Oktopost

APRIL 28, 2024

Social media marketing managers and sales executives are no longer sitting on opposite ends of the strategy table. To close more deals, sales executives are starting to take social media for sales seriously. The B2B sales space is changing. Why is social media for sales a must-have?

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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changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated.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.

Sales Management 136

Sales Management Examples Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership 136

Only B2B

AUGUST 2, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, lead generation is crucial for driving growth and revenue. There are two main approaches to generating Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) : Inbound and Outbound lead generation. They require further nurturing and engagement to move them through the sales funnel.

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Vidyard

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Why is using video for sales emails a smarter way to engage prospects and advance deals? 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 Benefits of Video for Sales Emails 2.1

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Video Marketing Cold Calling Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 168

PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

Having a defined list of qualified prospects that you want to reach out to will improve the results your sales efforts generate. In this post, I’ll show you how you can start building your B2B list to help you spend more time talking with qualified leads. How to Create a Qualified Prospect List with Leadiro.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2023

LinkedIn Sales Navigator has evolved into an indispensable tool for the majority of sales teams. With the strong presence of B2B buyers on LinkedIn, sales teams are now leveraging the platform to optimize their prospecting efforts, moving beyond solely using cold calling and traditional outreach methods.

Ideal Customer Profiles 69

Ideal Customer Profiles Linkedin Top of Funnel Lead Scoring 69

ViewPoint

JANUARY 17, 2012

Are marketing resources or sales reps the right resources to do lead qualification and lead nurturing in the B2B complex sale? But first, let's take a look at some lead generation challenges. Think of lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing as progressive steps in a funnel.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 17, 2012

Are marketing resources or sales reps the right resources to do lead qualification and lead nurturing in the B2B complex sale? But first, let's take a look at some lead generation challenges. Think of lead generation, lead qualification and lead nurturing as progressive steps in a funnel.

Lead Qualification 120

Lead Qualification Lead Nurturing Sales Qualified Leads Leads 120

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.

Sales Management 62

Sales Management Examples Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership 62

Vidyard

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Why is using video for sales emails a smarter way to engage prospects and advance deals? They are overwhelmed and busy and sales videos allow them to quickly learn what your company has to offer—along with a host of other benefits we’ll explain below. Watch and Learn Want to learn about using video in sales emails via video?

Video Marketing 65

Video Marketing Cold Calling Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 65

Vidyard

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Why is using video for sales emails a smarter way to engage prospects and advance deals? They are overwhelmed and busy and 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

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Video Marketing Cold Calling Lead Ranking Enterprise Management 65

Hubspot

OCTOBER 5, 2017

It’s the one aspect of sales that just never changes. As we’ve all experienced, sales essentially boils down to two things: Numbers. While we (or our team) are racing to hit quota against that clock, though, we can save time and maximize our numbers by investing in the right processes, activities, and skills. Sell, sell, sell.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. But first, we’ll dive into the benefits sales prospecting tools have for your organization.

Enterprise Management 76

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 25, 2019

Knowing the physical location of your prospect is key to your marketing and sales efforts. response rate compared to 0.12% for email – a 3566% difference! We tracked engagement across digital channels (social and email), cold calling, and direct mail (postcards with a URL to a landing page).

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 24, 2024

In any sales-led growth strategy , the purpose of marketing is to get new leads into the sales funnel that drives new business. Sales teams can make up the difference using outbound sales techniques. What is Outbound Sales? Cold calling , cold email outreach , and networking are common examples.

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Sales Management Ideal Customer Profiles Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 130

Scoop.it

MARCH 26, 2019

When marketing and sales work together in close alignment, they can help companies close 38% more deals. Sales enablement connects marketing and sales by the key roles each plays in educating prospects, closing deals and contributing to growth. Marketing teams provide sales organizations with tools and curated information.

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Vidyard

MAY 18, 2017

Online video content has become the best way to tell your story, but it’s also become the most effective way to generate new leads and to qualify your prospects. So let’s look at how video can help you in each one of these stages of the lead generation life cycle, to generate better results for your demand gen programs.

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DiscoverOrg

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Here at DiscoverOrg, supporting outbound sales and marketing lead generation through accurate data and comprehensive sales intelligence is core to our business. Last summer, we conducted a survey of B2B marketing professionals to glean exactly that – the value that those individuals are seeing from their outbound efforts.

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 25, 2016

For most companies, it likely started with marketing automation software, a website makeover, Search Engine Optimization, Pay-per-click advertising, and Customer Relationship Management software. Most of us remember a day when sales reps used to be able to generate their own leads. Well, let’s go back in time a bit.

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Enterprise Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Sales Qualified Leads 120

Hubspot

APRIL 23, 2020

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. Another bright spot for sales teams last week was email. Another bright spot for sales teams last week was email.

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Advertising Benchmark Budget Programs Open Rate Response Rate 92

Digital B2B Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2013

You are easily spending thousands on lead generation media programs each month. You have carefully chosen your partners, negotiated an effective cost per lead and are diligently measuring your results. You can increase the value you get by changing how you run each of your programs. You become another cold call or email blast.

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Only B2B

JUNE 2, 2022

If you’ve been in marketing or sales for more than a decade, you’ve probably heard the phrase “cold calling is dead.” Despite this, many of the most successful companies are still cold calling in 2022, and they aren’t going away anytime soon. Is cold calling still a viable option?

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Hubspot

MARCH 12, 2018

Where Sales Prospecting Went Bad. I'm not sure where sales prospecting went bad. My theory is that someone applied some math to this whole prospecting sales funnel-y thing and realized that spam is actually a decent prospecting method. This sad state of affairs is fully the fault of sales leaders -- including myself.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 22, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! Qualify them first.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Generation B2B Thought Leadership 120

Hinge Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2014

When it comes to lead nurturing, firms often believe that more is better. However, sending vast amounts of emails and phone calls to prospects can actually hinder instead of help. Be patient and take your time with following up and engaging potential leads. Here’s where a qualifying system comes in handy.

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Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation Services Sales Qualified Leads Service 48

Rev

MAY 24, 2023

Right now, Sales teams continue to face one of the toughest sales environments in memory. Your SDRs have to be able to cut through the competition of everyone else’s SDRs (not to mention prospects’ own busy schedules) just to have the chance to talk about your value prop. Nail the first 15 seconds of cold calls.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Urgency Marketing Cold Calling Outreach 15

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Prospecting workflows are established so that sales reps don’t spend their whole day looking for prospects. If we break it down, a workflow is an orchestrated and repeatable process of activity. Typical prospecting workflows involve researching and then connecting to prospects via cold calls, cold emails, and beyond.

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Optimization Zoominfo Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 264

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

As part of a broader lead generation, on-demand platform, Demandbase offers a free, downloadable Web application built on Adobe AIR (one of 3 investors in an $8M round they also announced.) Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Albacross

JANUARY 17, 2020

When it comes to sales, using the right tool can have a huge impact on your bottom line. There’s an extensive range of sales software out there and figuring out which one you should invest in can be a challenging task. Albacross asked experts to share their Top 3 Sales Tools for the coming year. No need to worry, though.

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Marketing Automation Services Top of Funnel Budget Programs Work Management 122

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 4, 2011

by Carol Fox Any salesperson will tell you: cold calling is a fine art. While this approach can be extremely effective in finding the ideal qualified sales lead, too many B2B marketers fall prey to mistakes that could easily be avoided. Now with the advent of LinkedIn, cold calling has a new spin: cold contacting.

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SalesIntel

MAY 27, 2024

In sales, your success heavily relies on your ability to identify and connect with the right people at the right accounts. Whether you’re a seasoned sales professional or just starting out in the field, you’re likely no stranger to prospecting (and if you are new to this, welcome, we’re glad you’re here!).

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Ideal Customer Profiles Opt-out Privacy Outreach 52

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Prospecting workflows are established so that sales reps don’t spend their whole day looking for prospects. If we break it down, a workflow is an orchestrated and repeatable process of activity. Typical prospecting workflows involve researching and then connecting to prospects via cold calls , cold emails, and beyond.

Optimization 100

Optimization Zoominfo Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Vidyard

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s now clear that embracing a digital-first strategy for marketing, sales, and employee engagement is a must for any business. Video Trend 1: Video in Sales Explodes 2.1 Get the Rest of the Sales Team on Board 2.1.3 Innovators Leading the Charge With Video Trends 2.2.1 Video Trend 1: Video in Sales Explodes 2.1

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Vidyard

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s now clear that embracing a digital-first strategy for marketing, sales, and employee engagement is a must for any business. Video Trend 1: Video in Sales Explodes 2.1 Get the Rest of the Sales Team on Board 2.1.3 Innovators Leading the Charge With Video Trends 2.2.1 Video Trend 1: Video in Sales Explodes 2.1

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Marketing Graham

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This helps you develop an ideal ‘buyer persona’ so you can identify good sales leads. Don’t rush it or pass it to a junior member of staff; take responsibility for quality data. Don’t rush it or pass it to a junior member of staff; take responsibility for quality data. open rate ** and 3.2%

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Sales Engine

JANUARY 28, 2016

They recently set up an experiment where they adjusted their publishing volumes by half the amount of content and then doubled it, both for a two-week period against their normal benchmark, to see what would happen to engagement and lead generation. In other words, when I send out a campaign, how many leads did it generate?

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