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Pre-Call Planning: Why Sales Reps Need Competitive Intel

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We read some of them, too, and after the third or fourth one, we were struck by a surprising realization: No one is talking about competitive intelligence. This implies that competitive intelligence (CI) need not be part of your pre-call planning routine—an implication we wholeheartedly disagree with.

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11 Essential Sales Enablement Statistics for 2021

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Sales enablement statistics are useful for a number of reasons. Maybe you’re building a business case for the formalization of a sales enablement strategy and looking for quantitative data that you can use to your advantage. Maybe you’re new to the discipline and trying to quickly learn as much as possible.

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Competitive Battlecards 101: The Ultimate Guide (2021)

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Competitive battlecards (also known as competitor battlecards, or more simply as battlecards) can add a tremendous amount of value to your suite of sales enablement collateral. As industry competition intensifies, so, too, does the need for reliable, actionable intel. Basic elements to include in your battlecards.

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3 Competitive Analysis Frameworks to Try in 2021

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Competitive analysis frameworks are indispensable for anyone who wants to extract meaning from intel and inspire action across their organization. When we talk about competitive intelligence, we’re talking about a three-step process: track, analyze, act. Competitor Y parted ways with their sales leader.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Intensifying competition. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer.

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12 Actionable Outcomes of Competitive Intelligence

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Competitive Intelligence (CI) is a function that fits into every business strategy. The benefits of competitive intelligence extend across your whole organization, so it’s hard to pinpoint just one simple benefit. Let’s dig into some key actionable outcomes of competitive intelligence.

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Sales Enablement Metrics: 7 Ways to Measure Success

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Whether you’re a marketer or a sales manager, there are innumerable ways you can empower sellers to do their jobs more effectively. You can provide intel that helps them win competitive deals. Sales enablement comes in all shapes and sizes—which means there are dozens of metrics you can use to measure the success of your efforts.

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12 Tips for Selling to the C-Suite

How should frontline sales professionals approach selling to the C-suite in today’s ultra-competitive market? We called on ZoomInfo’s top sales people — including our founder and CEO — to bring you the definitive guide for selling to the C-suite.

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7 Ways to Supercharge Your ABM Strategy with Real-Time Intent

Learn how capturing buyers’ search behavior in real time can shorten your sales cycle. In this guide, we’ll walk through how streaming real-time intent data can supercharge your ABM strategy, including: How streaming real-time intent works The benefits of real-time intent in your ABM strategy How you can box out the competition

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.