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Hitting Your Sales Goals: ‘Goal intentions’ aren’t enough

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

You had what behavioral researchers call “goal intentions,” but numerous studies have shown that these aren’t enough. What’s also needed is what the researchers call “implementation intentions.” Consider a research study of three groups of people who all wanted to exercise more regularly. Researcher Peter M.

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Sales Enablement Defined: What is the Forrester Wave?

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Executives looking for the best technology solutions to aid in their sales enablement program have various resources at their disposal, one of the best being The Forrester Wave , which was established to give a thorough analysis of vendor product and service capabilities in all verticals. History of Forrester and The Forrester Wave.

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Sales Enablement Defined: What is the Forrester Wave?

Showpad

Executives looking for the best technology solutions to aid in their sales enablement program have various resources at their disposal, one of the best being The Forrester Wave , which was established to give a thorough analysis of vendor product and service capabilities in all verticals. History of Forrester and The Forrester Wave.

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6 Ways to Generate Urgency in B2B Sales

Janek Performance Group

No one wants to miss a deal, and, in sales, time counts. Yet, according to HubSpot Research, 42 percent of sellers struggle establishing urgency. For every stalled sale, there are a multitude of excuses. It was instrumental in Kahneman winning the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics. In B2B, the sales process can be arduous.

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Why Your Buyer Personas Are Obsolete

SBI Growth

We have seen a tremendous rise in the interest and use of buyer personas since 2002. The year I first introduced the methodology for creating buyer personas specifically for marketing and sales. Buyer personas can be a big help in aligning marketing and sales around a launch. You Developed Buyer Personas Without Buyer Research.

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“Two Years Ago, The Biggest Challenges You And Your Organization Faced Were….”

Partners in Excellence

” Others are showing how to research companies to help identify the issues they face in embedding them in these 1000s of emails. I should be, I co-founded a successful AI company in 2002. This tool has, according to too many marketers, gurus, and content specialists and lazy sellers, become the future of how we engage customers.

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PowerViews with Tony Zambito: Buyer Predictability

Pointclear

In 2002, Tony established the first buyer persona research methodology designed specifically for B2B marketing and sales. Click to start video at this point — It''s important for marketing and sales to agree on the definition of a qualified lead and what criteria are met to qualify as a lead. Study Lead Behavior.

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