The Pipeline

JUNE 18, 2020

Careful what you wish for, creating the wrong sense of urgency may just accelerate unwanted outcomes, like losses. As it becomes a priority for more in the buying organization, the more urgency you will find. The easiest way to do that is to focus on accelerating an objective and the outcomes they bring. Wrong Premise.

Discount 297

Discount Quota Face-to-face Margin 297

Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

As part of this evolution, the most advanced marketing teams are taking a page from their sales counterparts and using scalable plays to take their account-based marketing (ABM) strategy to the next level. Sales and marketing leadership need to align on: The business outcomes that your ABM strategy will achieve.

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Account Based Marketing Scale Data Strategy 246

Product Management University

MARCH 23, 2023

Those stories set you up to show results and outcomes they’ll realize when your product obliterates their problems. It creates a greater urgency to buy. If the user scenario is clear based on the context of the conversation, paraphrase the scenario and get confirmation before you explain. “So,

Engineering 97

Engineering Sales Cycle Buyer Up-Sell 97

Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Version 1 Products Need a Vision and Strategic Roadmap The easiest way to avoid the version 1 product dilemma is to describe what the product will ultimately help customers accomplish, why that outcome is valuable, and in pecking order, the biggest obstacles standing in the way of that outcome.

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How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring Consumer 59

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We know the filters we apply to given scenarios directly impact the outcome, more correctly, our view of the outcome. Insights that inform the buyer based on their objectives. Every project that includes what we in sales like to call “ a complex sale ,” has a corresponding “Complex Buy.” By Tibor Shanto. Sellers Do.

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Outsourcing Services B2B Decision Maker ROI 203

The Pipeline

APRIL 6, 2021

While most economic buyers are looking for insight based on experience with real world buyers. And yes, if you get a base, your employer is feeding and clothing you. Post-mortem showed a lack of understanding of the buying group, the totality of the project and desired business impacts. Fight The Product.

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SME Lead Rank Lead Scoring Discount 299

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 9, 2024

Distractions whether device based, app based or self inflicted consume our time. Define and execute a selling process aligned with your customer buying process. We waste so much time by doing a random walk through opportunities, responding to customers random walk through their buying process.

Ideal Customer Profile 116

Ideal Customer Profile Face-to-face CRM Opportunity 116

The Pipeline

AUGUST 5, 2021

These are buyers who may not be ready to buy now but fit the profile of your buyers. It’s different to communicating with someone who is not yet aware that they will buy in the future, from us. Not product related, but objective, outcome and impact based. Everyone knows what to say and how to a willing buyer ready to go.

Lead Rank 352

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Objections 352

No More Cold Calling

JULY 13, 2017

Can sales managers influence the buying process? Then why are so many account based selling teams given revenue targets and let loose? They can measure the right sales activities, manage to those activities, and coach account based sales reps on the behaviors that turn those activities into revenue. You can’t manage revenue.

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Account Referrals Cold Calling Ideal Customer Profile 287

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Namely that people are much more focused on the outcomes and experiences than how they got to those experiences; simply stated, most people are much more focused on the end than the means. It is accurate to say that for most business people, as long as the means are ethical and legal, what counts is the outcome.

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Travel Margin Buyer Exercises 253

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

” The level of trust necessary varies, primarily based on the risk perceived by the customer. But think about B2B buying. After all, is a buying group going to seriously shortlist a supplier they don’t trust? .” Too often, sellers don’t care, just playing the numbers game, perhaps remembering P.T.

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Face-to-face Retention B2B Groups 103

The Sales Hunter

JULY 1, 2019

Always focus on the outcomes that you can help your customers achieve not on what you sell. One great exercise that I share often is create a list of all the outcomes that you help your customers achieve. From your list, determine what type of person will most benefit from the outcomes that you offer. Once is not enough!

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Prospecting Top of Funnel Exercises Funnel 210

Product Management University

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Once you know the BIG WHY, make it the strategic value theme of your pitch such that every scenario you demonstrate eliminates obstacles en route to that overall outcome. In the second column, list that product’s primary purpose or the primary outcome it delivers. Buyers don’t buy because they understand you.

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How To Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Cycle 52

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 22, 2024

We are always trying to get others to buy into our ideas or strategies, to do things that are important to achieving our goals, to change and move forward. ” It is essential to establish a relationship based on the needs of the customer/client, not about securing the deal. Listen first, talk last. I am forever grateful!

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Film Advertising Advertising Media 73

Zoominfo

JULY 1, 2020

And since employees and executives believe lack of alignment within a team impacts the outcome of a task or project, it’s definitely something that should be prioritized. Establish Expected Outcomes. Want to learn more about what motivates target customers to buy other products? Not exactly. What if you could predict the future?

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Data Intent Data How To Intent 246

A Sales Guy

MARCH 31, 2020

Here’s the problem with that, even in today’s world, buyers don’t always understand the problem very well and even when they do, they’ve rarely evaluated it, measured it and quantified it in relation to what “could be” or in terms of a future outcome (ie the gap). People buy to solve a problem.

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Solutions Selling Buyer Motivation Commission 136

SalesFuel

MARCH 4, 2024

By offering tangible outcomes, you make it more clear that your product or service is valuable and worth your prospect’s time,” he explains. If a prospect doesn’t trust you, they won’t buy.” People do tend to buy from people they like,” he explains. Sellers must personalize what they say so it will resonate. Then, Listen.

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Prospecting Social Media Hiring Call-back 92

Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In other words, get inspired as you think of your ideal outcomes. With your ideal outcomes in mind, dig deeper into which specific features your team needs to get there. As you go through the buying journey, consider the data components that must be present so it can run smoothly. Take Spectrum as an example.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Software Software 130

Mereo

APRIL 25, 2024

Your teams can identify outlying data, isolate patterns and uncover relationships between different outcomes to drive more-confident decisions ahead with less trial and error. But in order to predict likely future outcomes of business decisions, you need to feed these tools quality datasets.

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Data Lead Rank Analysis Lead Scoring 41

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2020

You may have stumbled across our other posts on relationship selling , social selling , and organizational selling , but today I present to you: outcome selling. What is outcome selling? We should also clarify what an outcome is. In short, outcomes are long-term gains that result from a product’s benefits.

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Proposal Loyalty Demographics Face-to-face 130

The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2013

Nobody is going to buy if they don’t believe what your offering is going to help them. If every purchase is based on an expected outcome, then is there really any reason to worry so much about price? Price is secondary to outcome. Instead, think customer outcome first. Price is not the primary issue.

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Discount Selling Skills Energy Benefit 250

SalesLatitude

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

When you set your agenda and prepare for client meetings, calls or presentations, do you think about the desired outcome? Prepare for each and every buyer interaction by focusing on the outcome. Think through your best-case outcome and your minimum outcome to determine if that meeting was truly successful.

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Buyer How To Proposal Meeting 79

Crunchbase

APRIL 12, 2024

Improved customer insights: AI-driven analytics provide data-driven insights into customer needs and buying behavior, which reps can harness for more personalized and targeted sales approaches. AI-driven predictive analytics can do just that, offering insights based on historical data and making predictions that inform your sales strategy.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile 64

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2022

When used strategically, sales intelligence running with good data can drive insights into who, how, when, and why people make buying decisions. Sales intelligence combines advanced prospect data with real-time buying signals that empower business development teams to connect with the right buyer at the right time.

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Ideal Customer Profile Tools Prospecting Intent Data 130

Alice Heiman

MARCH 24, 2022

Account-based marketing is one of the hottest growth strategies right now (note: it’s not new, just hot), with companies in all industries looking to create a personalized buying experience for targeted accounts. In our discussion, we talk about account-based marketing from two standpoints. Click to tweet. About Our Guest.

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Account Based Marketing Lead Rank Account Marketing Qualified Lead 117

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It measures your progress through the sales process, but not a propensity to buy. Perhaps, your stages have been adjusted to focus on the “buying journey.” You might identify the critical selling activities you undertake to work the customer through their buying process. Source: Gartner. What's Your Deal Strategy?

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Customer Proposal Negotiation Forecasting 122

Partners in Excellence

JUNE 26, 2022

One of the fundamentals in any kind of solution or value based selling is the ROI produced by the solution. But all of these focus on the outcomes produced by the decision a customer makes. Stated differently, the customer, individually or as a buying group, constantly assesses, “Is this worth my/our time.”

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ROI Channels Customer Groups 99

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I wanted to use these abilities to develop new creative computer based real time systems for other domains than the classic data processing field. But eventually, clients need to be found who want to buy these systems because they will have a positive impact on their business. Today, I would say they ran buy-knowing processes.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Ideal Customer Profile Customer 102

The Digital Sales Institute

MARCH 12, 2024

Closing sales is about consistently moving customers towards a desired action or outcome. Focus on outcomes. So, salespeople need to focus on the outcomes, the end result rather than just features. Focus on outcomes can make a more compelling case for why the customer should buy. Build Rapport and Trust.

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Closing Objections Buyer Proposal 52

Product Management University

JUNE 8, 2023

One of the biggest reasons the account manager role has been expanded and leveled up into the more strategic customer success manager is to focus on exactly that, making sure customers get measurable outcomes from your products and services beyond just the benefit to users. This is where outcomes differ from benefits.

Lead Rank 52

Lead Rank Lead Scoring Customer Benefit 52

Alice Heiman

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is a living document, created by the seller’s team with buy-in from the customer, that all parties use to define exactly what needs to happen, by wh en to get the deal to close. . Don’t make the mistake of assuming your buyers understand exactly how to buy from you. Progressions and outcomes . 1: Statement of Value.

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How To B2B Buyer Lead Rank 154

Smooth Sale

APRIL 1, 2024

Consider Purchasing Surrounding Land In some cases, property situated on private land can often open opportunities to buy some of that space to extend your property further. Depending on your preferences, you can market the property on different platforms and will no doubt find a better outcome for those interested. Celebrate Success!

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How To Hiring Licensing Networking 93

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Sales leaders often evaluate prospects and existing customers based on readily available information — order history, and firmographic data (company location, size, industry, etc). But what if you could provide sellers with a more holistic picture of an account’s ability to buy? Scoring accounts based on meaningless metrics.

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Lead Rank Territories Lead Scoring Quota 97

Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They’re trained to sell to anyone who wants to buy and facilitate a quick buying process — but as inbound salespeople, we know who our products are made for, and we should only be selling to customers who are going to leverage value over time. Some legacy salespeople think this is a wild attitude.

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Hubspot Sales Process Buyer Churn 115

SalesLoft

APRIL 25, 2024

We’re helping buyers buy. My job is to care about your business, my job is to care about outcomes, my job is to care about how we can make you successful. It’s incumbent upon us to internalize that responsibility of helping the buyer buy, and getting the customer to the point where they can say “yes.”

Engineering 52

Engineering Industry Face-to-face Education 52

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Too often, when sales people talk about value, it seems it’s some sort of fixed outcome customers should expect if they buy the sales person’s solution. We are no longer limited to winning based on having the lowest price option, or to having more features and functions than the alternatives.

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Loyalty Data Relationals Positioning 112

Allego

APRIL 18, 2024

By targeting users based on specific behaviors and preferences, AI enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of lead generation campaigns so that marketing efforts are directed toward individuals who are most likely to convert. Sales Enablement Tools: These tools leverage AI to enhance sales processes and improve outcomes.

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Examples Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring 62