Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Begin Buying Cycles with Pain vs. Goals. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. It’s always been challenging for me to imagine 25 year old sellers getting 50+ year old Sales Executives to admit they’re missing revenue targets (vs.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 25, 2024

We know buying cycles are getting longer. It’s easy to find excuses, to blame everyone and everything else about the lengthening sales/buying cycles. How are sellers contributing to the longer buying and sales cycles? Or we have other excuses. But perhaps we should look inwardly.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

AM: Your research indicates over 40% of millennials are either making the buying decisions or influencing them today. What does this mean for marketing and sales tactics? AD: That’s right, marketers and sales reps need to get ahead of the game and start to adapt to this new environment.

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SBI

JULY 17, 2012

It is not uncommon today for decision makers to avoid talking with a salesperson early in the sales cycle thinking, somewhat erroneously, that they are able to diagnose their own needs and to then seek and find the best solutions through their own investigation. And that, all too often, is at the end of the buying cycle.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2015

His post reminded me of something too many sales people overlook in their sales strategies. Buyers Get Smarter Through The Buying Cycle. But it creates a real challenge for us as sales people. Our sales processes are built around the flow from one set of static events to the next. Related Posts: Wake Up!

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 7, 2013

Sales Training Article: The Foundation of Buying Cycles. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net In my mind the most important core concept of CustomerCentric Selling® is: No goal, no prospect.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Electronic Starts to Buying Cycles By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation from last week's article , as part of the IIWII ("It Is What It Is") series. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. We are in a measured buying environment.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Like retail, B2B sales has some seasonal trends that tend to fool the also-rans while bringing opportunity to those willing to make the effort. Most sellers have no clue how long their sales cycle is. As I have shared before when you ask sellers how long their cycle is, most respond “depends.” Do The Math.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 16, 2014

Lack of sales enablement will cause you to miss the number. Sales enablement alignment to the customers buying cycle is required. Misalignment can result in missing the buying cycle completely. CMO Resources CMO New Product Sales Enablement Sales Readiness'

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2023

Mid-Market & Growth Expansion Sales at Drift. You’ll learn: How to take a multithreaded approach to consensus-driven sale cycles. How to leverage low-friction touch points to accelerate sales cycles. Guests : Brooke Freedman – Account Executive Manager at Drift.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 27, 2019

This transformation is permeating all areas of the enterprise – from marketing to sales to product development and even finance and human resources. However, sales is also an area ripe for innovation when it comes to AI-powered solutions. While sales drives the bottom line, marketing helps sales find and qualify leads.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2015

It’s that time of year again, there are lots of posts around the popular research that indicates, “Customers aren’t engaging sales until they are, 57, 70, 90 (depending on the research you read) through their buying cycle.” Playing the numbers and pricing game to win their fair share of RFP’s.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s SKO season, yesterday I was leading a discussion with a great sales team. I go back to the data on how buying cycles are getting longer, customers are uncertain, they wander, they shift priorities, they struggle with getting alignment, they start, stop, and too often, fail.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Author: Mark Kovac, David Deming and Sushant Khandelwal Virtual selling in business-to-business markets, often associated with inside sales, has carried a bit of a stigma within field-dominated sales organizations. Myth 1: Field sales reps sell primarily in person.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 7, 2019

Buying cycles have expanded more than measurably. Other sources confirm this trend in lengthening buy cycles. Many working on old timeframes and presumed related work-flows, get frustrated as the cycles stretch. On the field, that is with a prospect in Discovery, sellers need to be counter-intuitive.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. Your marketing and sales teams need both. How to spot buying signals.

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The Pipeline

MAY 28, 2019

Time is a truly critical element of sales success, yet too many take a very passive approach to their time. To succeed in prospecting, in fact, in any element of sales, you need to own your time. Time Is The Currency Of Sales. Too many sales organizations measure lagging indicators rather than actionable leading indicators.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 6, 2017

Too often potential sales leads are left to die a slow death on the showroom floor. Given the tremendous potential of tradeshows to produce high quality sales leads, let’s highlight what a day in the life of a tradeshow sales lead should look like to deliver ROI. . Clearly tradeshows are a win-win scenario.

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The Pipeline

JULY 6, 2021

Sales like life is cyclical in many ways, some cycles help others may present headwinds. But one thing cycles have in common is their repeating nature and their predictability. One way to help buyers and you, is to leverage cycles, while changing the buyer’s and your own habits throughout the buying cycle.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

A trend is emerging among Sales SVPs: they Make the Number every other year. And on and on the cycle goes. The right Marketing Methodology can enable you to break this cycle. In sales, knowing when a prospect is in the market is the Holy Grail. These markets have natural buying cycles.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Teaser: There are three value conversation “moments of truth” in every buying cycle that you must excel at. But they are also integrated in a way that a salesperson must master in order to move seamlessly between them as the customer buying cycle dictates. read more

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Allego

JULY 20, 2021

Michael had completed this transaction to help his customer buy software they needed to adapt to the virtual selling world, and he had done it all without leaving his house. After this deal closed, Michael decided to go all in on virtual selling, and he had the second best year in his sales career in 2020, despite a global pandemic.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

You might not think that automatic sales dialers have that much to offer you. What Is A Sales Dialer? A sales dialer is pretty much what it sounds like: technology that automatically dials numbers for salespeople. You’re a sales representative. Here’s where the sales dialer comes in. You have hundreds.

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Membrain

OCTOBER 17, 2021

We struggle to get in front of customers, to find opportunities, to nurture them through the buying cycle, and, ultimately, to win. Yet, the majority of those complex buying opportunities end in “No Decision Made.”.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 14, 2017

Long sales cycles. There are several advantages of making proactive attempts to start buying cycles: You can start at levels that have the authority to create budget. If there’s little chance of a buying decision, buyers won’t waste their (or your) time. High probabilities of “no decisions”. Low win rates.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 16, 2018

Far too many sales reps do. Perhaps if what you’re doing isn’t working, new sales techniques are in order? McKinsey summarizes this challenge in “ The secret to making it in the digital sales world: The human touch.” The researchers write: There’s no doubt that digital is rocket fuel for sales organizations.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Teaser: If you believe the hype around studies that say customers feel they are through 60 percent (or more) of the buying cycle before engaging a salesperson, you could be giving your salespeople the wrong content for the wrong conversation. read more'

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Here are 33 tips and techniques that I believe will help every salesperson to improve their overall sales figures and create more motivation and drive. If you get a sale, learn what went right so you can repeat it and improve it. If you lose a sale, learn what you can do differently, so you can improve it.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Teaser: By the time a customer engages a salesperson, they’re 60 percent of the way through their buying cycle and have done most of their research online. By the time a customer engages a salesperson, they’re 60 percent of the way through their buying cycle and have done most of their research online.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 18, 2018

When you are in the middle of it, the heat of the experience, be that a sport game or sales or selling, it is easy to assume that the others involved are prepared and as ready as you are, or they should be; especially in a sales, where the buyers seem to be willing participants. I mean look at all the information available.

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Close.io

AUGUST 6, 2018

Enterprises typically have very long buying cycles. Here are two things you can do to accelerate the sales process. Understand the buying cycle of the enterprise you're selling into. Have a clear vision of their buying journey. Once you have mapped out their buying cycle, you move on to the next step.

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Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 17, 2023

This is called having a Supportive Buy Cycle and while 64% of the top salespeople in the world have it, only 10% of the bottom half of all salespeople and 1% of the bottom 10% have it as a strength. There are 21 Sales Core Competencies are the tissue and they are akin to sales best practices. Closed in ten minutes.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 22, 2020

Is a B2B sale more complicated than an Amazon transaction? Sales cycles are a grind. But, sales fundamentals? According to TOPO’s latest Sales Process Design research, “ The sales process must match the buying journey. The first step is to understand how customers typically buy a similar solution.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Experience: What processes does the customer go through when they are in the buying cycle? MTD Sales Training | Sales Blog | Image courtesy of Big Stock Photo. The post How To Map Out Your Buyer’s Journey Pre & Post-Sale appeared first on MTD Sales Training. Happy Selling! Sean McPheat.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 25, 2013

The software company’s VP of Sales boasted about his win rate. If the sales team was getting better, why did they keep missing quota? If the sales team was getting better, why did they keep missing quota? The Sales team hadn’t vastly improved. Instead, their buyer was engaging with sales later in their buying cycle.

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