A Sales Guy

MAY 20, 2012

Today, I’m gonna help the buyer. Bad buying happens when buyers treat sales people as the enemy. When this happens, the buyer loses as much as the sales person. ” When we are buyers, we have a problem. ” When we are buyers, we have a problem. This post is gonna go a different route.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2022

But a large part of our business is RFP’s. We’re constrained by the structure of the process of the RFP’s, how do we help customers with that.?” Many of those organizations are mandated to manage purchases through a RFP process. ” As a result the focus is on pitching products.

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Government Buying Cycle Construction Up-Sell 76

The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

Assuming your target buyer was one of these commuters, what are they thinking about while in routine traffic? Many sellers only deal with buyers already in Decision mode. Many sales organizations exclusively compete for and capture these buyers. into the hopper and ferret out that small percentage of ready buyers.

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 10, 2011

It’s great support for yesterdays post, Passive Buyer’s Aren’t Buyers at All. In cases like this, which our research shows can be nearly 20 percent of all sales opportunities, the customer will assign a more junior member of their organization to field an RFP and meet with other possible vendors.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The key is to identify which RFPs give you the greatest probability of being chosen, and respond only to those. It seems simple, but let’s start with the foundational: what an RFP is, how to separate the good opportunities from the bad, and then how to begin responding to an RFP. What Is an RFP? When to Politely Decline.

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Allego

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

>> Download your All-in-One Sales Enablement RFP Kit to learn how to create a comprehensive RFP and keep the evaluation process on track. Create a Request for Proposal (RFP) and send it to qualified vendors. Make sure you do as much research as possible on vendors before sending out your RFP.

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 14, 2020

Of all of the bad advice around sales, the most reckless and worst counsel you will read from charlatans and know-nothings is the idea that your buyer has all the power in the relationship, that they are some large percentage through their buying process, and that you should wait for them to reach out to you.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

When you offer the Buyer too many choices they don’t chose anything at all. Your job as a Sales Rep is to provide the best solution to the Buyer’s problems. Use the Solutions Options Framework to guide your conversation with the Buyer. How your buyer presents your solutions to others when you’re not around.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 12, 2021

Develop and deliver an insightful RFP template for customers. If there’s one thing that sales, marketing and customer success can agree on, it’s that RFPs kind of suck. Despite all this, RFPs are ultimately helpful to the customer, which is why they’re likely here to stay. How to write your own RFP template for customers.

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Revenue Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face 83

SBI Growth

MAY 27, 2013

For example, consider receiving an RFP. All RFP requests begin in the same stage. Instead, he embedded a “Buyer Behavior” sheet on the opportunity within the CRM system. Here’s a generic Buyer Behavior sheet we use. Here’s a generic Buyer Behavior sheet we use. Deal forecast accuracy increased tremendously.

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Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Sales Training Article: 3 Steps to Avoid Death by RFP. Why are RFPs wearing you out? Your team is responding to RFPs that they have little chance of winning. In this post we will discuss how to avoid the RFP plague. We are offering free expert advice on how to avoid the RFP plague.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Once you’ve figured out the most pressing problems your product solves for buyers, develop a set of questions that’ll help you diagnose prospects. Having the right questions prepared means you’ll spend the majority of the sales conversation focused on the buyer and their company, rather than your product and its features.

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Solutions Selling Retail Face-to-face Sales Methodology 135

The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2020

As your buyers are taking care of Q2, their future is being reshaped. But expand their thinking by challenging their assumptions and you’ll shape their thinking and RFP. Back To Buyer’s Remorse. You can dramatically eliminate buyer’s remorse with one easy step. All you need to do is watch the news.

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Outsourcing Services Real Estate Ideal Customer Profile Objections 279

Crunchbase

MAY 9, 2023

Especially now, as the macroeconomic environment becomes more challenging, public servants are an attractive new category of buyer for startups. I previously served on the innovation team for the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, and today I’m the founder of Pavilion , a startup marketplace connecting public buyers and businesses.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

One way they do this is through actionable buyer intelligence. They bring buyer insights to the sales team that can be easily leveraged in sales campaigns and prospecting. Get started on buyer insights by downloading the Buyer Research Guide. Buyer Process Maps. Buyer Personas. Social Listening.

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Partners in Excellence

MAY 10, 2022

It presents fascinating perspective and research on indecision and how we can help buyers complete their buying process. Related Posts: Sales People Build Your Personal Brand And Thought… Insight And Challenging Without Outcomes Is Just Dreaming Love The Insight, I'll Write A RFP! Be sure to order an advanced copy!

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2012

Much of this has been driven by the vast availability of information available to buyers on the web. Research indicates that buyers aren’t engaging sales people until they are 60-70% through their sales process. If sales people don’t up their game, then they are relegated to being RFP fodder. The bar has been raised.

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Buyer Education Journal Social Media 93

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2015

Buyers Get Smarter Through The Buying Cycle. Buyers get smarter through their buying cycle. RFP’s Suck! Love The Insight, I’ll Write A RFP! Andy Paul and I exchanged emails on my post The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle And Selling. He had written a similar post [See Here]. Related Posts: Wake Up!

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LeadFuze

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

When buyers and procurement managers are evaluating proposals, there are five common themes that can be fixed if you know what to look for. You may be excited about the new RFP, but as soon as you start reading it and recognize that it sounds similar to other requests for proposals, your eyes glaze over. With the role of HR Manager.

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Anthony Iannarino

AUGUST 28, 2020

Economic Buyer: One of the significant business changes is that managers have financial responsibility for their area. Because decision-makers seek consensus, there may be multiple economic buyers. The responsibility has been pushed down to the person with direct control in many cases.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Enterprise software sales usually involves a multi-stage process in itself, with several phases including RFP, demonstrations, references, review meetings, which together can take months. Uneducated Buyers. With a large group, your buyer may have a well intentioned decision making process (i.e.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

With 58% of B2B buyers doing their own research before engaging with sales reps , many buyers are over halfway through the sales process before even speaking with a rep. This can result in the buyer getting a better deal than they would otherwise. Buyer publishes a request for proposal or request for quotation.

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Government Proposal Competition How To 70

Pointclear

AUGUST 16, 2018

They’ve indicated they have a short buying cycle and they’re eager to talk, but what these buyers may be doing is validating a decision already made. Often hot leads are really buying companies that have already been sold by another vendor. Longer-term opportunities increase marketing ROI.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 26, 2023

And even if you turn down an RFP, that doesn’t mean the opportunity is lost. "If It's the salesperson's responsibility to educate the buyer on their solution's value. Some buyers will never grasp the message — and you'll simply waste your breath if you keep trying. They’ll point you to the people who can actually ink a deal.

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Prospecting Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring 112

Crunchbase

JUNE 22, 2021

Second, we find that when a buyer wants to implement transformation and invest in a proposed solution, they have a difficult time gaining consensus and navigating more stakeholders, including the CF ”No” and COVID review committee, leading to a more complex journey, with extra review, approval steps, and more financial scrutiny.

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Forecasting Sales Forecasts Face-to-face Proposal 98

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 23, 2020

You’ll gain a deeper understanding of the internal dynamics between the buyers/stakeholders who will ultimately decide which vendor to go with. We love it when we can quickly understand the buyer’s needs and have a ready-made solution for them. We could have just responded to the RFP, and we almost did.

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Top of Funnel How To Lead Rank Vendor 82

SBI Growth

APRIL 3, 2013

Only buyer behavior does. Find clear indications that a buyer is willing to progress in the Sales Process. Is this client a referral or somebody who submitted an RFP? If your Sales Stages are solely based on rep intuition, this is your first problem. Sales stages must be built on customer driven exit criteria.

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Ideal Customer Profile Forecasting How To Sales Qualified Lead 317

Score More Sales

APRIL 29, 2013

There are three points to consider when thinking about following up with prospects, buyers, and with leads: A. Depending on the study and your industry, you’ll see that it takes 6-12 connects (or touches) with a potential buyer to bring a sales opportunity to closure. Most sellers do not follow-up enough.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 9, 2016

Often hot leads are really prospective buyers that have already been sold by another vendor. They’ve indicated they have a short buying cycle and they’re eager to talk, but what these buyers may be doing is validating a decision already made. In many cases hot opportunities are already baked.

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Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring Leads 100

Partners in Excellence

JULY 23, 2012

It would be crazy to go to a professional buyer looking for a second source and to engage the buyer in “Insight Selling.” ” For example, I only respond to RFP’s that I’ve written for the customer. It’s usually a waste of my time to respond to an RFP from a customer I’ve never met.

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Maximizer Buying Cycle Solutions Selling Consultative Selling 85

Anthony Iannarino

DECEMBER 27, 2019

” With exceptions in some verticals where the RFP is extraordinarily strategic, most are transactional, mostly consisting of questions to which the respondent may answer that they agree or disagree to terms, disagreeing disqualifying them from being considered. Your RFP Is Broken. Winning Next Time. You need help now.

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Strategy eBook Hiring Proposal 93

PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It helps avoid the “RFP trap” ( replying to an RFP only to have the contract awarded to another, more favored vendor), and allows to present both the salesperson and their company as insightful experts in their field. “Solution selling: Creating buyers in difficult selling markets” by M.

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Solutions Selling Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Lead Scoring 52

SBI

DECEMBER 2, 2019

If your sales content isn’t getting used, sales reps either can’t find it or they don’t find it relevant or engaging enough to put in front of buyers. Give your buyers the financial justification they need to move forward with a purchase or your competition will. That’s crazy. Luckily, both scenarios are fixable.

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Tools Sales Enablement Scale Analysis 99

SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Genesys recently implemented a new Sales Process which is aligned to buyer’s journey. There are five stages, each with specific “exit criteria” aligned to buyer actions. A big RFP was launched for 35,000 licenses of a recording solution that would cover half of the rep’s quota (!) stefancaptijn.

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Altify

MAY 21, 2018

Contrary to some current misconceptions, B2B buyers are not in fact conducting much of the buying cycle unaided by sellers, evaluating solutions on their own, and only reaching out to suppliers in the late stages of their process. WHEN BUYERS AND SELLERS FIRST ENGAGE. 1] As evidenced by the data, buyers need sellers early.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 17, 2015

By Dan Sixsmith and Tom Pisello When Sirius Decisions stepped forward last month to announce that several commonly held beliefs about B2B buyers and sellers were not true, it got me thinking. Secondly, buyers are indeed doing more online research and they are more knowledgeable, but they indicated they still seek out / need sales reps.

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

It’s like responding to the RFP that you haven’t written. And, sitting around waiting for a buyer to decide to reach out to you is not an effective strategy. The challenge is in doing the work to truly understand your buyers and bring that value they’re looking for. Buyers are looking for transactions.

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