Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 16, 2013

Sales Training Article: "It Is What It Is" By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company The naïve enthusiasm of youth fades as we age. By leveraging the Internet and social networking buyers are getting further into buying cycles without the influence of salespeople.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Sales Training Article: Are You Cloning Bad Selling Habits? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Most vendors provide product training that points sellers toward educating buyers. Don''t lead with product." Brilliant, but Jeff never explained how. All others struggle.

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Pointclear

JANUARY 31, 2012

Tony Zambito is Founder and Principal of the buyer research and strategy firm Buyerology ?. He is also the originator of the buyer persona research and creation methodology as well as Business Buyergraphics ™ that are widely used to make informed decisions from buyer insights. He holds a B.S. in Business and an M.B.A.

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The Digital Sales Institute

JANUARY 23, 2024

Your Ideal Prospect To build a sales process, companies need to create a buyer persona that highlights demographic, behavior and interest-related information about your ideal prospect. If you don’t already have a buyer persona or ideal customer profile, spend time researching your target market. Align with your prospect’s buying cycle.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 23, 2017

Beyond just content, marketing invests billions in other areas, all focused on helping create more customers and supporting sales through the entire buying cycle. Training has skyrocketed. Training in all forms, workshops, seminars, eLearning, webcasts, podcasts. It’s available where ever we turn.

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Showpad

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

As such, Sales teams are having to be trained on increasingly diverse portfolio sales including value-added services. According to our own research , there are now more than five people involved in almost a quarter of all B2B purchases, with some enterprise deals involving twenty people or more. Train Effectively.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Customers start buying cycles, inviting us to work with them, or we incite them to change, out of the recognition that what got them to where they are won’t get them to where they need or aspire to be. What’s it take for us to change? The post What Got Us Here Won’t Get Us To Where We Need To Be!

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 21, 2014

Sales Training Article: How to Gain Access to Key Players. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. The risks of doing so include failing to relate to the buyer and the potential of being delegated to lower levels. Need some help to increase sales?

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Cincom Smart Selling

JUNE 15, 2017

Many years ago, I was sitting in on a sales training session for new hires who were learning the selling method my then employer used. The training session was in a role-playing format with the sales rep interacting with a “customer” during a sales call roughly half way through the selling cycle. Stand and deliver!

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 8, 2020

CMO research from 2019 found that 54% of B2B marketer respondents said they do not use or have not tried AI. Humans can develop, train and manage AI applications, enabling those systems to function as part of true human and machine partnerships. While B2B service companies are the top user of AI for content personalization (62.2%)?

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Sales Training Connection

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Senior executives are not equally engaged throughout the buying cycle. They are involved early and late and tend to delegate the middle of the buying process to others. Senior executives attention is merited early in the buying cycle since that is when the operational and financial parameters of the project are defined.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 15, 2015

We’re trained to look at the business justification for our solutions. The goals may be related to expected performance. Each of these is related to the desire to improve one’s [work] life. First, these equations changes over time–through the buying cycle. No related posts.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Sales Gravy is the most visited sales specific website and the destination sales training resource for sales professionals across the globe. CustomerCentric Selling Sales Training Blog. CCS® is annually named to Training Industry’s Top Sales Training Companies list. Sandler Training. Sales Gravy. Heinz Marketing.

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 28, 2015

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. The impetus has been changes in buying behavior. Ironically, the “buyers” are actually more accurately labeled “ researchers ” as relates to complex offerings. Image courtesy of Arztsamui at FreeDigitalPhotos.net.

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Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2018

Research shows that an estimated $35 million is lost in Fortune 500 companies due to unshared knowledge. These two improvements are closely related. This makes it easier for them to create content that encourages prospects to move through their buying cycle. Reducing sales’ search time for content and collateral.

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 27, 2016

For the last 10 years or so I’ve amended my thought to: The company that provides a superior buying experience will win most of the time. Buying cycles will usually be shorter. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to get started and improve sales performance. from executives.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Research shows that the average seller uses around six different tools. According to Forrester , sales engagement is “solutions that help sales, marketing, and post-sales personnel understand and manage their omnichannel touchpoints across the buying cycle.”. Integration with CRM , research software, and other tools.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 30, 2020

Sales enablement refers to the training, tools, content management, and resources provided to the sales team to help them successfully close more deals. When done well, the benefits of sales enablement speak for themselves: Companies with a focus on sales enablement see overall sales training effectiveness 29% higher than those without.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 30, 2020

Sales enablement refers to the training, tools, content management, and resources provided to the sales team to help them successfully close more deals. When done well, the benefits of sales enablement speak for themselves: Companies with a focus on sales enablement see overall sales training effectiveness 29% higher than those without.

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Mindtickle

APRIL 30, 2020

Sales enablement refers to the training, tools, content management, and resources provided to the sales team to help them successfully close more deals. When done well, the benefits of sales enablement speak for themselves: Companies with a focus on sales enablement see overall sales training effectiveness 29% higher than those without.

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Customer Centric Selling

MAY 13, 2015

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. My view is that these visitors (more accurately labeled researchers if they can’t fund new B2B initiatives) are dictating how they want to be treated. People want the ability to buy rather than being sold. Save yours now!

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

I wanted to share some of my unique thoughts about this concept as it relates to the natural world and how I see the ramifications of decay rates and how they're impacting enterprise deals and influencing sales cycle stagnation, or acceleration. But who is teaching, don't even compete in an existing buying cycle that has a decay rate.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The buying cycle in virtual selling is complex as most of the sales conversations happen between the buyers and sellers are located at different physical locations! You can monitor their daily performance to identify which sales reps excel in the virtual workspace and which one needs training.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2018

Non-Supportive Buy Cycle vs. Ability to Differentiate. Just this past month, we released a full, free sales training course that features the framework prominently, as well as how to identify, connect, and advise contacts into customers. Non-supportive buy cycle. Strengths and Weaknesses of a Sales Executive.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 16, 2015

At the end of that research and thought-leadership development is a printing press that forever churns out collateral and content. Content unique to a persona aligned with their industry, where they are in their buying cycle, and tuned to the specific problems and issues they might have. No related posts.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

IDC research shows that because of frugal buyer sentiment, 62% of B2B vendors need more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, and 72% indicate an increase in sales cycle time over the past 6 months. April 2009.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As Dave Mattson, CEO and President of Sandler Training explained, “Businesses need our sales team to be on the same page. What is the situation as it currently relates to the product? ? Modern SPIN sellers will be cautioned to ask as few questions as possible and amend this discovery process with research done prior to engaging.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 3, 2012

This is not imagined, but proven by research, and called the Status Quo Bias - a cognitive pre-disposition for maintaining the status-quo. Most sales professionals will readily admit that buyers have taken control of the buying cycle, and are demanding a different more value-based sales approach. Raise awareness 2.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 12, 2013

This is not imagined, but proven by research, and called Status Quo Bias - a cognitive pre-disposition for maintaining the status-quo. Most sales professionals will readily admit that buyers have taken control of the buying cycle, and are demanding a different more value-based sales approach.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 8, 2023

Millennial buyers spend more time researching online, abhor phone calls and are socially conscious. Which means, sales enablement leaders , you have to alter your approach to support your sellers in providing a positive buying experience and close deals with this new cohort of buyers. What do you need to know about millennials?

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John Barrows

JUNE 20, 2018

No matter how much enthusiasm you have, there is no magic line or technique that can help you close a deal if you haven’t laid the proper foundation early on in the buying cycle. Part of that is research, and that’s going to be on the shoulders of the rep or the SDR. Or are you going in and guessing?

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Allego

JULY 24, 2023

Buyers are savvier than ever and have shifted to digital channels to research solutions. In fact, TrustRadius’ 2022 report, B2B Buying Disconnect: The Age of the Self-Serve Buyer , revealed that virtually 100% of buyers want to self-serve all or part of the buying journey.

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