Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Author: Alicia McCarty As we are all very well aware, today’s buyers expect us to speak to them personally, not in their general direction; increasingly, customers want businesses to know what they want before they do and to serve them hyper-targeted, relevant content and offerings. It just isn’t possible. Are they already using a competitor?

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Salesmate

JANUARY 19, 2021

Enterprise sales was a distant idea to me. And writing an article on it, almost an impossible task for an enterprise newbie like myself. And so I decided to consult my friend Jay, an enterprise sales expert. How do you manage to excel at Enterprise Sales, Jay?” What is Enterprise Sales?

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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. It represents the culmination of ‘art’ and process, where the enterprise sales process is modified to better reflect the client’s unique and specific needs. What Is Enterprise Level Sales?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 16, 2019

And there’s no question that B2B sales is a battlefield: Reputations, sales, and profits are lost and won. Nowhere is this more critical than in enterprise sales, where understanding an organization’s corporate hierarchy can illuminate the battlefield. Uncovering enterprise buying centers. All of this takes time.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

And while it’s not hard to find basic business data — company names, phone numbers, employee counts, revenue, maybe direct dial numbers and email addresses — today’s complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers. What is Sales Intelligence? What Do Sales Intelligence Tools Do?

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Salesmate

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Enterprise sales is undoubtedly a hard nut to crack. Businesses can easily trust you when they see the testimonial from renowned enterprises. Businesses can easily trust you when they see the testimonial from renowned enterprises. A different and long pathway while selling to enterprises. – Robert Coller.

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Emissary

AUGUST 4, 2020

economy expected to decline by 6 percent or more in 2020, it isn’t the easiest time to be in enterprise tech solution sales. Organizations and buyers have likely achieved the situation that they will be in for some time. Where do IT buyers sit amid this change? How Do Tech Buyers Buy? Click to Download.

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Sales 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2023

The last decade, or so, has been the era of bringing science to sales, or certainly mathematics. The advent of more powerful computing and the increase in investment in sales technology has produced an ocean of data ready for those of us who love to crunch numbers. Do you need an Enterprise Selling Plan (ESP)?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Though the Harvard Business Review prematurely declared it dead a decade ago , today’s top sellers have found new ways to leverage solution selling that speak directly to the attitudes and needs of modern buyers. Related: Top 14 Sales Methodologies for Your Selling Systems. Table of contents. What is solution selling? Simple, right?

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Accent Technologies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Remember when Sales Enablement primarily meant collecting and creating the critical content that sales and other customer-facing teams needed to engage with prospects and customers? And then making those materials easily shareable with buyers? And that’s the way the big analysts saw it—Gartner, Forrester, et al.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 11, 2024

Sales leaders recently gathered to discuss the many ways that buyers are changing. As Amari Gonzalez writes for LinkedIn : “Over the past few months, we sat down with some of the most innovative sales leaders today … And [we] asked them how they are connecting with buyers.” Sellers need to be aware of these shifts.

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MEDDIC

MARCH 28, 2024

If you are an enterprise B2B account executive, the beginning of a quarter is a critical time to set the stage for success and to crush your goals. Here’s what a strong review process entails: Three Whys from Sales Wins: Ask the champions within the accounts you closed: Why did they sign anything? Why did they sign now?

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Welcome to the age of the informed consumer, or the digital buyer … or “Buyer 2.0.”. In fact, 86 percent of business buyers engage in research independent of the sales cycle. Some take this to mean that our prospects and clients don’t really need us anymore—that the automation of selling has made salespeople irrelevant.

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Apptivo

APRIL 27, 2022

All About Enterprise Resource planning. ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning , is a type of system or software used by organizations to manage processes and automate activities such as accounting, project management, risk management, compliance. Connect with buyer networks based on data. The Sales module.

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Zoominfo

MAY 18, 2022

Today’s new world of insight sales is powered by data. Companies rely on accurate and comprehensive B2B intelligence to identify new opportunities for growth, prospect and prioritize accounts, expand customer intelligence , surface insights, connect with customers, and close more deals. But all data sets are not created equal.

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Zoominfo

MAY 18, 2022

Today’s new world of insight sales is powered by data. Companies rely on accurate and comprehensive B2B intelligence to identify new opportunities for growth, prospect and prioritize accounts, expand customer intelligence , surface insights, connect with customers, and close more deals. But all data sets are not created equal.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The problem with most call scripts salespeople use for proactive direct prospecting is that they are prepared for sellers, by people who are not buyers, and as a result, there is little for the prospect to grab and hang on too long enough to convert to engagement. A Race To The Wall. No Problem.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Effective sales prospecting is a multistep process that requires systematic prospect discovery, qualification, and outreach. In this post, you’ll learn the 19 best sales prospecting tools to help you engage with your ideal prospects. What Is a Sales Prospecting Tool? Engage with your prospects.

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Allego

JULY 20, 2021

Are you ready for today’s new buyer? The management team was a group of busy executives who had many other issues to handle, and they wanted to quickly make a decision about the value of investing in Michael’s enterprise software platform during a pandemic. . It’s the same with sales. B2B buying has changed, possibly forever.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 27, 2014

Your buyer will move on to your competition—after trashing your reputation and brand on social media. There’s an old saying in sales: Good, fast, cheap. Buyers value speed, which means salespeople must always be prepared to move quickly when opportunities arise. Every buyer isn’t your customer. Be Realistic.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2023

The software buyer's journey has shifted dramatically over the past few years. As G2's Director of SMBs, Mike Buscemi , puts it: "Software buyers today act like B2C consumers because they have so many options. Buyers have an abundance to pick and choose from.". In 2022, many buyers don't trust sales.

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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 ). But—as B2B marketers and sales professionals—we have a lot to learn about social selling. What is Social Selling?

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Sales Hacker Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Transitioning from mid-market selling to enterprise selling isn’t easy. In part two, we are going to look at 5 go-to-market prerequisites that you need to consider if your expedition into enterprise is going to be a success. Sales strategy. 1) Marketing: Does your marketing appeal to enterprise orgs?

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The Pipeline

MAY 18, 2021

It’s not news that the buy side has more stakeholders involved , representing the varied interests of a modern enterprise. As you’ll recall, we have an actionable definition of value , easy to follow, easy to sell. “Buyers will see value in things that measurably move them closer to their objectives. By Tibor Shanto.

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No More Cold Calling

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Mark, a salesman with an enterprise company, invited me to connect on LinkedIn. He is a sales stalker—someone who blasts out dozens of invites and then lies in wait, ready to pounce with an unwelcome sales pitch the moment anyone responds. The second you respond, you get a sales pitch. Their outreach took too long.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 22, 2020

Like it or not, brands like Amazon set the gold standard for buyer experience. Well, in addition to being expert data collectors, Amazon mastered the art of meeting the buyer where they are. This comedy of errors happens all too often for B2B buyers. Is a B2B sale more complicated than an Amazon transaction? Absolutely.

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criteria for success

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Having a strong enterprise sales process is a sure-fire way to ensure some type of sales success. It’s important to consider your team’s ideal buyer personas as well as the type of offerings they’re responsible for selling when creating a sales process. This type of sales team required a nuanced sales process.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This year, many brands were forced to drastically change sales tactics during the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic uncertainty that came with it. While some companies saw sales pipelines slow down dramatically , others saw them speed up to the point where it was challenging to keep up. Focus on the right sales metrics.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Winning large business contracts leads to increased revenue — but selling solely to large enterprises isn’t necessarily sustainable for a sales strategy. One of its benefits includes connecting directly to primary decision makers instead of dealing with groups of buyers and chains of execs. Why Divide Enterprise and SMB Sales?

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John Barrows

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Jake Dunlap joins us on the podcast this week to talk about where and why the prospecting/sales process is broken. Jake’s seen a lot of companies change their thinking on sales methodologies, activity metrics and their general approach to the sales process. Sales Methodologies… The Problem.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Sales reps can easily lose a successful sale if they don’t have the right tools or framework to work with. Both market and sales intelligence fall under the umbrella of lead intelligence, which collectively gives comprehensive insights about prospects. What is Sales Intelligence? What is Market Intelligence?

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 19, 2012

Technology may power sales research, but people power the close. Nothing has really changed in the sales world, although many pundits rant about the “new normal,” “new realities,” Buyer 2.0, They talk about the “informed buyer.” Is the so-called Buyer 2.0 Yes, prospects research us and know about us.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2021

Investing in buyer intent data is one of the best ways to differentiate yourself — now, more than ever. And those that have adapted, now grapple with stronger competition and shifting buyer behavior. And those that have adapted, now grapple with stronger competition and shifting buyer behavior. Improving account-based targeting.

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InsideSales.com

MAY 11, 2021

SILICON SLOPES, Utah, May 11, 2021 / PRNewswire / — XANT, the enterprise leader in Guided Sales Engagement, announces the release of PeopleFinder, a Playbooks feature that identifies buyer behaviors and recommends additional ideal contacts for reps to engage so they can stop guessing and focus on selling.

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Zoominfo

JULY 12, 2021

Imagine your sales team is extremely close to signing an important deal with a prospect. But then, unexpectedly, the buyer pushes back, not sure if this is the best time. The idea is “to let a client know their best interests are in mind,” says Steven Wernke, director of sales at ZoomInfo. Why Bring in the CEO.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2021

People like Hank Barnes , Scott Gillum , Ardath Albee , and Maureen Blandford are doing some great work in helping us rethink the question of “Who is our buyer?” ” In addition to helping us define our buyers in much richer terms, they are helping us think about how to incite them to buy. The post Who Is OUR Buyer?

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SBI Growth

MARCH 16, 2018

Our guest on SBI TV is Stephen Mohan, SVP of North American Sales for XPO Logistics. Stephen has led several enterprise sales forces and is the perfect guest to discuss how to execute in the enterprise. To follow along, leverage SBI’s.

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