SBI Growth

MAY 4, 2013

Every year, Sales Reps are forced into mandatory training. The question Reps want answered: how does this training help me make more money? Assess the value of your training and do one of these three things: If the training is bad, then tell your manager exactly why. Their Buyer’s evolved. Your Buyer is evolving.

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Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2018

We know B2B decision makers are using social media to inform their buying decisions. In fact, a recent study suggests that 91% of B2B buyers are active and involved in social media, while 75% are significantly influenced by social content when forming their buying decisions ( source ). What is Social Selling?

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SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

Sales forces lack buyer-centered tools for success. When will Sales catch up with Marketing? Sales field alignment with the modern day buyer requires more than lip service. This blog is focused on the transformation of Sales to incorporate buyer-centered tools. Download 8 Strategic Imperatives of Buyer-Centric Selling.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Today’s B2B buyers are savvier, more informed, and have access to several options at their fingertips. What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. This makes B2B sales training more important than ever.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As a sales enablement leader, you had probably developed buyer personas years ago. There was a big announcement and possibly some training sessions, but then everyone forgot about them, and the sales reps almost certainly stopped using them. Slowly but.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. When sales reps go hunting for new buyers at this stage, audiences already expect some sort of intervention. So let’s begin our list of tips!:

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

Cross-Functional Alignment Your go-to-market strategy depends on alignment. But it’s still frustratingly common for marketers and salespeople to have different goals, operate in silos, create inconsistent messaging, and draw conclusions from disparate data. Your internal structure should enable this type of instant outreach.

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LeadFuze

AUGUST 13, 2021

Stay Ahead With These Sales Training Courses this 2021! As the profession continues to evolve at a rapid clip, current and future sales leaders must constantly self-educate with sales training courses in order to remain on the cutting edge. An ABM marketer’s objective is to provide content that is stage-specific.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Revenue teams – Companies will move beyond simply aligning sales and marketing toward revenue teams? super teams that include customer success in the same organization as sales, marketing and operations.

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BrainShark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Today’s sellers are dealing with the high expectations of savvy B2B buyers, decision-by-committee, disruptive technology, M&A, product innovations… and more. Reps need to know A LOT to be at their best in front of buyers, but has your sales training strategy kept up with the times? What about sales training programs?

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Allego

JULY 20, 2022

A sales rep schedules a meeting with a prospect, but then they receive a request to attend a training session for the exact same time. Sales training is critical. Reps must understand buyers’ needs and challenges and how to convey the value of what they’re selling. Virtual Training Fatigue. What should they do?

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Sales 2.0

APRIL 23, 2020

Buyers are wondering what the future holds for their companies–and themselves–and are having a tough time committing to purchases. If you don’t sell to the enterprise market, it’s very likely your competitors will. Adapting your sales collateral/marketing pieces to the specialized needs of large accounts.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 31, 2024

Construction: A formal, staged, milestone-centric, buyer-focused sequence of events. If you want to put the finishing touch on your custom sales process, it should include a sales-specific (not marketing) scorecard that objectively scores every opportunity for the likelihood that it will be won.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 3, 2013

She’s a Marketing VP at a B2B logistics company. The former leader never fully supported or appreciated Kathy’s marketing team efforts. The sales force neglected to utilize marketing developed sales support materials. The sales force neglected to utilize marketing developed sales support materials. Meet Kathy.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. However, user personas and buyer personas are distinctly different. There are senior executives in the C-suite (buyer personas) that have VPs and directors reporting to them, the department heads.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 6, 2016

Easier said than done, I set about researching the best way to identify key decision makers, and here’s a summary of the best advice and tips that I found. Identify the buyer (and anti-buyer) personas. I found this list of questions to help create buyer personas by Aaron Agius particularly useful. ” 3.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 5, 2016

Easier said than done, I set about researching the best way to identify key decision makers, and here’s a summary of the best advice and tips that I found. Identify the buyer (and anti-buyer) personas. I found this list of questions to help create buyer personas by Aaron Agius particularly useful. ” 3.

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Highspot

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use. In this guide, we’ll dive deep into sales training and give you the information you need to choose an impactful course for your team, including: What is sales training?

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Vengreso

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the digital era, sales professionals need to embrace social selling training to remain relevant and successful. Tips for adoption of social selling training. Digital marketing can leverage this skill to establish lasting customer loyalty and improved brand awareness. Why some companies, teams and individuals resist it.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Yet many reps struggle to get that critical first meeting with a decision maker. Social Selling is a proven method of securing the first appointment with buyers inside of target accounts. Social Selling training budgets increased 48% in 2013. Social Selling’s ‘Lead-to-Close’ conversion rate is 5x marketing sourced leads.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2021

Not involving the decision-maker. Recent research indicates that at smaller sales organizations, the inability to identify decision-makers is still a major deal killer. Deals are 80% less likely to close when a decision-maker isn’t directly involved in the experience.?So How to prep and empower your team.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The more aligned we are to the buyer’s perspective, the more effective we can be in introducing insights. Insights that inform the buyer based on their objectives. Not an artificial view of the market designed to favor our product. Often the gap on alignment is less about a market view. Buyers Done.

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Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

These barriers hurt the long-term success of sales teams because of one truth: the modern buyer has changed their decision-making process. The modern buyer has a longer journey that involves more decision-makers. Consequently, they still use traditional sales techniques to reach the modern buyer.

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Vengreso

APRIL 4, 2022

This on-demand LinkedIn training for sales professionals program teaches you how to leverage the site to create more sales conversations and build your book of business. If you have any questions or doubts about using your LinkedIn profile as part of your marketing strategy – we’re here to help!

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Chorus.ai

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If there’s one thing of value that hasn’t been changed due to the current market downturn, it’s data. That’s why making full use of data via a high-functioning sales analytics program is vital to ensure your business’s safe passage through an uncertain market.

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Emissary

MARCH 2, 2023

Achieving enterprise technology sales goals has always meant overcoming a host of unique and challenging obstacles, including withstanding a protracted decision-making process and convincing a slate of committee members of your value proposition. What are decision makers biased toward or against? What are their styles?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

How can a salesperson get the attention of decision-makers in the HR department? What’s the scope of responsibility for an HR decision-maker? In addition to the more obvious responsibilities of recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and training, HR decision-makers are responsible for purchases that affect other areas as well.

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Highspot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sales training can be like sailing the high seas – an always-on adventure where focus, navigation, and teamwork are vital. We’ve curated a collection of the best sales training tips so you can build a program that will put wind in your team’s sails to navigate an uncertain selling landscape and outperform every quarter.

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Highspot

JANUARY 18, 2024

This acronym stands as a best seller in sales strategies, aligning perfectly with the demands of the modern buyer. In this article, we’ll guide you through the SNAP essentials using industry scenarios, determining fit for your business, and offering a handy buyer’s matrix to pinpoint your ideal buyer.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For sales professionals experiencing a dip in their sales momentum, there could be an opportunity to reassess strategies beyond external factors like product quality, market competition, or economic conditions. Decision-makers have become more guarded and discerning. More and more people are involved in decisions.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Closing an enterprise sale in a niche market follows the same sales funnel as any other deal, but a bit more fine tuned. Enterprise sales, also known as complex sales, refer to the selling strategy used by large organizations involving long sales cycles, multiple decision-makers, and higher levels of risk. Enterprise Sales.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The truth is, most sales reps haven’t received any formal training in this area. 93% of sales executives have not received any formal training on social selling ( source ). 93% of sales executives have not received any formal training on social selling ( source ). Social Selling and The Buyer’s Journey.

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Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The thought of closing a large enterprise deal with more than one decision-maker involved can sound intimidating. The Miller-Heiman framework offers sellers a more effective way to close enterprise sales — deals that involve large decision-making groups and long sales cycles. Competition is fierce in any market.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Marketing and sales have switched to account-based everything, which crystallizes focus on the customer. Revenue teams – Companies will move beyond simply aligning sales and marketing toward revenue teams? super teams that include customer success in the same organization as sales, marketing and operations.

Trends 156

Trends Ideal Customer Profile InsideView Customer 156

Pointclear

MAY 23, 2018

Lead nurture can triple the return on most marketing campaigns. By nurturing leads until they’re ready to turn over to sales, an organization can eliminate wasted marketing spend and increase sales results. But it’s often the most underutilized marketing activity at a marketer’s disposal. True Nurture.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Sales professionals and buyers alike have quickly accepted and adopted this new reality. In fact, in a recent McKinsey & Company study , 80% of B2B decision makers surveyed prefer a sales model where there are more “remote human interactions” or digital self-service instead of in-person. THE TOP BUYER EXPECTATIONS.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 21, 2020

With over a hundred and one different things that could kill your cloud software business, poor marketing is the slow poison that can put it to sleep for good. With every SaaS market crowded these days— G2 lists over 2,800 solutions for “ CRM ” alone—there’s little room for error in your marketing. Product complexity.

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