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Solution Selling Is Exactly What Today’s Buyer Wants

Sales Hacker

A whopping 50% of your prospects may not be a good fit for the product/service you sell. So why did HBR declare the solution selling methodology dead in 2012? Buyers in 2012 had come a long way from the buyers of the 1980s. For instance: A while back, the PandaDoc team was in contact with Autodesk , a software provider company.

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Gartner says 2013 will be a Better Year for IT Spending Growth?

The ROI Guy

This represents a significant uptick in spending growth from the anemic 2012 rate of only 1.2%. In fact, Gartner predicted that 2012 growth was going to be 3.7% Most of the true spending increases are focused on select strategic initiatives, especially in Enterprise Software, the Cloud, Mobile Computing and Big Data.

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Marketing vs. Sales B2B Lead Sourcing

SalesLoft

But not an isolated case. When you walk into Dreamforce, the largest software event in the world, you are immediately thrust into a world of marketing automation. This week, the awesome team at the Bridge Group released a very informative and easy to read case study that looks at these type of metrics. Surprising data.

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How Can You Shine as Gartner Lowers IT Spending Forecasts for 2013?

The ROI Guy

Gartner blames the revision on exchange rate fluctuations, but I don’t buy this as the main reason for halving their IT spending growth, as similar reasons were given for lowered expectations in 2012 as well (where initial estimates of 3.7% the Prospect has a pain worth addressing and a significant cost of “Do Nothing”, Why Now?

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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

For instance, if you’re selling into a cloud security startup, it will likely focus on developing its core security products, but it will need to outsource tools like HR software, email marketing tools, and so forth. “We Instead of asking, “ Who should I be prospecting into? ” Raised Series B in 2012. Founded in 2013.

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PandaDoc competitors: Is there a better proposal solution?

PandaDoc

The contract and proposal software field is so competitive that we see new tools developed almost every year. Most of the articles we used as sources come from either specialized software review websites or user review platforms. Analytics: How many times did the prospect open your proposal? How we evaluated these tools.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about MEDDIC & MEDDPICC and never dared ask.

MEDDIC

I have Darius Lahoutifard with me and we’re going to be talking about qualifying prospects with the MEDDIC sales method and welcome to the show, Darius, it’s really great to have you here today. So he’s definitely the right person to hear how to qualify prospects with the MEDDIC method here. Steve : Yeah.