Cincom Smart Selling

APRIL 30, 2020

I recently came across a nice little 2016 article by Sarah Niedoba writing for Canadianbusiness.com about 5 deal breakers that kill your sales. It’s a worthwhile read, particularly if you find that you or your team are repeatedly striking out or wasting time during the selling cycle addressing surprises and unforeseen issues.

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 4, 2020

In this article: SDR vs. BDR. Together the SDR and BDR roles entail building a business’s prospect database with leads. Each department has a specific task taking care of different aspects of prospect development. It’s inefficient and expensive to employ account executives to call prospects all day.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

The Role Shift The role of a seller needs to align with changes in buying behavior. I found the results of a recent Software Advice™ study encouraging (Software Advice™ is a sales software reviews firm ). They’re busy and just want to understand the potential value that can be realized through the usage of an offering.

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In a recent blog post from Software Advice's Lauren Carlson , this emerging CRM analyst indicates how hot the market for marketing automation software has become, and although the niche was timid several years ago, marketers are now adopting these systems aggressively. The result, more noise and less engagement.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Prospecting (25). qualifying prospects (13). qualifying sales prospects (10). sales prospecting (34). Current Articles. | Recently, I was referred to an article that addresses the challenges of being successful in selling. This changes the entire buying cycle for many who sell in todays marketplace.

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Lessonly

APRIL 28, 2021

Supportive buying cycle know-how: Supportive buy cycles relate to the mindset of how you buy as a consumer and, therefore, how you expect your customers to buy. Salespeople who control emotions are much more likely to be able to listen and respond with both prospects and reps. A strong CRM program.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2019

As you probably know, getting “ghosted” in sales means the dialogue you were having with a prospect appears to have abruptly ended. Common ones include: Timing – Your prospect may have simply been researching options and the lead isn’t yet an actual opportunity. Again, prospects often keep this to themselves. You had a lead.

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HeavyHitter Sales

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Martin: Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy. Martin: The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White: Lessons in Business and Leadership for the Executive Team. Articles That Might Interest You.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 6, 2013

Sales Training Article: Penny Wise or Pound Foolish? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation from last week's article , as part of the IIWII series. Some can quickly qualify (or disqualify) prospects. Not all sellers are created equal.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s not surprising, just getting prospects to engage at all has become so hard! If the buyer is this far along their buying cycle, you’ve missed the opportunity to influence their thinking, and winning the deal is going to be a long shot. Why successful sales people walk away.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

With this in mind, I found the results of a recent Software Advice study encouraging. Work with buying committees to assess early in buying cycles if there will be enough potential value to offset the cost of offerings. He shifted the culture to focus more on business issues rather than product issues.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 4, 2016

Decades ago, while selling clients their first business computer systems, I learned a valuable lesson: Software is only as good as the data that’s entered. Implementing software within sales organizations such as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a significant undertaking ( What is CRM?

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 4, 2018

Gerhard , Huthwaite and many other sci-fi fans have prognosticated that sales itself may face an existential threat from artificial intelligence (AI) as we move further and further toward the COMPLETE buying cycle. Andreessen put it best: "Software is eating the world." Tibor Shanto wasn't sold that the death of the salesman 2.0

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Customer Centric Selling

JANUARY 28, 2015

For that reason they don’t want sellers influencing their requirements with a bent more toward winning the business than addressing the needs of prospects. I appreciate why this view is taken, but believe most B2B sellers do try to qualify prospects to ensure their offering is a reasonable fit.

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ExecVision

JUNE 24, 2019

For the rest of this article I’ll refer to conversation style, which is a combination of two factors: Talk:Listen ratio (measured in percentages). Selling software isn’t the same as selling consumer debt repair or small business loans. The buying process for a newspaper ad is vastly different than that for enterprise software.

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Tony Hughes

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Dave Brock says it the best ever: Prospecting is the New Prospecting ! You need to pinpoint the mobilizers, your advocates and build consensus amongst champions inside the prospect's ecosystem. In selling, powerful prospects are trying to outwit you on a three dimensional chess board with a backgammon board underneath.

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The ROI Guy

MARCH 23, 2011

In a recent Harvard Business Review article , one of the most respected names in technology marketing and strategies, Geoffrey Moore discussed how diagnostic and benchmarking sales techniques can be used, particularly during a downturn, to help engage executives, open up new opportunities and unfreeze previously stuck sales processes.

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Tony Hughes

MARCH 7, 2018

What truly constitutes an ideal prospect? If you're a CXO reading this or you know one that has purchased million dollar enterprise software sight unseen, please comment. But who is teaching, don't even compete in an existing buying cycle that has a decay rate. Reinvigorated by this article? I certainly am.

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LeadFuze

MAY 11, 2021

This is easy to understand: there will be a relatively small number of companies interested in your niche software solution compared to the number of consumers interested in the latest affordable electronic gadget. This will enable you to define specific actions that are crucial for moving prospects through your sales funnel.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

And, visuals can help prospects retain information quicker and more consistently. A prospect in the first stage of the buyer’s journey isn’t aware they have a problem yet. To nurture these prospects through the buying cycle, you’ll need to leverage engaging visuals—without promoting your product or solution just yet.

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PandaDoc

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This disparity isn’t surprising, as a number of factors have come together in recent years to make B2B sales more challenging than ever: That same HubSpot report also found that 38% of salespeople say getting a response from prospects is getting more difficult. What to check out: The Battles of Starting Your First Prospecting Role.

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