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Why it pays to get all tangled up with your customers

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Thing is, in surveys up to 50% of “satisfied” customers say they’d happily switch suppliers. But if you sell less differentiated and complex products, the natural cost of switching tends to be low. Make your impact visible Maybe you don’t make a big deal of it when minor problems with an account come up. Congratulations.

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Is B2B Buyer Confidence Stalling Your Deals?

Alice Heiman

My next guest on Sales Talk For CEOs is Brent Adamson and he’s got some revolutionary ideas about B2B enterprise selling. Brent explains decision maker confidence is the main barrier for B2B teams to close deals. So stop selling product benefits. 10:24] (the old way of selling) was based on this idea of frame breaking.

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3 Recommendations For Post-Pandemic SaaS Sellers

Crunchbase

According to McKinsey , a survey found that more than 90 percent of B2B decision-makers expect the remote and digital model to stick around for the long run, and three out of four believe the new model is as effective or more so than before COVID-19. Fine-tune remote selling. Optimize e-commerce . Embrace omnichannel sales .

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Mike Kunkle on Sales Onboarding (Part 1)

Mindtickle

For many businesses, the ramp-up time for new sales reps is typically six months or more. Mike shares actionable steps you can take to help accelerate ramp-up times and reduce turnover. Along with these changes in buyer behavior, there are more RFPs than ever before and more decision-makers involved. according to CEB).

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Mike Kunkle on Sales Onboarding (Part 1)

Mindtickle

For many businesses, the ramp-up time for new sales reps is typically six months or more. Mike shares actionable steps you can take to help accelerate ramp-up times and reduce turnover. Along with these changes in buyer behavior, there are more RFPs than ever before and more decision-makers involved. according to CEB).

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Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999?

The ROI Guy

A Q&A with me on latest IT sales and marketing metrics, trends and best practices Is 2006 shaping up to be a good year for IT spending growth? For historical perspective, in 2005 technology marketing spending was up 6.4%, in 2004 spending was up 5.8%, while in 2003, tech marketing spending was down 1.7%.

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The Evolution of the Modern Buyer’s Journey: Why Sales Needs to Care Now

SalesLoft

They occur in long stretches of tiny differences that build up and result in a massive revision. In the years before, I would sell massive deals to one decision-maker and then connect with the others. Outbound lead generation blew up. It didn’t feel much different than what we were doing in 2009 or even in 2003.

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