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Chairs are Dead—and Other B2B Marketing Hogwash

Pointclear

Earlier today I was talking to my wife about the B2B marketplace. I casually said what we do, which is outbound business development for B2B companies, is not old fashioned, it is timeless. You may have seen this tool before, but you may have to use it in a way that is different from how it was intended.

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Sales climate warming?

Sales 2.0

We may be entering a “new, new era” of selling—an era that takes us back to good old-fashioned relationship selling. Up to this point many of the tools available to sales teams have encouraged volume-based sales techniques, like mass emailing and cold calling. We will use fewer cold approach techniques.

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Top 10 Social Selling Tools for the Modern Sales Rep

Zoominfo

B2B buyers spend 27% of their purchase consideration time conducting independent research online , compared to only 5–6% with a sales rep. B2B buyers consume an average of 13 pieces of content before choosing a vendor with 53% of that content found on social media. Top 10 Social Selling Tools 1.

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Sentiment Analysis: A Primer for B2B Marketers

Zoominfo

‘Emotions’ and ‘feelings’ aren’t words that come up often in the B2B world. B2B products tend to be complex and more practical than flashy– so B2B organizations often value logic and reason over emotions. . But, emotions play a larger role in B2B purchase decisions than you may realize. Enter, sentiment analysis.

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Sentiment Analysis: A Primer for B2B Marketers

Zoominfo

‘Emotions’ and ‘feelings’ aren’t words that come up often in the B2B world. B2B products tend to be complex and more practical than flashy– so B2B organizations often value logic and reason over emotions. But, emotions play a larger role in B2B purchase decisions than you may realize. Enter, sentiment analysis.

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Putting Differentiated Value in B2B Value Calculators

Mereo

A value calculator seems like a selling organization’s dream come true: a tool that can actually demonstrate your solution’s real worth to a buyer. When it comes down to it, not many B2B organizations build value calculators that achieve the results they are supposed to achieve. The Mereo Approach: B2B Value Engineering 2.

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Five Tips for Being a Better B2B Sales Manager

Sales and Marketing Management

The challenge here is pulling all the necessary information from various sources and presenting it in a sensible fashion. The B2B world is increasingly on-the-go, and – as I’ve mentioned above, increasingly competitive. The number of spreadsheets, graphs and tables can overwhelm even the most experienced of sales managers.