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Handling the Gatekeeper and Engaging Executives

Sales and Marketing Management

Long sales cycles. There are several advantages of making proactive attempts to start buying cycles: You can start at levels that have the authority to create budget. If there’s little chance of a buying decision, buyers won’t waste their (or your) time. High probabilities of “no decisions”. Low win rates.

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How Specific do Value Propositions Need to be?

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

It depends on who is delivering it when in the customer buying cycle. Early in the buying cycle, marketing and sales can use generic statements. This is how I would summarize the message of my Masterclass “The Dynamic Value Proposition” I gave over at the Top Sales Experts last month.

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Accelerate Slow Sales Cycles with More Sales Enablement Investments?

The ROI Guy

Two successive downturns over the past decade have resulted in buyers more skeptical of sales pitches than ever, and a condition called Frugalnomics – where buyers demand quantifiable proof of bottom-line impact for each purchase decision. So how is the sales enablement role evolving within b2b vendors? Selling is an art,” Galvin said.

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Sales Enablement and The Economic-Buyer

The ROI Guy

As a result of Frugalnomics and other market drivers: 62% of B2B vendors indicated they needed more leads in order to generate the same amount of sales, 72% indicated an increase in buying cycle time over the past 6 month, The buying cycle timeframe has increased over 10% in the past 12 months.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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Frugalnomics Forces Changes in Sales Enablement

The ROI Guy

As defined by Forrester, "Sales enablement is a strategic, ongoing process that equips all client-facing employees with the ability to consistently and systematically have a valuable conversation with the right set of customer stakeholders at each stage of the customer's problem-solving life cycle to optimize the ROI of the selling system.”

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Sales Enablement Effectiveness?

The ROI Guy

Because of Frugalnomics, an environment where buyers now demand bottom-line value from every investment, B2B sales teams are challenged more than ever to deliver expected results. Sales enablement seeks to address these challenges, providing the practices, resources, training and tools needed to help fight Frugalnomics.