Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

SWOT Analysis: Conduct a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) to assess internal and external factors influencing your GTM strategy. This includes sales collateral, presentations, case studies, and other materials designed to resonate with target audiences. Analyze competitor strategies and market gaps.

Strategy 52

Strategy Marketing Distribution Sales Enablement 52

Highspot

JANUARY 22, 2024

SWOT Analysis: Conduct a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) to assess internal and external factors influencing your GTM strategy. This includes sales collateral, presentations, case studies, and other materials designed to resonate with target audiences. Analyze competitor strategies and market gaps.

Strategy 52

Strategy Marketing Distribution Sales Enablement 52

Highspot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With these elements, your SDRs can move through the sales cycle and navigate challenges along the way. Your ICP directly influences your sales development strategy, guiding your efforts toward the most viable prospects and ensuring more targeted sales engagements.

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 52

Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2023

The importance of sales content management What are the benefits of sales content management? Effective sales content management involves developing a content strategy that aligns with the organization’s overall sales goals and targets specific stages of the sales cycle.

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Top of Funnel Scale Case Study Distribution 52

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 25, 2011

Internet Fuels IT Buying Cycles According to a recent survey of 500 technology decision makers and influencers, Internet access to content is changing the way IT solutions are purchased, with buyers using on-line research to drive substantial portion of the decision making cycle on their own.

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Influencer Collateral Decision Maker Ideal Customer Profile 40

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It influences their perceptions and feelings about your business. When there’s alignment between sales and marketing, they create consistent messaging that provides value at each touchpoint. While numerous factors influence revenue, so does the alignment of sales and marketing teams.

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Lead Rank Top of Funnel Marketing Qualified Lead Ideal Customer Profile 106

Highspot

JANUARY 28, 2024

This underscores the influence of sales collateral, ranging from traditional brochures to dynamic digital content like blogs and videos, in steering potential customers through their buying journey. This guide shares the importance of sales collateral, who is responsible, and how to use it to seal the deal.

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Collateral Top of Funnel How To Distribution 96

Salesmate

AUGUST 18, 2021

The adage, “more calls equal to more leads” has influenced many salespeople and marketers. Or do they prefer a stronger sales pitch – in terms of demos, and collaterals that can present your offerings? c) Does the sales cycle involve multiple people and long decision-making?

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Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Leads Marketing Qualified Lead 135

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

KnowledgeTree surfaces the best presentations, datasheets, and other collateral for every sales situation. LinkedIn: Sales Solutions. LinkedIn Sales Navigator helps sales professionals leverage 300M+ professional profiles and 2M+ Company Pages. Video Not Yet. KnowledgeTree. KnowledgeTree. KnowledgeTree ToolSkool.

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Vendor Twitter InsideView InsideSales 139

DocSend

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

From whitepapers and case studies to pitch decks and product overviews, the volume of sales content has exploded in recent years. And marketers continue to create ever more content to influence the buyer’s journey. . We started by analyzing interactions with our new and old decks at the beginning of the sales cycle.

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Top of Funnel Funnel ROI Influencer 56

HeavyHitter Sales

MARCH 22, 2012

I’ve had the privilege of conducting “Win/Loss/No Decision Sales Cycle Analysis Studies” for leading companies including IBM, EMC, ATT, Acxiom, and PayPal. As the customer, you are going to meet with multiple vendors, watch their presentations, and read their marketing collateral. However, you will select only one product.

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Analysis Acxiom Face-to-face Revelation 146

Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2018

Here, we look at sales content management, what it is, how to use it in your organization, and the benefits experienced by other companies who already have. What is sales content management? A broad variety of content is needed for salespeople throughout the sales cycle. Reducing new sales team members’ ramp times.

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SalesForce Sales Cycle Study Sales Enablement 52

LeveragePoint

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Understanding Sales Challenges , Richardson’s recently compiled survey, identified the top 3 concerns among seller executives: (1) Competing against a low cost provider, (2) Combatting the status quo and (3) Knowledge about how to team sell effectively. This is a lonely time for a sales rep. Objectives Early in the Sales Cycle.

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Case Study Sales Cycle Study Opportunity 20

Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

To advance prospects through the sales cycle, reps need to add value to the sales conversation through relevant content and insights. They need messaging and sales collateral that addresses apprehensions, that demonstrates the ability to solve a problem, and that shows how ROI can be attained.

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Strategy Analytics Sales Enablement Scale 88

LeveragePoint

MARCH 23, 2018

As highlighted in our last blog, the biggest sales challenge early in the sales cycle is usually combatting the status quo and getting a buyer to evaluate your solution with the active involvement of your sales team. Sales Breakthrough – the Evaluation Stage. Middle of the Sales Cycle Objectives.

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Sales Cycle Case Study Customer Comparison 20

SBI

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

mobile tools can ignite productivity, shorten sales cycles, and provide. It costs a small fortune to print sales materials and it’s a hassle to lug them around town. Use a content delivery tool that makes it possible to send electronic product collateral within seconds of entering the prospect’s information, automatically.

Collateral 115

Collateral Revelation Trends CRM 115

SalesHandy

JUNE 5, 2020

While re-engaging, your goal should be to guide your leads to the next stages of the sales cycle as quickly and smoothly. Once your lead nurturing sequence is live, it is crucial to measure its impact on sales. Open rates, responses, closes, and sales cycle times measure the impact of your lead nurturing efforts.

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Lead Nurturing Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 80

HeavyHitter Sales

JULY 25, 2014

The first and foremost principle is that the indirect strategy is a psychological operation (“psy-op” in military jargon) based upon understanding, predicting, and influencing human nature. In sales, winning requires earning the trust, respect, and friendship of another human being. Employ Psychology. Plan Your Strategy.

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Strategy Collateral Sales Cycle Objections 94

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2019

If you haven’t defined the various stages of your sales process, the most important buying triggers, which customer stakeholders are typically involved, how long the average deal takes to close, and so on, you may want to postpone a channel sales initiative. Average sales cycle length. Average partner satisfaction score.

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Channels Lead Rank Hiring Lead Scoring 100

Highspot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

As you create your sales enablement strategy blueprints, consult with your colleagues in sales leadership. Get their take on where pain points and sales processes stand and how they can be improved (read: enabled). Sales rep quota attainment. Revenue influence. Make this a regular thing. Training turnover rates.

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Sales Enablement Top of Funnel Scale Face-to-face 75

Chorus.ai

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This is the realistic percentage of your SOM that you can sell given the competition, countries/languages you service, trends, expected demand, your sales forecast, and other market influences. What projects related to process or collateral need to be completed to help the team hit its number, and who is accountable for what?

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Churn Film Sales Qualified Lead Cold Calling 62

SalesLoft

OCTOBER 14, 2016

It’s not to be confused with “data-influenced” or “data-informed,” where you merely have data for data’s sake, or where you’re aware of the numbers but aren’t always using them to advise your processes and strategies. 5) Leverage data to make decisions.

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Sales Process Data Top of Funnel Scale 52

The Pipeline

APRIL 15, 2011

With visibility into just which content your qualified leads are accessing, marketers can provide salespeople with additional content and collateral that matches buyer activity to help keep the momentum toward purchase moving along. Sales Bloggers Union. Sales Compensation. Sales Cycle. Sales eXchange.

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Manticore Pipeline Marketing Lead Rank 217

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Projecting a sales cycle ahead of time gives sellers a much better chance of making their numbers. Let’s say your average sales cycle is three months. Let’s say your average sales cycle is three months. These prospects believe sellers will try to manipulate them by influencing their requirements.

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Top of Funnel Hiring Sage Sales Qualified Lead 40

Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

It helps you generate social capital and expand your influence. Done right, events are a powerful way to engage your target audience, accelerate the sales cycle and built brand equity. We visited Dreamforce to find the best event marketing – the best exhibit hall booths, after-hours parties, collateral, swag and more.

Webinar Metrics 113

Webinar Metrics Trade Show Marketing Strategy 113

Chorus.ai

JULY 28, 2020

If not, later in the process you will undoubtedly face objections from stakeholders who influence buying decisions at your prospect’s company. Early on in the sales cycle, ask your prospect for feedback by saying, “Does our solution meet all of the requirements you have? Do you have any concerns?” Sample Response 1.

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Objections Case Study ROI Lead Rank 104

OnePageCRM

JUNE 15, 2017

Once you reframe it like this, everything boils down to the basics of influence and persuasion. You need to prove that you have something valuable to share so that they trust you and will be proud to refer you to the influencer you’re trying to reach. Incorporate this language into your content and marketing collateral.

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Gatekeeper Social Media How To Decision Maker 46

Crunchbase

APRIL 8, 2022

Sales enablement works because it helps content connect more directly with how potential customers think and feel. Sales enablement does this by fueling content with insights informed by the sales cycle. 5 sales enablement tips to empower your team. Give sales and marketing teams opportunities to align.

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Sales Enablement Closing Case Study Collateral 105

Chorus.ai

DECEMBER 1, 2020

If not, later in the process you will undoubtedly face objections from stakeholders who influence buying decisions at your prospect’s company. Early on in the sales cycle, ask your prospect for feedback by saying, “Does our solution meet all of the requirements you have? Do you have any concerns?” Sample Response 1.

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Objections Case Study ROI Lead Rank 73

The ROI Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

The Buying Lifecycle according to SiriusDecisions, highlighting how CFOs and other executives are involved early in the decision making, helping to drive change, and then again later in the sales cycle when the purchase must be financially justified.

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Buying Cycle ROI Journal Case Study 45

DocSend

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

DocSend’s recent research indicates that the rise in remote work has driven an increase in virtual and hybrid sales cycles. Over 40% of salespeople shared that their cycles have gone hybrid over the past year and a half, and this transition shows no signs of slowing down.

Top of Funnel 52

Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Collateral 52

Crunchbase

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Thankfully, technology exists today to ease the learning curve for these reps and help them hit the ground running to move leads through the sales cycle. Sales collateral has always played an important role in converting leads into new business. Modern presentation software.

Collateral 52

Collateral Top of Funnel Proposal Software 52

Zoominfo

APRIL 23, 2020

But long, complicated sales cycles need more than just names and numbers. Marketing and sales intelligence data is dynamic, which is to say frequently and continuously refreshed. It’s a vicious cycle that never moves beyond cleaning up bad data. So why is tech stack data important to sales and marketing leaders?

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Intent Data Trade Show 189

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 22, 2019

and product teams and marketing people are hearing that voice, if at all, through the filter of sales. Too often, when B2B marketing and product teams create content, develop a new feature or share a piece of collateral, buyers see these things with furrowed brows, wondering, “What are they talking about? This doesn’t matter to me.

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B2C B2B Marketing Buyer Persona 180

Mindtickle

MAY 25, 2021

Organizations with a dedicated sales enablement program increase average quota attainment between 45% to over 52%. Sales readiness and enablement are now an essential part of the sales ecosystem, influencing selling skills before, during and after buyer interactions to accelerate win rates and optimize the sales cycle as a whole.

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Software Software Conversion Hiring 80

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Sales teams are being engaged later and later in the sales cycle. this year, an increase from 3.1%

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Buying Cycle Marketing Comparison Vendor 45

Janek Performance Group

AUGUST 26, 2022

Reduce the length of the monthly sales cycle X percent: The shorter the cycle, the quicker the close—and the more time reps can devote to new business. However, sales cycles can often be reduced with a greater emphasis on the frontend. Better qualified leads can dramatically cut the length of your sales cycle. .

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Webinar Metrics Strategy Outsourcing Services Sports 62