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Demand Gen vs. Lead Gen: Which is ‘Best’ for Startups?

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Lead generation has matured immensely as a marketing discipline over the past decade, with more tools and data available than ever before. Sales enablement Includes playbooks, ROI tools, and battle cards 4. When you’re starting out, you may need to spend fairly equally across demand creation and sales enablement.

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Marketing Leaders indicate Sales Enablement Tools as key for 2010 Success

The ROI Guy

This reverses the downward trend, where in 2009 spending dropped 8.3% on average. The full report can be found at: [link] A synposis PPT can be found at: [link].

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. Sales Enablement Ineffectiveness? So why are the sales enablement investments not paying off?

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Frugalnomics Forces Changes in Sales Enablement

The ROI Guy

As defined by Forrester, "Sales enablement is a strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right set of customer stakeholders at each stage of the customer's problem-solving life cycle to optimize the ROI of the selling system.”

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Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer

The ROI Guy

As a result of Frugalnomics and other market drivers: 62% of B2B vendors indicated they needed more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, 72% indicated an increase in buying cycle time over the past 6 month, The buying cycle timeframe has increased over 10% in the past 12 months. How Do You Fight Frugalnomics?

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Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enablement Investments?

The ROI Guy

According to Andrew Gaffney in his article Marketers Shifting Focus To Sales Enablement To Accelerate Slow Pipelines , “Deals expected to close in the current quarter are often getting clogged and pushed out later in the year. So how is the sales enablement role evolving within b2b vendors? Productivity is a science.

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How Does 2023 Go Down in Selling History? Mereo Principals Share These Reflections

Mereo

This pattern is similar to what we saw in the 2008 / 2009 recession. Sales needs differentiated solution capabilities to build a value proposition and a reliable roadmap to maintain strong client relationships and a competitive offering to reinforce price points. When they did not have that clarity, they froze.