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Three Key Metrics for Your 2015 Selling Effectiveness

The ROI Guy

Each stakeholder may be at a different point in the decision making process – some early: just getting a handle on the issues, and some late: already with a clear solution in mind. Advice: Sales reps need to be empowered to engage all stakeholders no matter what the “Point of Value” or where they are in the decision making process.

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5 Ways to Supercharge Your Sales Enablement Efforts

DiscoverOrg Sales

This is in spite of the fact that most of it is created for sales and channel enablement purposes. A similarly scary statistic came from Docurated’s State of Sales Productivity 2015 study, which found that salespeople only spent 1/3 of their time actually selling. As much as 80% of marketing content goes unused by salespeople.

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Why Engaging Buying Committees is Your Key to 2015 Sales Success

The ROI Guy

(CEB) At the enterprise level, there are as many as 10 members in the buying decision committee? IDC) The reality is that with more decision makers, your deals are getting more complicated, and as a result your opportunities are getting stalled, and those that close are taking longer to get approved.

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Frugalnomics in Effect - Gartner predicts 5.5% decline in IT spending for 2015

The ROI Guy

Financial justification is the new language of IT selling, where CFOs are more involved through all stages of the purchase decision, and procurement is there to demand a discount if you lead with product and price vs. value. Each has a unique point of value, what matters most to them and what drives value.

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Is Account-Based Marketing the Holy Grail for Lead Generation Nirvana? [PowerOpinions Part 4]

Pointclear

That’s what I set out to find when I presented this question to fellow industry experts: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months.

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4 megatrends for sales organizations from McKinsey

Sales Training Connection

Some 74% of B2B decision makers, for example, use LinkedIn for business reasons, while 42% use Twitter. Second, Millennials will outnumber Gen-Xers by 2015 and 75% of them use social networking versus 50% of Gen-Xers (and 30% of boomers). A new and expanding set of “superusers” who understand products extremely well.

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Gartner Raises IT Spending Forecasts – Time to Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

Gartner predicts modest go forward growth into 2015 and beyond, between 3-4% annually through 2018, a far cry from the double-digit growth in the tech-booming 90s. These are the trends of Frugalnomics, and as a result we expect that IT spending growth for 2015 and beyond will remain challenged.