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The Importance of Branding in Today's B2B Customer Acquisition

SBI Growth

For an emerging brand, marketers must provide air cover for sales reps to gain traction. During Greg’s tenure, the brand ‘Yellow Freight’ went from the unpleasant designation by Fortune Magazine as the worst of five national trucking firms in the LTL industry in 1996, to #1 in the industry by 2001. Establish Trust.

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Neuroscience Confirms We Buy on Emotion & Justify with Logic & yet We Sell to Mr. Rational & Ignore Mr. Intuitive

Insight Demand

[ii] Despite widespread agreement amongst neuroscientists that our conscious rational mind plays a minor role in decision making, why do our sales messages to buyers focus almost exclusively on facts and figures? These positive/negative emotions are then transported to your conscious mind well in advance of a conscious decision.

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How to sell complexity beyond the customer’s capacity to understand

Insight Demand

Thus, a salesperson can share a story with a customer, and due to the transportation effect of story, it feels real. For more information on how to wrap your sales insights up in a customer scenario, please refer to my new book Insight Selling- Sell value & differentiate your product with Insight Scenarios.

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How Marketing Fails by Failing to Market Itself

SBI Growth

One of the most difficult responsibilities for a B2B marketer is sales enablement. What makes it difficult is the lack of adoption and rejection by sales. The sales field is often critical of any marketing effort. Even when you do everything sales asks for it’s never enough, never right, or simply forgotten.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The IT Hierarchy of Needs: Categorizing.

The ROI Guy

For first world countries, the lower needs are viewed as commonplace commodities, while the focus moves towards meeting higher end needs of home, transportation, careers, vacations, hobbies and spiritual fulfillment. The Big O – Outcome Selling The Demand Spectrum and Value-Based Sales & Market. Let the Good Times Roll?

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