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.

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profiles Cold Calling 208

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

MARCH 3, 2021

On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Sales reps can also pinpoint specific obstacles and make improvements with a stage-focused sales strategy.

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Sales Cycle Ideal Customer Profiles Tips Lead Scoring 100

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust. How Do You Set Up Email Automation?

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SalesIntel

MAY 26, 2023

With SalesIntel’s unlimited data plan, sales teams are no longer confined by using ZoomInfo credits. Instead, your team can leverage SalesIntel’s unmatched data quality to lead to faster revenue, increased prospecting efficiency, and more meetings booked. Wondering how much ZoomInfo credits cost ?

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Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2021

Selling points and promises aside, without fully understanding their prospects (i.e. the particular pain points of each prospect at different parts of the funnel), companies can amass all the data in the world without actually using it to its full potential. Without benefiting from it through sales. That’d be something.

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Intent Data Intent Zoominfo Top of Funnel 246

Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2020

At ZoomInfo, we care about the sales numbers, but we know to get there we must: Always. When you rush to close a sale, you don’t have the time to harness key insights about your prospects — leaving you high and dry during your sales calls. What Sales Intelligence Do I Need for an Effective Cold Call?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Be upfront and transparent with your prospects. There are plenty of reasons why 1 out of 2 B2B sales reps fear making cold calls, but preparation can boost their confidence. Consider these following tips to get more success in your cold calls — before, during, and afterward: Do: Research your prospect (Who are they? Conclusion.

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Cold Calling Guidelines Practices B2B Sales 264

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

In this recap of the webinar, we’ll review the importance of incorporating automation into key parts of your sales cycle, give you a peek into ZoomInfo’s best go-to-market plays, and present new time-saving selling strategies. Through trial and error, companies adopt “sales plays” that become repeatable and highly targeted.

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Webinar Metrics Zoominfo Automation Marketing & Strategy 242

Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Landing pages have a vital, singular purpose — encouraging visitors to begin the sales cycle with a brand. Keep in mind that potential prospects may already be interested in your competitors — and your current customers could jump ship. Digital marketers invest in creating landing pages because of their higher conversion rates.

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Landing Pages Marketing Prospects Best Practices Digital Marketing Funnels 246

Zoominfo

MAY 7, 2021

“The summary of it is that we prospected like heck, we did probably 50 to 100 demos, we struck out a lot, and every time we struck out we just kept going and going and going. When Andy Lyon started at ZoomInfo, people called him “Andy Cub.” Within this time frame, both companies had signed separate contracts with ZoomInfo.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Manual sales prospecting and lead generation doesn’t get your sales and marketing teams where they need to be for their quotas — and it wastes time. However, when these teams are equipped with the right tools, such as sales intelligence, less important tasks can be automated so that reps can focus on lead strategies.

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InsideView Enterprise Management Top of Funnel Tools 264

Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2023

According to ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck, ensuring data accuracy is one of the greatest challenges faced by companies evaluating generative AI technologies. At ZoomInfo, we’re watching these developments closely because data quality is core to our business. Businesses in every sector and vertical are overwhelmed by data.

Marketing Analytics Tools 130

Marketing Analytics Tools Generation Zoominfo B2B 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 17, 2021

One of the many benefits of conversational marketing is its ability to accelerate your sales cycle. After all, it is built for and used by both your marketing and sales teams to drive pipeline and generate revenue. Elsewhere, we’ve classified the prospects that visit your site into six high-level categories.

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Hubspot Top of Funnel Conversion Sales Qualified Leads 195

Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

When sales and marketing don’t communicate properly, you risk broken processes and inconsistent metrics. Sales reps spend a lot of time looking for content to share with prospects, or sorting through leads that don’t necessarily meet the mark. That’s exactly what good communication between sales and marketing does.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

JANUARY 24, 2024

That prospective customer is identified typically based on online research designed to find individuals or businesses that match a company’s buyer persona. Far from just a sales pitch, cold calling is about exploration and connection. Genuinely understanding your prospect’s needs and concerns helps you offer tailored solutions.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 16, 2021

Selling points and promises aside, without fully understanding their prospects, companies can amass all the data in the world without actually using it to its full potential. The Basics: What Exactly is ZoomInfo Intent? Its growth is changing how teams prioritize their time and gather behavioral signals about prospects and accounts.

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Intent Data Intent Zoominfo Buyer Intent 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2020

An ideal client profile should inform teams about potential clients that would make good prospects, as well as which ones aren’t. Improved Sales and Marketing Alignment: Instead of requiring prospects to cater to your sales and marketing processes, you can start to mold your strategies around prospective customers.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Profiling Account Based Marketing Buyer Personas 246

Martech

JANUARY 29, 2024

Understanding lead generation ZoomInfo refers to lead generation as: “[T]he process of attracting prospects and getting them into the sales funnel, with the goal of converting them into customers. When building lists for prospecting, data enrichment — both paid and behavioral — should be used thoughtfully to guide outreach.

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Lead Ranking Lead Gen Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Scoring 113

Zoominfo

MAY 16, 2022

The root of that stunning shortfall, analysts say, is a lack of insight into the prospective buyer. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust. Let’s say you’re targeting ZoomInfo and you know that it’s a software company based in Vancouver, WA. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust.

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Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Zoominfo Work Management 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Your marketing and sales teams need both. All of these signals show optimal conditions for a sale.

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Lead Ranking Buy Work Management Marketing Management 309

Zoominfo

JUNE 16, 2021

Once he and his team identified their ideal prospect, they did some research and found that one of his first jobs was at an apple orchard. When it comes to prospecting emails, the importance of that first outreach cannot be underestimated. How to Personalize Your Prospecting Emails. Sure enough, he responded.

Ideal Customer Profiles 130

Ideal Customer Profiles Outreach Opt-out B2B Sales 130

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.

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Work Management Case Studies Sales Cycle Case Study 235

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2021

In this recap of the webinar, we’ll review the importance of incorporating automation into key parts of your sales cycle , give you a peek into ZoomInfo’s best go-to-market plays , and present new time-saving selling strategies. Through trial and error, companies adopt “sales plays” that become repeatable and highly targeted.

Webinar Metrics 130

Webinar Metrics Zoominfo Automation Marketing Strategy 130

Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2020

Sales and marketing often speak different languages: Convert vs Close, Prospect vs Leads, Sales cycle vs Marketing funnel. A Guide for 2020 #intent #zoominfo #hityournumber [link] — ZoomInfo (@ZoomInfo) April 2, 2020. This can make alignment between the two difficult. But what is it?

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Zoominfo

JUNE 10, 2021

This was true for duos such as Calvin and Hobbes, Bert and Ernie, and Frodo and Sam, and it’s true for sales development reps (SDRs) and account executives (AEs). Based on years of experience, ZoomInfo has built a world-class SDR team that fuels growth and provides an internal pipeline of talent. So, What Do SDRs and AEs Do?

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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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Product Zoominfo Enterprise Management Cold Calling 130

Zoominfo

APRIL 20, 2022

A more nuanced understanding of marketing’s effect on the sales cycles, a better case for increased budgets, and another step forward in the age-old struggle for better sales and marketing alignment. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust. The result? So, what metrics should marketers report on ? .

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Multi-Touch Attribution Zoominfo Account Based Marketing Lead Ranking 130

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There have been many eye-opening moments for ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck during the company’s 14-year journey from startup to public company. But then in 2019, DiscoverOrg acquired ZoomInfo to expand the business. By doing so, the sales process becomes not only quicker, but smarter. It’s an easy implementation.

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Zoominfo Privacy Sales Cycle Acquisitions 130

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Conversely, point-in-time data leaves sales and marketing professionals with inaccurate data, causing issues with go-to-market strategies and individual prospect outreach. link] — ZoomInfo (@ZoomInfo) February 9, 2021. As fresh data feeds into the CRM, reps can prospect with greater accuracy.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Zoominfo Cold Calling Sales Qualified Leads 162

Zoominfo

JANUARY 19, 2021

Landing pages have a vital, singular purpose — encouraging visitors to begin the sales cycle with a brand. Keep in mind that potential prospects may already be interested in your competitors — and your current customers could jump ship. Digital marketers invest in creating landing pages because of their higher conversion rates.

Landing Pages 130

Landing Pages Marketing Prospects Best Practices Digital Marketing Funnels 130

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Marketing teams spend a huge amount of time and money to find out what motivates their prospective customers. When a prospect finally lands on your website, those efforts have reached a critical moment: you have their attention, and it’s time to build a relationship. ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 29, 2020

SMBs are looked over by sales professionals because they generally don’t have the giant budgets that enterprises do. Selling to Stakeholders with ZoomInfo. SMBs also have shorter sales cycles, which saves your sales team time and resources. How to Scale Your SMB Sales Strategy. Think of the CLV!

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 13, 2018

We talk about buyer personas a lot on the ZoomInfo blog— for good reason! Uncovering the characteristics of your best buyers is critical for developing targeted content, product development, sales follow up, and anything related to customer acquisition and retention. 36% of companies have created shorter sales cycles using personas.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Is ZoomInfo an integral part of your GTM strategy? pic.twitter.com/eJJLHYV1jY — ZoomInfo (@ZoomInfo) November 1, 2019. Take Atlatl Software, a ZoomInfo customer that was trying to capture customers in an unestablished market. Re-creating our ICP not only helped us find a path to high-value prospects,” Cooper said.

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Marketing Analytics Tools Ideal Customer Profiles Zoominfo Marketing & Strategy 189

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On average, an SDR takes about 42 hours to get in touch with their prospect — but that doesn’t have to be you. This not only allows you to filter your qualified leads ; it also increases the likelihood that your prospect will show up to the call. In this image, Amy (prospect) and Leo (AE) were previously chatting on email.

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Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Leads 236

Zoominfo

JUNE 16, 2021

Once he and his team identified their ideal prospect, they did some research and found that one of his first jobs was at an apple orchard. When it comes to prospecting emails, the importance of that first outreach cannot be underestimated. How to Personalize Your Prospecting Emails 1. Sure enough, he responded.

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