.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Most of the advice I’ve heard about upselling is about making the sale. Maximize upsell opportunities with AI Learn how the AI insights and real-time data of Sales Cloud can help you identify upsell opportunities by surfacing relevant customer signals. Let’s say a customer hires me to do a one-time sales training session.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 25, 2022

In a world where speed matters, bulky data processing tasks that can take weeks or months to complete, slow down the entire process and lead to missed opportunities. “Enabling customers to gain superior insights and intelligence from data is core to the ZoomInfo strategy,” ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck says.

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Zoominfo

JULY 8, 2021

Sales reps and marketers that use ZoomInfo and Microsoft Dynamics 365 are about to see their day-to-day lives get easier thanks to a new collaboration between the two companies. This integration allows customers to accelerate their sales and marketing efforts by using ZoomInfo’s best-in-class data while never leaving Dynamics 365.

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LeanData

JUNE 15, 2022

For those of you who have yet to have had the pleasure, simply stated, lead leakage is the progressive and cumulative loss of leads as they progress through the sales funnel. The sales funnel for almost every company is shaped, indeed, like a funnel, or a cone, with its sides tapered closer together down the length of the funnel.

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LeanData

APRIL 30, 2021

In go-to-market (GTM) processes, it’s often easy to focus attention at the end of the buyer journey, where closed/won deals occur and recognition gets handed out more widely throughout the organization. According to The Bridge Report’s 2021 Sales Development report , the average tenure for an SDR in 2020 is 1.8 Intellectual Curiosity.

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Seismic

APRIL 11, 2022

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re in the process of hiring or you’ve just been promoted to a sales management position. As you think about the type of leader you’d like to hire or become, it’s important to understand the qualities and attributes that make a great sales team manager. Let’s check them out!

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

That trend is expected to continue this year, posing big questions and even bigger implications for sales leaders. What happens when your top sales rep — along with all their institutional knowledge, leadership, and training — jumps ship? Most importantly, why do reps decide to leave and what can you do to convince them to stay?

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Zoominfo

APRIL 29, 2021

But a more detailed set of sales scorecards can complement a leaderboard and provide AEs with a better view of achievements, said Dylan Conant, former associate chief of staff to the chief revenue officer at ZoomInfo. With that additional information from the scorecard, a sales director may view the $1 million total differently.

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Zoominfo

MAY 23, 2023

It’s enough to ruin any sales professional’s quarter: that prospect your team has spent months engaging — scheduling demos, addressing concerns, comparing features — suddenly decides they’re not ready to buy after all. You can’t stop every account from getting cold feet or misreading their company’s appetite for new solutions.

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Aberdeen

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Onboarding sales reps is painful — both in terms of the cost and delay in achieving return on training investment. And the cost of talent acquisition, talent management, and talent development isn’t cheap. The delay in achieving comparable performance to those tenured sales people will usually exceed one full year.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to Collins Dictionary , quiet quitting is the practice of doing no more work than one is contractually obliged to do, especially in order to spend more time on personal activities. Pricefx , the leading SaaS-based price management, and price optimization solution, is creating a bridge between sales and marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2021

They may even expect businesses to offer custom-fit solutions to their needs and personalized customer experiences unmatched by the competition. Only then can you create truly personalized, seamless experiences to guide your leads through the sales funnel successfully. How Does the Predictive Analytics Process Work?

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Directive Agency

JULY 17, 2019

This was a struggle for one of our clients that creates construction project management software. We decided to prioritize content marketing funnel tactics. Then we got to thinking and realized blog posts and resource pages had the most unique visitors, but no calls to action to send users to the next step of the funnel.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 9, 2022

That's why leaders need to leverage effective sales training techniques to set reps on the right course and facilitate their professional growth. When we reached out to Sunny Sandhu — Director of Sales Development at Guru — for his insight, he stressed the importance of covering the "why" behind a topic. Start with "why.".

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Outreach

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Sometimes as a sales leader you may wonder why the things you tell your reps don’t stick. We recently hosted a session between two of the industry’s top sales leaders on the do's and don’ts of real-time coaching. Mark Kosoglow, VP of Sales at Outreach. Some sales teams have placemats they can keep handy.

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Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2021

Acclaimed data expert and serial entrepreneur Peter Gentsch says in his book, AI in Marketing, Sales, and Services : “To the user, chatbots seem to be ‘intelligent’ due to their informative skills. More importantly, they may be losing top-of-the-funnel prospects due to impersonal chat experiences. However, no business runs 24/7.

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Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2021

Acclaimed data expert and serial entrepreneur Peter Gentsch says in his book, AI in Marketing, Sales, and Services : “To the user, chatbots seem to be ‘intelligent’ due to their informative skills. Without these capabilities and high-quality data, sales teams that implement chat can be overwhelmed by poor-quality leads.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

We are in Q4 and moving into 2021, so the stakes are high for sales; meaning it’s probably time to look for the next lever to optimize selling capabilities. COVID-19 has made it clear that sales strategies needed to evolve. However, many sales reps feel that expectations from leadership haven’t linked together with their new reality.

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xiQ

MAY 14, 2020

May 14, 2020 – xiQ, the leading AI-powered B2B Marketing and Sales Platform, introduces Personality-Based Engagement (PBE). By combining proven behavioral science-based personality assessment methodologies with Artificial Intelligence (AI), xiQ has created a new category for B2B precision selling and marketing.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

If you’re dealing with a sales objection… congratulations! We should relish objections,” says Steve Bryerton , ZoomInfo’s Vice President of Sales. When sales prospects offer objections, it means they’re taking you seriously. What Does a Sales Objection Look Like? That’s exactly where you want to be. “We

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A sales workflow is more than a series of tasks that you no longer have to perform manually. For example, intent data can help sales representatives send automated prospecting and follow-up emails, while firmographic data is helpful for sales operations teams that need to more effectively route leads to their sales team.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 15, 2022

Maybe the sales team you worked with was attentive, maybe you got the support you needed, or maybe the solution exceeded your expectations. 5 Components of a World-Class Revenue and Growth Team 1. A successful partnership is built on trust, communication, and support, which is more than simply closing a sale.

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ANNUITAS

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Eighty-five percent (85%) of B2B buyers expect sales reps to demonstrate a firm understanding of their needs. Successful ABM: Implements best-in-class, targeted, and focused marketing. Takes the best of ABM (personalized attention) and the best of Demand Marketing (ability to scale) and marries the two together.

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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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