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Prospects Are Not Buyers

The Pipeline

One blur is the line between who is a buyer and who is a prospect. Assuming buyers and prospects are the same and the words interchangeable perhaps explains the output numbers year after year. You need to accept that prospects are not buyers, which is a good thing for us. One Is Willing.

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B2B Sales and Time Travel

The Pipeline

If you can’t master B2B sales and time travel, you may as well learn to serve gravy for them fries. What is B2B sales time travel? We’ll look at it in the context of time to decision, not close, but the buyer’s timeline, decision. In any given market, you have people who are actively in the midst of a decision, call them buyers.

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How to Adapt to the Well-Educated Modern Buyer

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Kelly Bosetti Salespeople once played a significant role in educating buyers about their options and helping them come to a decision regarding a product or service, but times are changing. Because of this, it’s no surprise that the buyer’s journey has undergone a fundamental shift. Reaching More Educated Buyers.

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The Pandemic, What Buyers Discovered

Partners in Excellence

” With the inability to travel or actually meet F2F, we had to find a new method for engaging our customers. We’ve learned that reducing travel frees us up to spend much more time actually “meeting” with customers. ” We have always thought of things in terms of a seller interaction directly with a buyer.

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Why Digital Sales Rooms Work for Buyers AND Sellers

Allego

Like consumers in the B2C space, business buyers have developed new habits during the pandemic. McKinsey research shows that 80% of buyers now prefer virtual engagements, and companies that add the human touch to digital sales achieve twice the return to shareholders. The buyer’s goals align perfectly with yours as a seller.

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Matt, Kyle, and the Less-Traveled Road to Customer Retention

DiscoverOrg Sales

The idea was based on the Sales Development Rep/Account Executive relationship: The AEs get to come in and have meetings already set up – so they can spend their time with prospective customers. You can watch it here: What is marketing and sales intelligence – and what can it do? What do your buyers think about salespeople?

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Travel Light to Your Next Sales Presentation

Increase Sales

The travel heavy sales and marketing practice originates from the product or sales based marketing approach. Today’s buyers are far more receptive to education based marketing. All engagements with potential customers, prospects or buyers must be about them not you or your stuff (products and services).

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