Search Engine Land

MAY 2, 2024

When I audit the Google Ads programs of new and prospective clients, I still find some without a YouTube advertising component. Yet when I ask new clients and prospects why they don’t have YouTube video ads, they usually give one or more of the following reasons: They don’t have the budget. They’re not sure how to get started.

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Campaign High impact Clients Growth 118

SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

What is the impact of your beliefs on your ability and commitment to attract and convert your ideal prospects? What’s the impact of the belief of yourself, the role you have in people’s lives, and the value they receive in working with you? Everything that comes at you stretches or shrinks your belief level!

Clients 126

Clients Referrals Pitch Lead generation 126

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 19, 2024

Sometimes, my mind starts turning into jelly and goes to weird places. I imagined myself interviewing for the CRO position in a high growth start up. Dave: Thanks for the opportunity to speak, I’m sure I can have a great impact in driving growth in your sales organization. CEO: I’m excited to speak to you.

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Quota Growth Prospecting Start-ups 129

SalesProInsider

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“ You get what you’re looking for.” And now as an adult, I can see how true this statement is. We do get what we’re looking for in many life circumstances, and in sales efforts. Here’s how I see it coming into play in sales situations, especially when faced with concerns or objections during our sales conversations.

Conversion 139

Conversion Sales Pitch Clients 139

Salesforce

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

You’ve done your research. You feel like you’ve got a firm grasp on your prospect and their pain points. You sit down to write an email that perfectly outlines how you can help them meet their goals, and you hit “send.” Days go by, and you hear nothing but crickets. Contact information.

Pipeline 105

Pipeline Sales CRM Quota 105

Martech

APRIL 11, 2024

Higher-ups want us to do more with less (efficiency). Demand creation: Creating demand for your specific brand over other brands. Note: Demand creation does not mean manufacturing demand from scratch at a prospective client’s organization. Technology is great at automation and efficiency. Demand conversion (e.g.,

B2B 135

B2B Manufacturing Technology Technology 135

Salesforce

JANUARY 29, 2024

If you build it, they will come. A good email list brings in new prospects, increases engagement with your community, and provides you with valuable customer and performance data to keep refining your efforts. Let’s break down the basics of email list building: why you should be doing it and how to get started.

CTR 124

CTR CRM Promote Campaign 124

Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Part one: The promise Part two: The shift Part Three: The crossroads Part Four: Where do we go From here? I was a young, freshly minted MBA with a background in computer science, and a two-year stint doing software marketing at IBM. We need you to set it up, and figure out how we use it.” It was the early aughts.

B2B 130

B2B Technology Technology Pipeline 130

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2024

For the sparse discussion about how to fix it, the discussion focused on higher quality MQL/SQL’s and focus on better prospecting. Why would marketing or sales do anything other than this? Would you be interested in learning how we can help your organization?”

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SQL Quota Presentation Prospecting 127

Martech

MARCH 6, 2024

Concerned that these rules will kill your cold emails and your outbound teams might go crazy? So what are the requirements and how should you adapt and avoid harsh penalties? Without DNS settings your emails will never reach your prospects’ inboxes. So, how do you handle these killer demands?

Electricity 115

Electricity Non-Profits Construction Real Estate 115

Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Forget nailing your value proposition, crafting eloquent email copy and avoiding spam filters. Your entire outreach will fail if your call to action (CTA) is weak. While regular cold emails can bring you an average reply rate of 5% to 10%, personalized CTAs perform 202% better. Keep it short, sweet, and to the point.

B2B 120

B2B Prospecting A/B testing Click Through Rate 120

Search Engine Land

MAY 10, 2024

How you navigate negative reviews reveals a lot about what type of business you are. This article covers the importance of navigating negative reviews from past employees, learning from these reviews and ensuring your company doesn’t take a reputational hit. The same goes for if you have good reviews.)

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Trust Represent Start-ups Consult 109

Salesforce

JANUARY 4, 2024

Thankfully, email makes it possible for you to gain influence with your desired audience over time. In this piece, we’ll give you a clear understanding of drip marketing and how you can use it. How do you get started with drip marketing? How do you get started with drip marketing?

Campaign 120

Campaign Objectives and Key Results A/B testing Promote 120

Search Engine Land

MAY 20, 2024

To help you put this into practice, take a copy of this templated worksheet and use it each time you need to generate some more ideas. Tactics are the short-term moves you make to gain an advantage. The canvas then helps you get “fit” between your products and services and what your customer really needs.

Non-Profits 113

Non-Profits Drivers/motivators Finance Service 113

Salesforce

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Imagine a world where you create a new product that everyone wants. Congratulations, you’ve smashed your goals! If you sell a product without attracting the right buyers and demonstrating how it meets their needs, it may just sit on the shelf. How do you avoid this and capture customer interest?

Go To Market 119

Go To Market GTM Objectives and Key Results Price 119

Salesforce

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

You’ve done your customer research, made prospecting calls, and connected with a potential buyer. But do they really want to buy, or are they just window shopping? Read on for the five signals most reps miss, and how to use them to get to close faster. But how do you know if they are interested in what you’re selling?

Contract 119

Contract Negotiate Follow-up Contact 119

SaaStr

MAY 13, 2024

And that thing I’ve learned is that you can take two brutally competitive products, that are very similar, give each a booth at SaaStr Annual, Europa or at one of our digital events… or each can try a podcast ad or do a newsletter ad … and one can walk away with more leads than you can follow up on.

Quota 90

Quota Pipeline Follow-up Start-ups 90

Martech

MARCH 4, 2024

This saves time and greatly expands what your marketing team can accomplish with limited resources. In this article I’ll provide a list of things to check to make sure your automated programs aren’t giving you or your company a big black eye. ‘Hi Include the logic of your personalization campaign in that document.

Campaign 133

Campaign Cross-sell Contact Follow-up 133

SalesProInsider

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Because of that you may want to close it out and watch more rescue dog videos (oh, maybe that’s just me). I encourage you to keep reading and not look away because what I’m discussing today is one of the key ways to increase the probability of success in your sales conversations. Want to Close Your Sales Conversations?

Conversion 105

Conversion Pitch Prospecting Drivers/motivators 105

Salesforce

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Think about the last time you watched a football game. It’s no different in sales — only instead of game rules, you use a sales cycle to make sure you’re following the right steps at the right time. Let’s take a look at the stages of a sales cycle, and how you can use it to secure regular deal wins. Probably not.

Objectives and Key Results 110

Objectives and Key Results Negotiate Sales Technique 110

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 8, 2024

In reading an article about the latest hints and tips in using AI for prospecting, a sentence stood out to me. It talked about how “mundane” outbound is. And, perhaps, it is this mindset that underlies the poor results we get from our prospecting. It’s people that do these things. What if we changed?

Prospecting 125

Prospecting Service Customers 125

Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 22, 2024

Have you ever been on the road, lost in thought, just driving down the highway (oh-oh, already sounds like a country song), when you realized you blew past your exit about thirty miles ago? One minute ago everything was perfect and then, all of a sudden, reality sets in and you’ve traveled an hour out of your way.

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Closing Entertainment Sales Prospecting 85

Search Engine Land

JANUARY 30, 2024

You’ve optimized your website for search. You’re getting lots of high-quality traffic. But despite the uptick in visitors, your sales and leads remain lackluster. There are strategies you can implement to convert that traffic into paying customers. Keep your layout consistent. The good news?

A/B testing 125

A/B testing UX Intrinsic Trust 125

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 29, 2024

He opened with, “We see this challenge…… impacting organizations like yours. We think you can be doing better……” Intrigued, it was an important issue (it always is for small businesses), I responded, “What causes you to say we face that issue and can do better?”

Start-ups 81

Start-ups Conversion Pitch Prospecting 81

Salesforce

MAY 20, 2024

We asked more than 4,800 marketers about how they’re using new data and AI tools. No matter which camp you find yourself in, we’re all trying to build better relationships that move our business forward. We surveyed marketers about how they are tackling this new era. Curious about how to create engaging content quickly?

Territory 95

Territory Follow-up Trust Start-ups 95

SalesProInsider

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

That’s how I started the first article in this two-part series about the most boring habit. And it’s the ONE key habit you should develop to have better sales conversations and success. The second layer of preparation is about the moments and minutes immediately before you initiate the conversation. Where do you begin?

Appointment 111

Appointment Conversion Follow-up Start-ups 111

Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

Many salespeople waste too much time on prospects with little to no chance of converting. Meanwhile, the good prospects they should’ve focused on have already gone cold. This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. Read on to learn more.

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Sales Prospecting Pipeline Pitch 149

SalesProInsider

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Impact is the consequence of what is going on with your prospective client, and the consequence of what will happen if they use your service and work with you. The Change Cost of Selling Your Service Think about it. The Change Cost of Selling Your Service Think about it. How might that affect your career?

Conversion 77

Conversion Finance Drivers/motivators Sales 77

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I’ve noticed a huge gap in how we equip and train our sellers, how we help them engage our customers in high impact conversations that focus on them and their problems, not pitching our projects. ” Or “What do you mean?” For example, some years ago, someone was prospecting me.

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High impact Pitch Conversion Prospecting 134

Martech

MAY 9, 2024

Understanding the “entry points” where your ideal customers first experience the acute pains your product or service can solve is critical for marketing success. They’re not actively considering your product or seeking to make a purchase; instead, they’re feeling the pain of their current situation.

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Presentation Represent Prospecting Customers 101

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 30, 2024

Then, too many of us turn around and inflict bad outbound prospecting on our own victims. 100% of the prospecting messages I see are product focused. Can I show you what results you might realize…” Sometimes, the product pitches are thinly veiled by a problem: “Is lead/demand gen a problem for you?

Product 108

Product Sell Pitch B2B 108

Martech

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If you were asked, right now, on the spot, to cite every possible source creating new contacts, leads, or supplemental data points in your CRM , could you do it? If you can answer that question “Yes!” You can stop reading here. ” with 100% confidence, congratulations!

CRM 120

CRM Contact Technology Technology 120

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 11, 2024

There are prompts for “researching and understanding” any role you might be selling to. Hacks for any type of prospecting outreach and for producing “personalized” emails by the thousands. We know how they work and shouldn’t have an expectation of much more–at least used in these ways.

Healthcare 129

Healthcare Drivers/motivators Engineering Presentation 129

SalesProInsider

AUGUST 18, 2023

The two words you should never say or ask when a prospective client shares a concern, an objection, or an unfavorable decision. This tip is about what we should do instead, which I call the Stop, Drop, and Roll. Here’s how a Stop, Drop, and Roll sounds. Just acknowledge that you heard them. That’s it.

Sales 115

Sales Pitch Clients Conversion 115

Martech

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This article outlines four steps essential to undertake at the start of your go-to-market effort before you even mention your product. There are two things to do before starting this process. Nail your value proposition. Don’t do that. Encourage your teams to study and question the plan.

Launch 109

Launch Product GTM Education 109

Martech

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A successful cold email program — or “prospecting,” if you prefer — takes careful handling. You’re reaching out to strangers one-on-one to persuade them to initiate a business relationship with you. Do people even do that anymore?) What would you do with this email?

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Pitch Contact Follow-up Clients 115

Hubspot

APRIL 15, 2024

Thoughtfully calculated, well-executed prospecting is central to virtually every successful sales engagement. It sets a tone — giving you the momentum and perspective you need to lock in on viable sales opportunities and ensure the rest of your sales process goes as smoothly as possible.

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Cold Call Territory Prospecting Sales 80