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The Importance of Branding in Today's B2B Customer Acquisition

SBI Growth

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. Greg built a powerhouse brand by transforming ‘Yellow Freight’ to ‘Yellow Transportation’, a highly preferred brand.

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

Insight Demand

These positive/negative emotions are then transported to your conscious mind well in advance of a conscious decision. Thus, a salesperson can share a story with a customer, and due to the transportation effect of story, it feels real. It’s the next best thing to experiencing it live. ii] Daniel Kahneman, “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” p.

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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. ii] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001, Nelson Cowan, professor at Department of Psychological Sciences. It’s the next best thing to experiencing it live. i] Brain Rules, John Medina, p. University of Missouri.

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How Marketing Fails by Failing to Market Itself

SBI Growth

True Story – How I learned to execute Sales Enablement on a field ride in 2001. In 2001 I was an Account Supervisor at VML, a marketing agency. My client was the Less-than-Truckload (LTL) trucking firm Yellow Transportation. It’s time to set pride aside and invest in our selling of marketing services.

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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. A Hierarchy of Needs for IT Investment Management?

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