Take Action with People in Demandbase One for Sales

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Context

In Demandbase One for Sales (formerly Sales Intelligence), you can Take Action with people to add them to Gong Engage Flows, or add or remove them from Outreach Sequences and Salesloft Cadences. This allows you to send people to sales engagement tools directly from Demandbase, eliminating the need to switch to external platforms.

You can Take Action with Known and Net New people. See the following table for information about Known vs. Net New people.

People Record Type Definition How to Identify
Known people CRM, MAS, and CSV people records with an email address. Once synced into Demandbase, the person is matched against an account using the Lead to Account Matching feature. See Understanding Lead to Account Matching

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Net New people Third party people records provided by Demandbase. These records are not in your CRM, Marketing Automation System, or CSV imports.

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The Take Action feature is available in the following areas of Demandbase One for Sales: 

  • Account Overview Tab > Top People section 
  • People tab 
  • Person profile page

Prerequisites/Preparation

You must integrate Demandbase with one of the following sales tools: 

To Take Action with Net New people records, the following requirements must be met: 

  • You must integrate Demandbase with Salesforce CRM or Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
    Important: Take Action is unavailable for Hubspot CRM.
  • The matched account must exist in your CRM. You can't create new accounts through the Take Action feature.

Steps: Take Action with Known People 

  1. Log in to the Demandbase One for Sales iFrame or web app.
  2. Go to and hover over a Known person record, click the export icon.
    Tip: Y
    ou can also Take Action with multiple people. Click the checkboxes next to multiple known people records and click the export icon.
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  3. Select one of the following Take Action options: 
    • Add or Remove from Outreach Sequence
    • Add or Remove from Salesloft Cadence
    • Add to Gong Engage Flow
      Tip: You can't remove people from Gong Engage flows.
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  4. Select assignee and workflow information from the drop-down lists. See the following articles for instructions. 
  5. Click Confirm.

Steps: Take Action with Net New People

  1. Log in to the Demandbase One for Sales iFrame or web app.
  2. Go to and hover over a Net New person record, click the export icon.
    Tip: You can also Take Action with multiple people. Click the checkboxes next to multiple Net New people records and click the export icon
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  3. Select one of the following Take Action options: 
    • Add to Outreach Sequence
    • Add to Salesloft Cadence
    • Add to Gong Engage Flow
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  4. Add Net New people records to your CRM by selecting Export people as Contacts to CRM and click Continue.
    Tip:
    • Net New people must first be added as a Contact to your CRM before you can Take Action.
    • If you don’t want to add new Contacts to your CRM and only proceed with Known people, select Proceed only with people that exist in CRM, and go to Step 8. 
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  5. Find the desired matched account from your CRM and click Select.
    Tip: You can only match people records to existing accounts in your CRM.
  6. Click Next
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  7. Select the fields you want to export to your CRM and click Export. 
    Important: 
    Make sure you select a value for required fields (Required flag in Salesforce, Business Required flag in Microsoft Dynamics).
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  8. Select assignee and workflow information from the drop-down lists. See the following articles for instructions. 
  9. Click Confirm.

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