Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

There’s no reason it can’t have equally powerful impacts on B2B sales and marketing, but it’s in its infancy, experts say. “AI AI is the future of all sales, but it hasn’t gone from 0-1 yet in the B2B space,” says George Kocher, CEO of Brand North, a digital marketing and growth consultant.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Scale Lead Rank 218

MarketJoy

JULY 27, 2018

The maturation of the internet has changed the B2B buying cycle forever. This white paper will give you a road map for how to attract more customers and win more deals in a rapidly changing B2B landscape. Major differences between B2B and B2C. Today’s B2B buyers rarely act alone.

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B2B Lead Rank Lead Scoring B2C 64

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As a B2B marketer or sales professional you have a number of things battling for your attention at any given moment. Especially In The B2B Realm?) Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions.

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Prospecting Scale Lead Nurturing Campaigns 130

SBI

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. This week I interview Ian Levine , Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of RO Innovation. No database searching or guessing.

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Sales Cycle Customer ROI Scale 139

SBI Growth

AUGUST 29, 2013

This statement covers B2B, B2C and B2G. As buyers are evolving, we’ve seen a strange breed of sales professionals actually devolving. True Story: I recently had the opportunity to interview a regional VP of sales for a Fortune 100 company. Further, he has a division of 120+ sales reps in his immediate organization.

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Social Media Media B2G Ideal Customer Profile 300

Lead411

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

B2B data is a critical driver toward profitable growth. When searching for a reputable data provider, you may come across a comparison between two of the top B2B data providers available: Lead411 and Zoominfo. Yes (but only after speaking with a sales representative). Lead411 offers flexible terms and pricing. Intent Data.

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Ideal Customer Profile Intent Data Hiring Intent 98

Pipeliner

JANUARY 2, 2020

According to a recent forecast by Forrester Research (one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world), “ 1 million US B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service eCommerce by 2020, accounting for 20% of the B2B sales force.” It doesn’t!

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Telecommunications Face-to-face B2C B2B 93

SugarCRM

AUGUST 11, 2021

You’re basically in sales, right? Personalized content has been a no-brainer in the B2C world for many years now, but what about B2B buyers? In today’s content-driven world, personalization is becoming more and more important for new, digitally savvy, fast-paced B2B buyers as well. No wait, you do advertising?

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Buyer Marketing Buying Cycle Campaigns 49

SBI

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to talk about Selling as a Buying Experience. NANCY: WHAT ARE THE TOP WAYS COMPANIES CAN TRANSFORM SALES TO IMPROVE THEIR PROSPECTS’ BUYING EXPERIENCE IN THE NEXT 12-24 MONTHS? . This same mindset is now emerging for B2B. This means stepping up in four key areas.

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ROI B2C Consumer Buying Cycle 117

Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2011

If you’re in sales, you might think this is an odd question or you might have a stronger, more visceral reaction to the question—“Marketing doesn’t sell, we do!” The line between sales and marketing is becoming more blurred every day. Marketing now owns the top of the traditional sales funnel.

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Demand Generation Agencies Lead Rank Top of Funnel How To 219

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Sales Tips: Suggested New Years Resolutions. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. I hope you agree that changes in buying behavior have outpaced changes in selling approaches by a wide margin over the last 15 years or so. Need some help to increase sales?

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B2C Margin Buying Cycle Proposal 40

Partners in Excellence

MAY 22, 2014

In my post, Principles Of Sales, Part 1, Interactions Between People , Brian MacIver (@Palayo) made a brilliant observation–frankly something that I hadn’t paid much attention to. We tend to think Buying and Selling go hand in hand. Think of many of the cloud based services we buy–without sales involvement.

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Face-to-face B2C Buying Cycle Channels 92

Customer Centric Selling

JULY 28, 2015

Sales Tips: What Happens When Inmates Get the Keys? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. There is an enormous spectrum of selling approaches and skills being used in B2B sales today. It is a brave new world for companies considering large B2B offerings.

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Vendor Buying Cycle Scale B2C 40

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

One of the common complaints I’ve heard from Sales executives is that their people aren’t strong closers. Many peoples’ impression about selling and closing is based upon experiences they’ve had in B2C transactions. The realization that if you leave they will likely lose the sale causes them to use high pressure closing tactics.

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Closing How To B2C Insurance 40

The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. The Death of a Salesman?

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ROI B2B Social Media Buying Cycle 40

LeadFuze

MAY 11, 2021

What is B2B Sales Experience. B2B sales experience is the experience that a business-to-business customer has while they work with you. This can include the process of how to buy, when, and what type of support they get, as well as any other interactions from your company. Image Source: ELMENS ). Market size.

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B2B B2C Sales Cycle Top of Funnel 95

Customer Centric Selling

JULY 3, 2013

Sales Training Article: Where''s All This Buying? This lack of revenue growth flies in the face of technology-assisted B2B buying activity as people leverage the Internet and social networking to research offerings on their own. B2B vendors closely monitor website activity and it proceeds at a healthy clip.

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Training Buying Cycle Hiring Vendor 45

Zoominfo

AUGUST 23, 2022

For B2B sales leaders, these challenges become even more pronounced. The B2B software market has undergone immense changes in recent years. Before COVID, sales had traditionally been an in-person endeavor. Data from McKinsey reveals that less than one-third of all sales-related activity takes place in person.

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Trends B2B Decision Maker Scale 100

Customer Centric Selling

MAY 13, 2015

Sales Tips: Empower Your Prospects, Don't Sell Them. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In doing so, it is important to be aware of the widespread, unflattering stereotype of salespeople that is largely based upon negative B2C experiences early in our lives.

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Vendor B2C Buyer Buying Cycle 40

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Two economic downturns over the past decade have made buyers more spendthrift, and more skeptical of vendor claims.

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Buying Cycle Marketing Comparison Vendor 45

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

AUGUST 14, 2009

In contrast to this, CSO Insights in their Sales Performance Optimization – 2009 Survey and Analyzes, report that about 52% of the leads salespeople are working on, are self generated by the salespeople. One possible explanation for this discrepancy could be that a shift has already occurred how field sales forces are used.

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Leads Marketing Qualified Lead B2C Buying Cycle 40

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 26, 2016

Usually, the sales cycles are longer, typically months to years. When I refer to a simple buying process, it is typically one that involves very few decision makers–usually just one. Implementation issues, change management issues are pretty small, buying cycles are usually short–several meetings over days/weeks.

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Scale Face-to-face Lead Rank Chemicals 48

Zoominfo

JUNE 15, 2022

Profiling customers allows you to better understand the problems your would-be buyers are attempting to solve, which helps revenue professionals do their jobs more effectively at every stage of the customer buying cycle. Profiling prospective customers also enables sales and marketing teams to predict larger problems before they arise.

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Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Customer Demand Generation Agencies 130

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Author: Matt Amundson The world of business to business (B2B) selling is like a gridiron. Growth – more opportunities, higher sales velocity and expanding market segments – is the prize of victory and the successful growth hacking tactics of business to consumer (B2C) companies are becoming more popular in B2B.

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Demand Generation Targets Ideal Customer Profile Marketo Hiring 222

Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2020

Have you ever answered a phone call from a sales rep that couldn’t remember the details of your account? A 360-degree approach to viewing and managing customer relationships supports efforts at every stage of the sales funnel. B2B professionals can analyze decision-making processes and build better communication with stakeholders.

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Ideal Customer Profile Customer Lead Rank Top of Funnel 246

Zoominfo

MAY 21, 2021

But they’re not asking your sales team for help. The average B2B buyer is mostly finished with the buyer journey before they ever engage with a salesperson. Intent data is type of sales intelligence that shows which leads or accounts are actively researching on third-party sites. Get a Demo How Do You Use B2B Intent Data?

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Intent Data Intent Lead Rank Data 130

Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2020

Have you ever answered a phone call from a sales rep that couldn’t remember the details of your account? A 360-degree customer view approach to managing relationships supports efforts at every stage of the sales funnel. A 360-degree customer view approach to managing relationships supports efforts at every stage of the sales funnel.

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Ideal Customer Profile Customer Lead Rank Top of Funnel 130

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Sales Tips: OOPS - Are You Closing the Wrong Person? Anybody that has seen the movie Glengarry Glen Ross will remember Alec Baldwin's role as a high-powered sales manager addressing a tired group of salespeople. His advice to “always be closing” probably caused many B2B sellers to cringe. But B2B selling is different.

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Closing Decision Maker B2C Proposal 40

LeadBoxer

JUNE 13, 2021

This article will discuss how the buying cycle and content mapping can guide your lead nurturing strategies to ensure that the customer journey is effortless. Creating lead nurturing campaigns has become one of the most successful ways to transform leads into sales. Both B2B and B2C companies are familiar with the strategy.

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Lead Nurturing Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Lead 53

PandaDoc

MARCH 7, 2023

Many that work in sales choose the field because of the flexibility and edge-of-your-seat experience that implementing a sales strategy involves. While this is a good thing, it doesn’t mean your sales cycle should be completely unstructured, without any roadmap. What is a sales workflow? What is a sales workflow?

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Qualification Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel 52

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 12, 2015

All the talk in B2C and B2B these days is “omnichannel.” ” The B2C world has actually changed profoundly, and will continue to do so. We’re just seeing and starting to address the implications of omnichannel in the B2B world. Manufacturers are starting to embrace the concept.

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Channels B2C Margin Face-to-face 48

Jonathan Farrington

JANUARY 10, 2012

But of course, as soon as we move into a B2B environment, we become instantly suspicious of professional sales staff who are too nice; too accommodating; too agreeable. In the sales arena, the opposite of being liked is total ambivalence! Published by Jonathan Farrington at 12:32 pm under General. Actually it isn’t.

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Real Estate Hotels B2C Face-to-face 34