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B2B Sales and Time Travel

The Pipeline

If you can’t master B2B sales and time travel, you may as well learn to serve gravy for them fries. What is B2B sales time travel? We’ll look at it in the context of time to decision, not close, but the buyer’s timeline, decision. In any given market, you have people who are actively in the midst of a decision, call them buyers.

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Prospects Are Not Buyers

The Pipeline

One blur is the line between who is a buyer and who is a prospect. Assuming buyers and prospects are the same and the words interchangeable perhaps explains the output numbers year after year. You need to accept that prospects are not buyers, which is a good thing for us. Prospects are entirely different than buyers.

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10 Incentive Travel Facts You Can Put To Good Use

Sales and Marketing Management

The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), a private not-for-profit foundation that focuses its initiatives on pragmatic research highlighting the premise and the power of incentive and motivational programs, issued a list of 10 incentive travel facts to commemorate Global Meetings Industry Day. 38 percent of all U.S.

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Personalizing CRE Marketing Campaigns with CRM Insights

Act!

Generic content just doesn’t cut it with the modern-day buyer, seller or tenant, especially when they’ve got plenty of options to choose from. For instance, Act! All you need is a CRM like Act!, Up your personalization game with Act! With a platform like Act!, which enables email marketing automation (and more!).

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How Will You Sell With A Restrictive US Privacy Policy Act?

SalesforLife

The stats are in and it’s clear that B2B buyers have changed the way they do business in this rapid change but have you or your sales team adapted to this constant change? If we are in the middle of a restrictive communication privacy era, how does that affect sales peoples’ abilities to reach out to new prospects and buyers?

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Training Incentives Are Vital in the Digital Sales Era

Sales and Marketing Management

Traditional sales incentive programs reward participants with merchandise, travel or something else (preferably not cash) for achieving a goal. As technology continues to advance, the products and services salespeople are selling are getting increasingly complex, as are the channels they sell through and buyers they sell to.

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Social Selling Applicability by Industry

SBI Growth

Legacy Buyer Industries. The reason for modest growth is medical devices, and pharmaceuticals, have persistent buyer behaviors. Innovative Buyer Industries. Buyers in these industries are rapidly changing how they buy. Buyers in these industries are rapidly changing how they buy. SOP Buyer Industries.