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Forget B2C or B2B—Focus on H2H Instead

No More Cold Calling

Whether your customers are individuals or enterprises, and whether they buy online or offline, you’re still selling to human beings. Buyers don’t really care whether we’re B2C or B2B, nor do they understand or care about all the complex jargon we use to describe our markets and products. Connect with No More Cold Calling. Comment Here.

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4 Ways to Make B2B Sales as Smart as B2C Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

With the long history of data availability available to B2C salespeople, they’re able to better track, recognize, and understand their prospects and the buying trips they take. It’s also allowed them to leverage analytics in ways only once possible by their B2C counterparts. Big Data Means Big Pain Points.

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Enterprise Sales Lessons: How I Almost Closed Google, Intuit & Oracle

Close

Enterprise sales can be a treacherous territory if you’re an inexperienced startup founder. Here’s the story of how it made my first startup go belly-up.From B2C to B2B It was mid 2007. We were a tiny team—just myself as the founder and one engineer.

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Satisfaction Guaranteed

Pipeliner

To work the issue, let’s consider a B2C example that is familiar to us all. And clearly, this B2C hotel example highlights something that doesn’t work. It’s a mistake that you’d like to think would be a rarity in the sophisticated B2B world of serving large enterprise accounts. Not by a long shot.

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Enterprise sales lessons: How I almost closed Google, Intuit & Oracle

Close.io

Enterprise sales can be a treacherous territory if you’re an inexperienced startup founder. From B2C to B2B. We didn’t know about enterprise sales. So we did it: we decided to go B2B and try the enterprise sales route. I still remember thinking “everybody says enterprise sales is so hard… this isn’t hard.

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How Enterprises Are Adopting Social Selling

Tenfold

These days, it is no longer enough to argue that enterprise companies are too big to bother with social media. And, even big enterprises are taking heed. B2B Enterprises and Social Selling. There are observed benefits from adopting social selling strategies, particularly for B2B enterprises. Right now, they are online.

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Leveraging Enterprise Sales Expertise to Accelerate out of the Start-Up Phase

SBI Growth

Joining us on the hbspt.cta.load(23541, '4e7a7e0e-dade-48a6-952f-c74186299010', {}); is Ryan Mang, Chief Revenue Officer for Axial. Axial is a private network that connects members through an online platform, intimate events, curated introductions, and the most sophisticated deal-oriented matching engine in.