Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 29, 2020

B2B leaders and sales and marketing teams across the globe are finding ways to adapt in this time of crisis. Keep prices stable and rational by being fiscally attentive and mindful of the entire chain. Your decision to detour from your existing pricing model needs high levels of accountability. Be careful and considerate.

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Chemicals How To Margin Pivotal 177

Bernadette McClelland

JULY 5, 2022

So aesthetics aside, let me dive a little deeper for you because it is a book that MUST be on your bookshelf if you are any type of self-respecting business leader or boots-on-the-ground, bag-carrying, zoom-hybrid seller wanting to market themselves in a very noisy world. We won’t make those calls! Beautiful. ?? Different. ??

Guarantee 369

Guarantee Strategy Journal Lead Rank 369

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 3, 2019

They work collaboratively with their sales team, customer service team, product team, marketing team—you name it. Second, by making small changes to the design of their organizations and the ways they manage their employees, leaders can encourage curiosity—and improve their companies. These top reps aren’t lone rangers.

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Google Face-to-face Cold Calling Survey 299

KO Advantage Group

JULY 1, 2018

In this day and age, focusing your sales proposal based on rationality just won’t cut it. Whether you’re in corporate sales or on the entrepreneurial business side, customers now look beyond the numbers and practicality—they weigh in their decisions based on how they feel and what they believe in is as well.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

If you’re thinking of asking your reps what will make the best prize in the incentive program, stop. As much as many wanted to believe in it, that model offered a thin promise ill-fitted for the grind of making sales calls to people who didn’t want to see or hear from a sales rep. Don’t do it. Here’s why and what you can do about it.

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Motivation Incentives Incentive Lead Rank 191

Lead411

MARCH 27, 2024

The Myth of Rational Decision Making: Another issue contributing to the lack of empathy in B2B sales is the belief that corporate decisions are entirely reasonable. While logic and evidence are important, emotions can also impact decision-making processes. To help you make the most of your.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 6, 2016

I recently took in a discussion where one of the panelists addressed the question of preference and decision making. The Decision Journey. Their emotions are triggered, and they double down on rationalizing rather than evaluating rationally. Which is a bit of a problem for sales people. Buying On Emotion.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Objections Call-back 120

Pipeliner

MAY 17, 2021

Whatever you do, be it leadership, sales, management, or marketing, trust is the most foundational part of any relation. The information that these assessments provide can be crucial for giving you information about how both you and your clients talk and communicate, behave, respond to conflict, get motivated, and make decisions.

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Analysis Tools System Up-Sell 81

Hubspot Sales

JUNE 4, 2020

Marketing, as a concept, is devoted entirely to propping up, promoting, and facilitating another facet of a company's business operations — sales. The object of any marketing effort is to drive demand and generate revenue. How do you know if a specific marketing campaign was effective? That much is obvious.

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Marketing Social Media Campaigns Advertising 72

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 30, 2023

AI recognizes facial impressions and drives emotion-based decisions The market size for facial recognition software was valued at USD 4.35 I think the biggest AI trend we’ll see in the next couple of years is the ability for AI to make emotion-based decisions. AI makes customer data more vulnerable.

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Lead Rank Data Top of Funnel Cost per Lead 84

Bernadette McClelland

OCTOBER 3, 2019

OK, I won’t make you read to the end here so comes an early spoiler alert! In other words, 94% of elite salespeople don’t make any excuses or blame, compared to those 20% who, perhaps, shouldn’t be in sales. . How do we make sure our children become responsible contributors to the world and still have them love us?

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And like many gamblers, their rationalizing skills develop better than their pipeline. This is about 10% of the market at any given time, motivated by their own drivers, they’re actively looking. Another 20% are not in the market now, but know they will need to explore soon, 12 – 18 months. Time Costs. A blended approach?

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Prospecting Influencer Buyer Education 212

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Any rational person would see your well-organized, fact-filled presentation and say yes to becoming a client. Yet, these situations are bound to fail because decisions – especially, important decisions – are not made logically, they are made emotionally. Damasio’s research shed tremendous light on decision making.

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Ideal Customer Profile System Prospecting Research 196

Mereo

JUNE 24, 2021

The major offenders have not been in sales and marketing either, where metrics, pipeline and demand generation reviews abound and are, anecdotally, probably more tuned-in to the data and related analytics. What makes this an even larger misstep is that research and development is often one of the largest investment areas.

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Government ROI Revenue Remedy 93

Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In this episode, Frank and Tim talk about how emotions affect a person’s buying behavior and how the salesperson uses the buyer’s emotional decision in building value and logic as to why that’s the right decision to make. When we go shopping, we want to believe our decisions are logical, but they rarely are.

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Buyer Persona B2C Face-to-face Influencer 52

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2019

” The reality, unless the customers or our people have been diagnosed with some sort of mental illness, is they always behave rationally–though it’s different than how we would like to see them behave. Until we make a connection at this level, we will be limited in our ability to connect.

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The Pipeline

JULY 2, 2019

Sellers already buy into this when they agree that “people buy on emotion, ( primal brain ), then rationalize it, ( logical brain ).” The potential of not having – drives decisions and actions. Unfortunately, the segment of the market this resonates with and would lead to action is small. The Real World. little league game.

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Face-to-face ACT Margin Buyer 227

Janek Performance Group

JUNE 30, 2023

Does last year’s persona prepared by marketing still apply to this prospect? Buyer personas are unquestionably helpful for marketing to segment the market and target the best potential customers efficiently. How else do you explain all the no-decisions in the CRM? In stable markets, assumptions can be made.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 62

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Disruptive emotions can manifest in destructive behaviors that fog focus, cloud situational awareness, cause irrational decision making, lead to misjudgments and erode confidence. It causes you to hesitate and make excuses rather than confidently and assertively ask for what you want. It clouds objectivity and breeds insecurity.

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Objections Negotiation Face-to-face Forecasting 252

The Pipeline

MARCH 18, 2013

I’ll be the first to admit change is hard, especially for business buyers who have their handful, trying to make headway in a competitive market. Change is time consuming, a drain on resources, creates upheaval, usually expensive, and fraught with risk, for the organization and the individual at the centre of the decision.

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Sage Penetration Buyer Referrals 274

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We know they are overwhelmed, we have to help them make sense of what they face, help them sort through the issues, focusing on that which is most relevant to what they are trying to achieve. We know unless they have great confidence in the decision they have made, they may not succeed.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Maximizer Exact 73

SBI

MARCH 26, 2013

The subjects of both books are decidedly applicable to the field of Sales and Marketing. Switch explores the reasons why it’s so hard to make lasting changes in our companies and private lives. Interestingly enough, the topic of decision-making is one the Heath brothers chose to tackle in their new book.

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Marketing Report Vendor Webinar Metrics 123

The Pipeline

AUGUST 3, 2017

The other thing you want to do is review all three outcomes, win – lose – draw (no decision). You also want to make sure to review the no decisions, these will give you insights as to why the deal stalled, so you can approach it differently next time. Product, feature, ROI, all noise.

Objections 206

Objections Face-to-face Segment ROI 206

Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

We see powerful lobbyists influencing the decision-making process, and hear that a politician can be bought for $10,000. When they become monopolies, they can make their own rules, which are not based on fair competition. People rationalize, “If they lie, we can, too.” Similarly, are bigger companies buying customers?

Face-to-face 107

Face-to-face Film Consumer Journal 107

Gong.io

AUGUST 23, 2022

After all, if you don’t spend time prioritizing business initiatives, you won’t be making progress in the right directions, right? People are notoriously optimistic when it comes to estimating effort and, as it turns out, quite bad in making predictions—especially, as an old Danish proverb goes, about the future. Well, maybe not.

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Software Software Objections Enterprise 62

The ROI Guy

MAY 27, 2015

There is an ongoing debate in sales and marketing: Are the most effective marketing campaigns and sales reps relying more on art and creativity, or leveraging a more systematic and scientific approach? With the current focus on big data, a scientific approach to sales and marketing certainly has its pundits.

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Marketing Lead Rank Campaigns ROI 80

Janek Performance Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is the type of knowledge clients can’t find on Google, which makes it valuable. They continue to suck information and free consulting yet never have the intention of making a purchase decision. When a prospect remains isolated, it’s a sign there won’t be a decision soon.

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Sales Qualified Lead Sports Intent Enterprise 62

Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

That fear - and most salespeople aren''t even consciously aware of it - prevents them from: Making prospecting calls. Making enough prospecting calls. Getting through to decision makers. When salespeople have a need to rationalize what they did and didn''t do.chances are they have just experienced a bout of fear of failing.

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Emissary

JUNE 26, 2023

Make a last Sales push for new logos. No decisions” will doom your H2 forecast. For ‘maybe’ opportunities, drive a mutual decision-point in the sales process where you and the client need to make a commitment. Start rationalizing the tech stack. Unstick stalled deals. De-risk the “must-wins.” What is underutilized?

Ideal Customer Profile 52

Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Account Based Marketing Lead Rank 52

The Pipeline

MAY 22, 2013

Companies continue to struggle with this reality, in many instances the 80/20 looks more like this: 20% – Top of the pack , consistently successful, adaptive and responsive to market movements, often spearheading the change in sales that are required to keep and win more business. The B’s need to be put on a path to achieve A status.

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Crunchbase

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Don’t think you control your market or customers. Make sure your team is ready to execute with you. I have found that change is one of the most powerful drivers of product and market awareness along with a focus on what’s most important. Embrace change and make it your best friend. . This is your starting point for 2021.

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Data Forecasting Ideal Customer Profile ACT 98

Sales 2.0

APRIL 27, 2014

I usually lay it out there and make the situation pretty clear. As a marketing director, there are always projects I’d like to do but my company is not going to be able to fund or provide me the resources to get them all done. I’m not making that up. In sales there’s always something more you can do to make another sale.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Proposal Gatekeeper 268

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Every day, we are pummeled with experts talking about how to make sales people more efficient. Sales and marketing stacks are growing, I’ve seen one Fortune 50 company “bragging” about their sales stack of 19 tools. All these things are supposed to make us better, more productive, more effective, more efficient.

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Marketing Strategy Fashion Data 54

The Pipeline

AUGUST 14, 2018

I was involved with a renewal with a client for their marketing automation product, a leader you’d all know, the client was not happy and had made that abundantly clear to their “Customer Success Manager.” I understand wanting to be diligent, but we were very specific about what was going into the decision. Slaves To The Clock.

Face-to-face 188

Face-to-face Lead Rank Lead Scoring Call-back 188

Nutshell

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The ability to see things from your customer’s perspective is a huge advantage in B2B sales and marketing. That’s why I see empathy as a superpower in marketing and sales. NUTSHELL: You’ve worked in B2B marketing for almost 25 years now.

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Demand Generation Agencies Marketing Top of Funnel Demand Generation Targets 90

Igniting Sales Transformation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It could be a marketing interaction, and more often, that first touch starts with someone on the front lines of your sales organization. The idea is to deliver the right articles, white papers, case studies, videos or webinars at the right time in the buyers’ decision-making process. But that’s not the case at all. A lot of it.

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Webinar Metrics Loyalty Buyer Case Study 126

DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 29, 2016

Chung, assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, suggests that money-based rewards are more complex than they may initially appear. Suzanne Fogel, Chair of the Marketing Department at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business, questions how powerful money-driven incentives are for this younger generation.

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Motivation Incentives Incentive Commission 120