Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

Among the myriad of tools and strategies available, one aspect stands out: buyer personas. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience. There, he introduced the importance of buyer personas. The importance of buyer personas is self-evident.

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Today’s decision makers in the B2B industries and even now extending into the B2C markets are becoming far better educated buyers. This change in education is starting to sprout the opportunity by decision makers to ask more sales sucker questions. He was not prepared for today’s educated buyers.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2020

Reps have transitioned from simply being providers of information to providers of information and educators. After all, it’s unfair to expect a buyer to pick up on what you’re telling them right away, and what is a test other than an opportunity to reinforce knowledge? Start Educating Your Buyers.

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Education Buyer ROI Survey 79

John Barrows

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

That’s one reason it’s crucial to educate your buyers on how the buying process works at your organization. Learning about their buying and selling processes is just as important as educating them on your buying and selling process. Education at every level, means everyone knows what they’re about to get into.

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Education Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring 118

Increase Sales

JULY 16, 2016

Yet in my sales training research very few sales programs to even books on selling recognize this important key fact – The Educated Buyer. ” The salesperson instead of asking several questions to learn more about her being an educated buyer immediately went to the computer to demonstrate the wrongness of her statement.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 5, 2013

This post is written to help educate CEOs on why the number got missed. Rather than thrash about and point fingers, use this to educate yourself on where the problems lie. The CEO’s Funnel Test will help educate you on areas of opportunity in your revenue stream. Educating Yourself on the Funnel. How to Spot Issues.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Buyer beware.” We’ve all heard that expression before, and unfortunately, it’s because buyer-seller relationships haven’t traditionally been great. Some of the characteristics and behaviors that define a good-fit buyer are obvious, while others are a bit more nuanced.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 11, 2023

Think of the power available to buyers in leveraging these tools to help them think about their buying process. Think about how this tool might displace the need for sellers trying to sell, enabling more buyers to choose rep free buying experiences. But these tools are not just for us in sales, marketing, customer experience?

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2022

Are you order, seller, or buyer centric? In this world, the ideal thing is the customer has educated themselves, is knowledgeable, may have a few final questions and issues (price is always the key one), and the customer makes a buying decision. Increasingly, buyers are choosing rep-free buying experiences.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 10, 2016

A pitch by any other name is still a pitch, and no matter that wrapping, the intent still come through, and buyers still step back or away. Almost as popular, recriminate the buyer by pointing out how things have changed, and they are missing the point, “and let me tell you why…”, dragging out a horde of self-serving stats.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 19, 2018

The buyer didn’t have the ability to go online and conduct independent research; an important aspect of the sales process was the buyer’s education by the seller. Now, your salespeople should assume that they are the last place a buyer goes, not the first. Perhaps you’d purchase a buyers’ guide such as Consumer Reports.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 7, 2024

Talk like a businessperson, but don’t assume deep knowledge or expertise in your buyers' industry. Like #2 and #3, this question plays double duty — it’s a gracious statement that allows your prospect to share their knowledge, but it also shows you exactly how much your prospect knows and reveals how much you’ll need to educate them.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 8, 2013

Buyers are self educating on the web. When sales people first encounter the customer, the customer is already informed and educated. Just as buyers are self educating, sellers have the same resources available to them. Sellers can (and should) be leveraging the Web the same way buyers are.

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 29, 2013

What I need from you is to teach me how to educate my CEO. ”. Use your CEO’s questions to understand and educate him. The CEO’s thought process is like a Buyer's Journey. There are three components to understanding and educating your CEO. When would he consider hiring a consulting firm like ours? CEOs have questions.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Know The Prospective Buyer. Buyer Traits. However, you will find that they provide a good overall view of commonalities in the different types of buyers. Different Prospective Buyer Types. The Assertive: This buyer personality is often difficult to deal with. Assertive/Aggressive Buyer Tips. The Assertive.

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Buyer Prospecting Education Guarantee 120

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Understanding the nature of the buyer's journey is central to conducting sound marketing and sales efforts. What the Buyer's Journey Looks Like for Consumers in 2022. What the Buyer's Journey Looks Like for Consumers in 2022. That's not to say that more conventional media has no place in the modern buyer's journey.

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Braveheart Sales

MARCH 10, 2022

Yes, it was an educated guess based on customer-driven, value-based inquiry, further narrowed by complementary, competitive, and alternative offerings. A one-two punch of education and promotion : Education. In our first post , we addressed how to make an initial risk-mitigated, educated guess at pricing for your innovation.

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SBI

AUGUST 17, 2021

Damien : Sales intelligence and buyer intent data help customers shorten sales cycles, increase win rates, and save time by streamlining research and enabling them to focus on prospects who are actively shopping for what they sell. Q: What is the impact on organizations that adopt sales intelligence and buyer intent solutions?

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Intent Data Buyer Intent Ideal Customer Profile Intent 146

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We are constantly working with people in various stages of their buying journey, preparing for meetings, educating customers, conducting demonstrations, doing research, developing and presenting proposals. We prospect to find new opportunities, we work on deals, helping the customer move through their buying process and selecting a solution.

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Buyer Customer Face-to-face Proposal 126

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 8, 2012

If you believe buyer behavior would stand pat for a short while, you better let go of this belief. Technology interruption, good and bad, continues to alter buyer behavior and disrupt marketing. Let us look at four buyer trends bound to shake up marketing in 2013: 1. Pull out content that is clearly Product Education 101.

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Trends Buyer Marketing Revelation 330

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A trusted advisor is a salesperson buyers want to keep around. A trusted advisor knows their buyer – their personal and professional pains. Your buyer will be impressed with your insights on their current business outlook. If so, it’s time to transition from run-of-the-mill salesperson to trusted advisor.

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Positioning Buyer SAP Industry 228

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Buyers don't want to be prospected, or demoed, or closed. These steps add zero value to the buyer. Buyers are looking for additional information about your product that can't be found online. As a salesperson, you can personalize your sales process to the buyer's context by understanding the buyer's journey.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Most do not accurately follow the ebb and flow of buyers. Instead, you must account for the fluidity in the buyer’s journey. These tools help to anticipate buyer trends and keep pace with the buyer. The Persona Builder helps to track buyer anthropology with the use of LinkedIn. This isn’t a lot.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Tools Trends 307

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2023

You have to be prepared to meet them at every stage of the buyer's journey and frame yourself as a knowledgeable, reliable, trustworthy resource. Awareness and Education Stage Here, your prospect is realizing they have a problem — but they're struggling to articulate exactly what it is and, in turn, have no sense of how to solve it.

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Top of Funnel Hubspot Buyer Prospecting 101

Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 22, 2014

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Scott Chan at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Do you think something is awry when people say that a seller''s job is educating buyers? Generally speaking I cringe at the thought of taking the time to educate buyers.

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Education Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring 69

Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2018

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 ). We’ve compiled our top tips and best practices for selling to the social-savvy buyer. 4 Tips for Selling to the Social Savvy Buyer.

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Increase Sales

JANUARY 11, 2016

Yet having read this social media marketing post on LinkedIn Pulse , much of what the writer states is just as true for basic education based marketing. Today’s buyers (decision makers) want quality information told to them in an emotionally compelling story. Frankly that is insulting to today’s educated buyers.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 28, 2018

Even in the B2B space, 74 percent of buyers report doing more than half of their research this way. For example, consider industries, such as medicine or education, that have strict regulations on personal data. From casual browsing to thorough research, online exploration occurs well before customers meet a salesperson.

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Allego

JANUARY 25, 2022

Episode 38: Bringing Value to Buyers and Sellers | Terry Coutsolioutsos. I just had this really interesting conversation with my head of sales education, and we talked about creating virtual selling skills versus selling skills. Listen and Subscribe Now: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn. From This Episode.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Google 118

Highspot

DECEMBER 8, 2020

To navigate these murky waters, salespeople are increasingly relying on the concept of buyer enablement – a sales approach that makes it easier than ever for buyers to champion your product, so reps can close new business. What are the four types of buyers. How do you engage a B2B buyer? What Is Buyer Enablement?

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Buyer Examples Top of Funnel ROI 98

Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

And what better way to accomplish this believability or trust factor than through education based marketing? What this data suggests is to build believability, to build trust works far better from an education based marketing approach than the traditional sales based or product based approach. 36% require 3 hearing exposures.

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Pipeliner

JANUARY 8, 2018

Buyers Are Now in Charge! Today buyers often completely pass up the the traditional selling model, instead accessing blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and other web-based tools. measurable strategies and tactics that help buyers you don’t yet know discover you! Successful Salespeople Educate and Inform.

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The Digital Sales Institute

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

How to sell and engage buyers in the digital, remote, and noisy world is definitely a challenge we all face. The spray and pray days of contacting buyers with little more than a sales pitch to hit our sales targets have long since passed. The modern buyer demands more and expects a more personalized, tailored experience.

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Buyer How To Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face 59

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2023

Salespeople need to be able to neutralize and move past buyer objections to be successful, but there's a distinction between objections and brush-offs. If you offer up a traditional, more passive response, your buyer will continue on autopilot — not even giving you a second thought when the call ends. Dare to be different.

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Buyer Decision Maker Vendor How To 103

SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The knowledge power of buyers is growing every year. Here is what I believe I have been witnessing in buyer interviews of late: The ability to consume, discern, assimilate, and make use of content on the part of buyers is doubling every year. Buyers exposed to static content for two years straight are bound to lose interest.

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Buyer Marketing Journal Survey 282

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In this Expert Insight Interview, Douglas Cole discusses his book The Sales MBA: How to Influence Corporate Buyers. Douglas Cole is a sales leader at LinkedIn, an advisor with start-up accelerators in North America, and a part-time university lecturer at The Rotman School of Management and The Schulich Executive Education Centre in Toronto.

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