Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 16, 2013

Sales Training Article: "It Is What It Is" By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company The naïve enthusiasm of youth fades as we age. If Product Development creates an offering that isn't a good fit for buyers, Marketing dutifully creates collateral for the launch.

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Training Ideal Customer Profile Hiring Buying Cycle 58

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

To avoid activating the buyer’s confidence bias, sales reps can frame the question around industry-specific challenges and ask the decision-maker which one is on their radar. Average sales reps skip getting the buyer involved in creating the solution step, present a cookie-cutter presentation and ask, “So what do you think?”

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Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer 62

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 30, 2023

Sales teams collect and store a huge amount of customer data to train AI algorithms. But as AI learns and grows, we will see a dire need to train sales and marketing teams on how to train AI properly. Consider AI-powered solutions like Zoominfo and Dealfront to uncover prospects that display buying signals.

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Lead Rank Data Top of Funnel Cost per Lead 91

SBI

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Ian: Today’s B2B buyers trust the opinions and advice of their peers above that of any salesperson or marketer. They trust the authentic testimony of someone who’s “been there, done that, and thrived,” which is why more companies are incorporating customer advocacy into every stage of the buying cycle.

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Sales Cycle Customer ROI Scale 139

SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Develop buyer personas. Identify your ideal customers and their buying questions. In understanding common pain points and areas of interest, you can develop the right talk tracks to effectively address them during the buying process. To allay your stakeholders’ concerns, you need to think and act strategically.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Persona 105

MarketJoy

JULY 27, 2018

I’m sure you’ve heard that buyers have more power now than ever before because of all the tools and information at the buyer’s disposal. The maturation of the internet has changed the B2B buying cycle forever. Long gone are the days where buyers relied on salespeople to be their sole education channel.

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B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2C 64

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

It’s as though a poor 3-act play can be salvaged by a strong ending. Whether a retail store, buying insurance or buying a car, chances are the buyer and seller won’t ever do another transaction. They reap what they sow during buying cycles. These pressures increase when pipelines are thin.

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Closing How To B2C Insurance 40

Product Management University

MARCH 10, 2017

Sales revenue would come easier if your products had every capability that prospects thought they needed during the buying cycle. There’s still a chance your strengths outweigh your weaknesses and when they do, don’t be afraid to bring it to the attention of your prospective buyers. Unfortunately, it will never be reality.

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Buying Cycle ACT Buyer Sales Cycle 40

SalesLoft

JANUARY 19, 2017

At this time I was tasked with developing & executing sales account strategy and managing the training of all go-to-market teams. I found that the most successful SDRs, and sales development teams in general, exhibited one key ability: qualify businesses in or out quickly and act. 3) Adopt a top-down and bottom-up approach.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 52

Sales Evangelist

APRIL 19, 2019

Sellers can guide prospective customers through the purchasing journey by holding prescriptive conversations with buyers. In an attempt to help buyers make decisions, he created prescriptive tools that would help customers analyze their existing situation and compare it to the new product. Buyers are frustrated.

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Buyer Conversion Pivotal Consumer 74

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sure, it would have been easier for his team to reduce the amount of training, but that would have led to lower team morale and poor performance. This year,] it was important to maintain as much normalcy as possible, which meant continuing with scheduled training and finding new and creative ways to do so remotely.”.

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Real Estate Face-to-face Forecasting Hubspot 140

Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As Dave Mattson, CEO and President of Sandler Training explained, “Businesses need our sales team to be on the same page. This ensures that sellers are engaging customers the right way for every stage — and, in theory, effectively moving buyers to close deals. Solution Selling. Provocative Selling. Conceptual Selling.

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Sales Methodology Sales Qualified Lead Scale Top of Funnel 85

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 6, 2022

According to Forrester , sales engagement is “solutions that help sales, marketing, and post-sales personnel understand and manage their omnichannel touchpoints across the buying cycle.”. Sales intelligence tools help salespeople harness, analyze, and act on data. Sales Productivity Tools. Sales Intelligence Tools.

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Sales Tools Tools Forecasting Lead Rank 52

LeadFuze

DECEMBER 31, 2021

If the buyer is this far along in their buying cycle, youve missed your chance to influence them and it will be difficult for you to win. These types of buyers can take up a lot of time that we need for other things. 3) Recognize When You Are Acting Emotionally. Sales professionals are also human and have emotions.

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Negotiation Hiring Commission Lead Rank 52

Costello

JANUARY 15, 2019

According to the results, ‘having established buyer personas’ ranked #1 in terms of importance, followed by defined lifecycle stages, and frequent meetings between marketing and sales. Here are the options our respondents had to choose from: Defining/agreeing upon the target buyer(s)/persona(s). Define Buyer Personas.

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Lead Rank Revenue Top of Funnel Lead Scoring 105