In the intricate world of lead generation, timing is everything. It's not just about finding potential customers; it's about engaging them at the right moment to maximize success. The decision of when to bring in a lead generation partner is pivotal, often best done during the strategy and design phase. This allows for crucial adjustments to be made to the value proposition, guarantees, or offers, optimizing outreach effectiveness. While it may seem counterintuitive to involve a partner early on, even if immediate deployment isn't planned, the long-term benefits are undeniable.
Choosing The Right CRM: A Guide For Your Sales Team
Determining the "best" CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system for a sales team depends on various factors, including the specific needs and preferences of the team, the size of the organization, and the industry it operates in. Different CRMs offer unique features and functionalities. Here are some popular and highly regarded CRM systems that cater to the needs of sales teams:
Getting your Sales Reps up to speed… and quickly.
Ensuring new sales representatives hit the ground running is essential for maximizing productivity and contribution. Employing effective strategies can expedite the onboarding process for your sales reps. In this blog we will dive into the sales rep onboarding process and discuss how to make sure your new hires are efficient right from the start.
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Accelerating B2B Sales: 12 Strategies to Speed Up the Buying Process
Practical Applications of Fractional Sales
The overall objective and the largest benefit from a fractional sales and service team is that it's really going to amplify the effectiveness of your current team. You have an internal group of specialists who are, assumingly, well compensated, and specialists, and have years of education in your industry and company. The goal is to have them be as productive as possible, with the highest leverage opportunities as possible. We’ll review three (of several) examples that a fractional sales or service team can do to increase the leverage of your internal staff.
The Power of Multi-Channel Approach in B2B Business Development
Navigating the fast-paced world of B2B business development demands a multipurpose and strategic approach. In today's digital age, where email reigns supreme, the telephone remains a powerful tool for effective outreach. In this blog, we'll delve into the power of a multi-channel approach in B2B business development, exploring why picking up the phone can amplify your efforts and drive success.
Maximizing Opportunities: The Power of a Strategic Gatekeeper Approach
In today's competitive business landscape, effectively navigating gatekeepers is necessary for successful outreach and business growth. A strategic approach to engaging gatekeepers not only unlocks valuable opportunities but also fosters positive relationships and portrays your brand in a favorable light.
Unlocking Long-Term Success: The Vital Role of Continuous Lead Generation Across the Sales Funnel
This industry of marketing and sales strategies is constantly evolving, and it is vital to understand how lead generation is incorporated within the sales funnel. We view lead generation, or perhaps more precisely, demand generation, as a comprehensive approach to each phase of the sales funnel. If you consider the sales funnel stages, ranging from discovery to needs assessment, solution or proposal, and beyond, and you rate yourself on a scale of one to five at each of those phases, what we often see is that number goes up in a self-evaluation. For instance, a company might rate themselves highly in the later stages of the funnel, where they have experts who thoroughly understand the product and can effectively navigate through the contracting or proposal stage. However, what doesn't happen enough is maintaining the momentum of lead generation at the top of the funnel.
MQL v. SQL: How Businesses Should Define B2B Leads
The marketing funnel is a strategic tool for both B2B marketing and sales teams to use to classify leads, enhance the nurturing strategy, and more effectively measure conversions. Marketing funnels can be made up of many different stages specific to your individual B2B business but most include some version of the following six stages:
How to Run a Successful Event for B2B Lead Generation
If you’re looking to generate high-quality leads, you’re going to need to add in-person events to your B2B lead generation strategy.
Hosting a successful event takes time, planning and a solid strategy. The payoffs? Making relationships with quality leads that need your expertise and insight.
Below are the most critical steps to remember when planning a successful lead generation event.
6 B2B Prospecting Tools You Need to Grow A Business
4 Ways to Improve Your Top of the Funnel Sales Activity for B2B Businesses
The overall understanding of the B2B sales funnel is extremely important. It’s a useful tool for visualizing each prospects journey from their initial awareness all the way to their loyalty and retention. Some businesses’ sales funnels look slightly different than others in the sense that their sales cycle is much longer and includes more nurturing along the way.
There is one thing that each business has in common when it comes to their B2B lead generation funnel system, and that is the importance of fresh leads and the need to keep their funnel full.
6 Questions to Ask B2B Lead Generation Companies
So, you have taken that first step and decided to look for a B2B lead generation company, but what questions do you ask them?
With so many companies out there that do lead generation, it can be challenging to choose the right one, especially in B2B markets. Below are some of the questions that will help you and your company make that decision.
4 Ways To Use A B2B Appointment Setting Service Partner
Digital Trends B2B Companies Need to Focus on in 2020 - Part 2
Staying up-to-date is extremely important when it comes to digital B2B marketing strategies – digital trends continue to shift and change. If you didn’t catch Part 1 (Internal Digital Trends), you can find that in this blog post!
We understand that producing client work is a top priority, but don’t forget to produce quality content to market yourself as a brand.
In today’s market, it may seem hard to standout from the competition, but we laid out a couple important areas to keep in mind when advertising yourself as a B2B company.
Digital Trends B2B Companies Need to Focus on in 2020 - Part 1
B2B companies should always be up-to-date with upcoming trends, both from an internal and external point of view. If you haven’t yet begun to consider your digital marketing plan for 2020, we’re sharing some tips on trends to get that plan in place!
Below, we layout what trends your B2B brand needs to focus on in 2020 from an internal standpoint – keep these key points in mind, and your company will not only function smoother, but it will also have streamlined plan in place to help your business grow.
4 Outsourced B2B Appointment Setting Benefits
For a sales professional, attempting to find qualified, interested sales leads can be a daunting task. That’s why outsourcing lead generation and appointment-setting efforts is so important to maintain your sales funnel and increase ROI for your organization.
As your lead generation partner, we know the benefits of outsourcing appointment setting and how important it is to your company’s growth. So, whether you’re still considering whether outsourcing appointment setting or you’re ready to talk about partnering, this blog post will help you understand how beneficial it is!
4 Ways to Use Facebook for B2B Lead Generation
Using digital marketing to generate B2B leads is something that your business simply cannot skip over if you want to grow. While Facebook might not be your first choice for B2B lead generation (we see you, LinkedIn!), there are on average 1.56 billion people that log into Facebook daily. So even if your target audience is off the clock when they see your ad, you can still reach them and pique their interest.
We use Facebook advertising internally as well as for clients and want you to have success with it too! In this blog post, we are going to go over some of our favorite ways to use Facebook for B2B lead generation.
5 Tips to Make Your B2B Sales Team Successful
Whether you’re new or an experienced sales manager, I think we can all agree that managing a team of sales reps isn’t easy. We aren’t all created equal and each one of us brings a different personality and skill-set to the table. It’s your job to make sure you’re getting the most out of your team. Here are a few tips that can help make your B2B sales team successful.