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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. Think of the times a prospect has needs which extend beyond the scope of your off-the-shelf products.

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6 Reasons Sales Professionals Love Keenan the Sales Guy

Zoominfo

Administrative tasks and prospect research eat up a ton of time that reps could spend selling. There are a million tools out there (Zoominfo) to help with that. He was also named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Sales and Marketing People by Top Sales World Magazine every year running, since 2012. KeenanTakeover ”. and Forbes.

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The Pipeline ? Mine the Gap!

The Pipeline

RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. This is why the “let’s wait” school fails; they see a prospect “at rest” and respond leaving it “at rest”; sure doesn’t take long for nothing to happen, that’s not selling. Prospecting.

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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? ” And they usually aren’t afraid to try new solutions.

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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% Prospects will ignore you messages and choose to “Do Nothing” unless you can proactively and provocatively quantify that they have a pain worth addressing.

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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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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.