Posts by Joel WWW:

Welcome to another Whiteboard Wednesday! I’m Chaz Knauft, Manager of Sales Development at DiscoverOrg, and I’m going to walk you through how to scale your inbound sales development team –...

Don’t jump to discounts right away - then it becomes a price-based purchase, not value-based. We need to revert to value-based appeal. If you lead with price, you become a price-based purchase. So any discounts should be last.

The Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is used to identify, source, and prioritize your best prospects - but how do you create an accurate ICP in the first place?

I became interested in target account marketing, which I later learned to call ABM, while tying to efficiently grow a software business. The hypothesis was that if all of our time, energy, and money was spent on a focused sales and marketing effort to convert a list of target enterprise accounts, we could grow our average sales price (ASP) - without breaking the bank.

Prospecting is a lot like online dating, the mistakes online daters make provide great illustrations to help get more leads.

First days can be stressful. Especially if you’ve just been promoted to Chief Marketing Officer. Extending far beyond traditional marketing tactics, today’s CMO shoulders vast and complex responsibilities that now...

Hi there! I’m Steve Waters, Sr. Director of Commercial Sales, and I’m here to show you how to maximize pipeline and revenue by using B2B location data in the following ways:...

The second prospecting email is even shorter, but I added a new value prop. We find these follow-up messages get 3-4 times the click-through rate that the first message does.

If you want to distribute 30 key accounts to each, provide a list of 40 candidate companies. Ask the Account Executives to weed out poor prospects, and let them propose a few alternative names of their own. Now the AE owns the list!

Dear DiscoverOrg, I’m ashamed to admit it, but my database is very small. I don’t use it very often because I know the information I’m looking for probably won’t be there. Everyone talks about “data integrity” and “data health” ... but I don’t even have enough data to worry about problems like that! Searching my database is not a satisfying experience. I don’t know how to grow my database. Is it too late for me?

With the right information in-hand, savvy sales and marketing pros might have seen it coming. Even now, we can find insights to better sell security products in a more timely and helpful way - both in response to Equifax, and in preparation for the next inevitable data security breach.

Software development might not be the first place sales professionals look to improve their win rate, but it wouldn’t be the first time that blending expertise has produced positive results....