Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

What business problem is your customer solving? If it isn’t, you are wasting your and the customer time. To effectively engage our customers in business conversations, we have to understand the and be able to talk to them about their business problem first. How does the problem manifest itself?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sometimes, I feel like a broken record talking about Customer and Business Acumen. Yet these same leaders complain about the ability to connect to prospects and customers. Yet these same leaders complain about the ability to connect to prospects and customers. I ask: “How does your customer make money?”

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Zoominfo

JULY 13, 2020

At their best, personas can help us better understand users and meet their needs. In order for personas to serve your goals, they need to be data-driven. So what, exactly, does a data driven persona look like? What is a buyer persona, and who does it help? Where Does Data Fit In? But where does it come from?

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Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

That’s why it’s essential to understand the reasoning behind all that content. That’s where your content marketing strategy comes in. A content marketing strategy is your action plan to attract prospects to your brand and convert them into customers using marketing content. Create Your Buyer Personas.

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Strategy Marketing Buyer Persona Sales Qualified Lead 257

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But just in case you’ve been living under a rock, we’re talking about profiles of your ideal buyer that is a culmination of quantitative research, anecdotal observation, and existing customer data. Think about your company’s current messaging. Analyze Prospect And Customer Data. Understand Your Target Market.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Because it’s the right thing to do and in the 21st century — you are only as good as your public persona. This sets the foundation for long and healthy relationships, ensures you’re building a quality customer ecosystem, and decreases churn. That’s why I’m not the biggest fan of the one-call close. Their vertical market (i.e.

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Sales Gravy

JANUARY 23, 2024

Jeb and Ryan explore how buying is an emotional experience and sales pros that ask questions that get the story “why” behind the buyer’s “what” sell more. They dive into how curiosity and empathy are pivotal for transforming your sales approach. It's about seeing the world from the customer's perspective, feeling what they feel.

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Pivotal Loyalty Engineering Lead Rank 91

Zoominfo

JANUARY 22, 2021

As much as we like to think that all of our content is amazing, relevant, and engaging, if it’s not reaching potential customers, it’s falling on deaf ears. Before you can personalize any content or messaging, you need to identify your target market. What Is A Target Market, And Why Do You Need To Identify Yours?

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Ideal Customer Profile Marketing Buyer Persona B2B 221

Smooth Sale

APRIL 23, 2024

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: How To Attract Investors to Your Business Excitement is yours as you announce your business; you’re excited about the future, and now you’re thinking, “Maybe it’s time to bring in the investors.” Getting investors on board is like turbo-charging your business.

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Lead411

MAY 9, 2024

Stop Starting Your Presentations Talking About YOU: Customers HATE This People really dislike this. Does that ring a bell? You may quickly grab the customer’s attention and show empathy by opening with insights obtained from comprehensive exploration and comprehension of their pain concerns.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 15, 2024

It sets a tone — giving you the momentum and perspective you need to lock in on viable sales opportunities and ensure the rest of your sales process goes as smoothly as possible. That‘s why we connected with some sales leaders for their takes on habits the most successful prospectors exhibit.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 31, 2023

As a result we spend a lot of time looking at our selling process and the things we want to do to our customers. We focus on the things that drive our success, perhaps not really understanding what the customer is trying to achieve and their success. And that is why they and we fail the majority of the time.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 30, 2024

Photo by EstudioWebDoce Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Sourcing Locally Can Empower Your Food Truck Business Growth __ __ Empower Your Food Truck Business Growth Image credit Food Truck Ownership What comes to mind immediately regarding having a food truck business or any food-oriented business that focuses on your locality?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2023

” It’s related to much of what I’ve written about Inciting Customers To Change. Too often, sellers catch customers who are very late in their buying cycle. They have let their fingers do the walking through Google, found your site and expressed interest. Imagine engaging the customer much earlier.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Professors would ask about the phraseology, or why an author chose to present a story in a certain way, how they constructed and built characters, plot lines. Understanding the tempo of the book, the rise and fall of the story as it developed, and what it meant was totally foreign to me. I found I struggled though.

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Accent Technologies

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Let me explain the “why” and the “how.” Why Generative AI is So Critical We are facing an inflection point of significant change. ChatGPT] does not happen often, so when it does it pays to pay attention. Why Enterprise ChatGPT is So Important Remember that feeling when you tried ChatGPT on the web? Let’s move on.

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Enterprise Enterprise Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 97

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2024

In this post, I’m going to make the argument, that based on what I see in too many selling initiatives, is that we, as a community, have migrated from focusing on helping customers solve their problems to just beating the competition. While we claim to want to help the customer solve their problems, we aren’t.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Types of Sales Collaboration Why Collaboration Matters Tools that Foster Collaboration 6 Tips for Collaboration How can sales and marketing collaborate? But relying on this alone misses the mark. The result?

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

Alice Heiman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Add these to your reading list to get a running start in the new year. This reading list will help you modernize your sales strategies and achieve your growth objectives. Love Your Team, A Survival Guide for Sales Managers in a Hybrid World by Helen Fanucci. Helen’s book is truly a guide that will help love your team.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As a result, we are looking at any hack that enables us to get those goals…… Your customers are just waiting for you to come to them with those deep discounts. Or we don’t do our homework, understanding the customer, their business, and what they want to achieve. Technology has become our savior.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 7, 2023

In this blog post, we'll explore why some sales teams are investing in AI, why others aren't, and which companies are leading the way in AI adoption. In this blog post, we'll explore why some sales teams are investing in AI, why others aren't, and which companies are leading the way in AI adoption.

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Data Lead Rank Hubspot Survey 118

Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. How do you know if a potential customer is a good fit for your solution? How do you know whether to move prospects through your sales funnel or disqualify them? Improves your close rates.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 149

Highspot

MARCH 21, 2024

Their success comes down to crafting a message that resonates with the customer’s journey, ensuring the message is received and welcomed. Cold Outreach Emails Cold emails target prospects unfamiliar with your brand, making this first impression very important. Let’s look at how you can make your sales email stand out.

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Lead Rank How To Lead Scoring Follow-up 96

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Customers saw through this pretty quickly. While they may have taken the sales person up for the lunch of the golf game, these sales people weren’t being helpful to the customer in solving their problems. ” We’ve almost lost sight of the customer as an individual. We have to be driven by “How they feel!”

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Customer Face-to-face Groups Engineering 163

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Hank Barnes’ research on buyer remorse (and other things) is some of the most important research for sellers to understand. ” This is a key issue, if your customer isn’t committed to doing the work, if they are taking shortcuts through their buying process; are these really high quality deals.

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Customer Buyer Research Up-Sell 108

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I was meeting with a group of sellers, talking about engaging their customers. I asked the question, “Who are the people, at your customers, most important to your ability to sell something? Then there are the finance people, the controller, and CFO… ” I probed further, “What does a CIO do?”

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Customer Face-to-face System Engineering 81

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 18, 2021

But just because the customer can answer those questions doesn’t necessarily mean the deal is real from the customer’s point of view. But just because the customer can answer those questions doesn’t necessarily mean the deal is real from the customer’s point of view.

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criteria for success

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Wait, what does that mean? The simplest way to explain this is to say that our Sales PlayBook provides both the “why” and the “how” for selling in your organization. The reason why salespeople sell is critical. Put simply, the CFS Sales PlayBook contains all of your company’s tribal knowledge. A manual is static.

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ACT Lead Rank Lead Scoring Motivation 98

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 26, 2022

Sadly, too few sales people even understand this, competing on cost and price, leaving the customer to determine the business case and the ROI of implementing a solution themselves. Again, too few sales people understand this, failing to help the customer feel good/confident about the decision.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Q: SHOULD SELLING BE VIEWED AS A BUYING EXPERIENCE AND WHY. Providing a good customer experience is not only the right thing to do, but beyond that, research shows that a great experience has a significant impact on whether or not someone buys from you. Why are accounts not growing? Then, think about how that can be improved.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Account Penetration 177

Shari Levitin

AUGUST 23, 2023

Why did I feel the need to hoard five pairs of scissors, three hammers, and two extra dog collars? Your junk drawer, like your sales and sales training process, undergoes a natural sort of entropy. Your training program, like a junk drawer, typically becomes more disorganized over time. Are your communications cluttered?

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Workbooks Decision Maker Case Study Sales 118

Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

There are the obvious things product management does. For others, a market is a customer department like IT or HR. Think of them as industry analysts for your vertical/horizontal market segments (with no direct product responsibility). Here’s why this structure is so critical to a stronger leadership position.

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Marketing Segment Face-to-face Lead Rank 59

Partners in Excellence

MAY 26, 2023

It does provide a warning for many of us blindly jumping on the ChatGPT bandwagon, it does make many very obvious errors and struggles to understand them. I will create a scenario, then ask the participants to leverage ChatGPT in developing their understanding of the situation, plan discovery calls, develop unique insights.

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Julie Hanson

JANUARY 30, 2024

What is your response to that? And one of the reasons why is because there are certain qualities that need to be in place for someone to want to enter into a trusted relationship with you. And until we understand how our audience perceives us on their screen, we often do things that damage our credibility. It does matter.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 21, 2023

In selling, I suspect too much of the mindset is, “When the going gets tough, the tough build more pipeline… ” Yet appreciation is integral to our success–both within our organizations, with our partners, and our customers. To other functions in the company, to partners, to customers.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 30, 2021

We try to create value with our customers. The value we bring to our customers in helping them navigate their buying journey. After all, we are experts, while our customers struggle to buy. The value our solutions create in solving the customer problem, or enabling them to address new opportunities.

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Discount ROI Buying Cycle Sales Talent 142

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

” My good friend, Christian Mauer , challenged me, “Dave, why are you so interested in selling?” ” It was a great question and he caused me to reflect, I wrote, “ Why I Am Obsessed With Selling. And I challenge others to write, “Why are you so interested in selling?”

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Customer 113