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The Importance of Branding in Today's B2B Customer Acquisition

SBI Growth

In a timeless article from AdAge.com, Marty outlines what he considers to be the goals of Marketing: Sell more stuff. In the pursuit to sell more, Marty made a significant investment in branding. For an emerging brand, marketers must provide air cover for sales reps to gain traction. Marty Homlish, CMO. Make more money.

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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? We default to selling to Mr. Rational because, when we think of ourselves, we identify with our conscious rational mind.

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

Insight Demand

They have been able to prove with fMRI scans, for instance, that a story lights up the region of the brain that processes sights, sounds, tastes, and movement [v]. Thus, a salesperson can share a story with a customer, and due to the transportation effect of story, it feels real. Insight Selling' i] Brain Rules, John Medina, p.

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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. Provocation-Based Selling: Loosening the Status-Qu. Over 200% ROI from a Value Selling Program Sound I.

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