A marketing leader has many marketing activities to choose from. How do you know which are the most effective at reaching new customers? Do they respond to your emails? Probably not. We’ve noticed a consistent decline in response rates. So what’s a marketer to do? MORE
How many times have you heard that you shouldn’t just present features of your product, but you should also reiterate how those features benefit the prospect? Prospecting building the value business prospecting selling features and benefits It has been the staple diet of most. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. MORE
email print I’m sure you’ve read many articles about the difference between Features and Benefits, and the importance of focusing on Benefits in discussions with your potential clients. Benefits are what your clients get from those features. MORE
Every tribe has its myths, collective beliefs, and things they claim to believe, things they avoid or adhere to, for sales the concept of Feature/Benefit is a go to favourite. Benefits? There are a number of iterations of Feature/Benefit selling that are quite effective. MORE
Yeah, yeah, we all know about the value of social selling for top of the funnel selling. How it’s great for engaging your prospects, and potential clients. We know it’s awesome for sharing information and insight. We know it’s great for listening for prospect needs and complaints. MORE
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Unless they see some sort of value or benefit in it, they wouldn’t. Key is it’s not that the customer wants to pay more, but they will because of the size of the need — or the benefit they’re looking to achieve is greater than the price. MORE
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Author: Will Spendlove, Vice President of Marketing, Salesforce CPQ Sometimes it seems as if the whole point of technology is just to replace other technology. Better, smarter machines increase the pace of life, which requires even better, even smarter machines, and so on. The sales process too has been drastically affected. In fact, buying cycles have increased in length by more than 20 percent over the past five years alone. MORE
Doing so can lead to several key benefits. 6 Benefits of Re-Skinning Existing Content. The post Content Doesn’t Have to be One-and-Done – 6 Benefits of Re-Skinning Existing Assets appeared first on Salesfusion. MORE
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The post The Benefit of Web Services to a CRM Software appeared first on Pipeliner CRM Blog. Let’s face it: the twenty-first century business environment is web-centric. MORE
In spite of its negative impact on our lives and it’s ability to keep us from doing new and different things, fear provides tremendous benefits. Capitalize on the benefits of failure, ’cause they turn into success. There are too many benefits to falling on your face. MORE
We all have sat through good and bad sales meetings, and it’s time to get serious about what I see happening far too often. The problem is the weekly sales meeting the manager has with their sales team. You know what I’m talking about. You probably are either in one on a regular basis […]. MORE
For too many, sales people provide a price, and maybe a list of features and benefits that might be translated to business value–but we encumber the customer with the job of justifying the solution themselves. To develop a great business justification, we have to really understand what our products actually do–not how they work, not all the features and benefits, but how they help improve customer results. MORE
7 Benefits of a Prescriptive Sales Process. By spelling out the steps that great sales performers use intuitively, you can develop the rest of your sales staff. MORE
The post 9 Social Media Hacks Every Small Business Can Benefit From appeared first on VerticalResponse Blog. Are you currently using social media sites to enhance your business’s online strategy? Posting to these platforms on a regular basis is a great place to start. MORE
How your CRM benefits your business? But today there is a growing movement in business practices to benefit more than the company’s bottom line—to benefit employees, the community, society in general and even the environment. How socially responsible is your CRM solution? MORE
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The post Blended Customer Retention Strategy benefits YOU and Your Clients appeared first on Babette Ten Haken. I developed a blended customer retention strategy at some point during my career. I’m not sure just when my perspective changed. MORE
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“Procrastination is a way of giving yourself permission not to do a perfect job, because usually a perfect job isn’t required.”— ”— John Perry, American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. MORE
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The post 4 Benefits of Aligning Sales and Marketing appeared first on Pipeliner CRM Blog. In today’s business enterprises, marketing and sales are commonly divorced. MORE
Stop using Features and Benefits! Instead of naming features and benefits of your product and service, why wouldn’t you start with asking questions? Here we are talking about not features, not benefits, but their hot buttons. Stop using features and benefits. MORE
Many of those articles have provocative titles or themes like, Who Benefits Most From Coaching? Who benefits most from coaching? Sometimes, I feel like I may be living on a different planet. MORE
Are you ignoring customer retention benefits? Consequently, playing defense when it comes to customer retention benefits can be costly. Also, consider whether the benefits of “sticking close to the customer” (in your perspective) actually represent the same to customers. MORE
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Sales Operations leaders have seen the power of Social Selling. The top of the funnel is filling with highly qualified prospects. Leads are being nurtured daily by reps through their LinkedIn updates and Twitter Feeds. Sales cycles that begin with an online referral are closing more rapidly. MORE
7 Benefits of a Prescriptive Sales Process. By spelling out the steps that great sales performers use intuitively, you can develop the rest of your sales staff. In most sales organizations, the majority of salespeople are B or C performers. MORE
Traditional CRM tools didn’t offer much in the way of benefit for a manufacturing sales force. The post Leading-Edge CRM Tools: New Benefits for Manufacturing appeared first on Pipeliner CRM Blog. MORE
There are clear benefits to creating a harmonious working environment between sales and marketing. Marketing would also greatly benefit by speaking directly to buyers, and thereby gain firsthand knowledge of their needs, wants and motivations. #3: The post Aligning Sales and Marketing: 4 Major Benefits appeared first on SalesPOP! In today’s business environment, Sales and Marketing are often divorced. MORE
Sales Tips: Benefits of a Defined Sales Process. Are there any benefits to following a defined sales process?”. The potential benefits to everyone are HUGE. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling®. MORE
Issue Date: 2015-06-01. Author: Doug Abercrombie. Teaser: The need for more face-to-face interaction with prospects and clients in this virtual age has never been more important. MORE
Stop using Features and Benefits! Instead of naming features and benefits of your product and service, why wouldn’t you start with asking questions? Here we are talking about not features, not benefits, but their hot buttons. Stop using features and benefits. MORE
The post How Marketing Software Benefits Your Sales Team appeared first on Salesfusion. Lead Nurture Sales CRM Website Tracking MORE
Here are three key benefits: Reps will take the training more seriously. By Sue Schnorr, ESR Contributor. We all know there are no silver bullets to sales training. But there is a critical component to designing excellent sales training and it’s one that often gets overlooked. MORE
Most salespeople in most industries have now grasped the difference between features and benefits – hallelujah, I hear you mutter in undisguised relief. Example: “ And you can enjoy all those benefits for just $200 a week.” MORE
Sales Tips: Don't Limit Benefits to Just One Perspective. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®. MORE
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JANUARY 10, 2017
There are clear benefits to creating a harmonious working environment between sales and marketing. Marketing would also greatly benefit by speaking directly to buyers, and thereby gain firsthand knowledge of their needs, wants and motivations. #3: The post Aligning Sales and Marketing: 4 Major Benefits appeared first on SalesPOP! In today’s business environment, Sales and Marketing are often divorced.
Understanding the Sales Force
OCTOBER 26, 2016
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Salesfusion
JULY 28, 2014
The post How Marketing Software Benefits Your Sales Team appeared first on Salesfusion. Lead Nurture Sales CRM Website Tracking
Babette Ten Haken
JUNE 1, 2017
Are you ignoring customer retention benefits? Consequently, playing defense when it comes to customer retention benefits can be costly. Also, consider whether the benefits of “sticking close to the customer” (in your perspective) actually represent the same to customers.
Understanding the Sales Force
AUGUST 21, 2017
Image Copyright iStock Images. Sometimes things which at first sound really good turn out to be not all that great. Take the recent eclipse for example - can you say overrated? Much ado about nothing?
The Pipeline
JUNE 13, 2016
Every tribe has its myths, collective beliefs, and things they claim to believe, things they avoid or adhere to, for sales the concept of Feature/Benefit is a go to favourite. Benefits? There are a number of iterations of Feature/Benefit selling that are quite effective.
MTD Sales Training
AUGUST 14, 2014
How many times have you heard that you shouldn’t just present features of your product, but you should also reiterate how those features benefit the prospect? Prospecting building the value business prospecting selling features and benefits It has been the staple diet of most. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Babette Ten Haken
JUNE 7, 2017
The post Blended Customer Retention Strategy benefits YOU and Your Clients appeared first on Babette Ten Haken. I developed a blended customer retention strategy at some point during my career. I’m not sure just when my perspective changed.
Customer Centric Selling
AUGUST 9, 2017
Sales Tips: 4 Unexpected Benefits of Customer Experience Programs. By Primary Intelligence , a CustomerCentric Selling® Partner.
Sales Benchmark Index
JUNE 17, 2014
A marketing leader has many marketing activities to choose from. How do you know which are the most effective at reaching new customers? Do they respond to your emails? Probably not. We’ve noticed a consistent decline in response rates. So what’s a marketer to do?
Your Sales Management Guru
AUGUST 25, 2014
7 Benefits of a Prescriptive Sales Process. By spelling out the steps that great sales performers use intuitively, you can develop the rest of your sales staff. In most sales organizations, the majority of salespeople are B or C performers.
Customer Centric Selling
JUNE 6, 2017
Sales Tips: Don't Limit Benefits to Just One Perspective. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.
Sales Benchmark Index
JULY 23, 2013
Sales Operations leaders have seen the power of Social Selling. The top of the funnel is filling with highly qualified prospects. Leads are being nurtured daily by reps through their LinkedIn updates and Twitter Feeds. Sales cycles that begin with an online referral are closing more rapidly.
The Science and Art of Selling
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
Stop using Features and Benefits! Instead of naming features and benefits of your product and service, why wouldn’t you start with asking questions? Here we are talking about not features, not benefits, but their hot buttons. Stop using features and benefits.
Pipeliner
JANUARY 23, 2014
The post 4 Benefits of Aligning Sales and Marketing appeared first on Pipeliner CRM Blog. In today’s business enterprises, marketing and sales are commonly divorced.
The Sales Hunter
AUGUST 1, 2014
We all have sat through good and bad sales meetings, and it’s time to get serious about what I see happening far too often. The problem is the weekly sales meeting the manager has with their sales team. You know what I’m talking about. You probably are either in one on a regular basis […].
The Productivity Pro
AUGUST 8, 2016
“Procrastination is a way of giving yourself permission not to do a perfect job, because usually a perfect job isn’t required.”— ”— John Perry, American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.
The Productivity Pro
JUNE 19, 2014
[…] This was originally published on Laura Stack’s The Productivity Pro blog. […
Pipeliner
APRIL 23, 2014
The post 5 Benefits of a Totally Visual CRM Software appeared first on Pipeliner CRM Blog. CRM solutions—and software solutions in general, really—have always evolved toward visualization.
Vertical Response
AUGUST 25, 2015
The post 9 Social Media Hacks Every Small Business Can Benefit From appeared first on VerticalResponse Blog. Are you currently using social media sites to enhance your business’s online strategy? Posting to these platforms on a regular basis is a great place to start.
The Science and Art of Selling
OCTOBER 14, 2014
Stop using Features and Benefits! Instead of naming features and benefits of your product and service, why wouldn’t you start with asking questions? Here we are talking about not features, not benefits, but their hot buttons. Stop using features and benefits.
Customer Centric Selling
MAY 12, 2016
Sales Tips: Benefits of a Defined Sales Process. Are there any benefits to following a defined sales process?”. The potential benefits to everyone are HUGE. By Gary Walker, EVP of Channel Sales & Operations, CustomerCentric Selling®.
Pipeliner
JANUARY 25, 2014
Traditional CRM tools didn’t offer much in the way of benefit for a manufacturing sales force. The post Leading-Edge CRM Tools: New Benefits for Manufacturing appeared first on Pipeliner CRM Blog.
Pipeliner
JULY 24, 2013
How your CRM benefits your business? But today there is a growing movement in business practices to benefit more than the company’s bottom line—to benefit employees, the community, society in general and even the environment. How socially responsible is your CRM solution?
Jonathan Farrington
OCTOBER 26, 2012
BOST Benefits works with individuals, families, small businesses, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies across the United States. Since 1980, the priority has been delivering consumer centered benefits and impeccable service.
A Sales Guy
JANUARY 7, 2014
In spite of its negative impact on our lives and it’s ability to keep us from doing new and different things, fear provides tremendous benefits. Capitalize on the benefits of failure, ’cause they turn into success. There are too many benefits to falling on your face.
Vertical Response
JUNE 17, 2015
We’ve put together a three-part guide on the benefits of autoresponders and explore the various kinds of trigger-based emails and when to use them. In part one, we cover the following: The Benefits of Autoresponders. The Benefits of Autoresponders.
Dave Stein's Blog
MAY 29, 2012
Here are three key benefits: Reps will take the training more seriously. By Sue Schnorr, ESR Contributor. We all know there are no silver bullets to sales training. But there is a critical component to designing excellent sales training and it’s one that often gets overlooked.
Partners in Excellence
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
Many of those articles have provocative titles or themes like, Who Benefits Most From Coaching? Who benefits most from coaching? Sometimes, I feel like I may be living on a different planet.
Sales and Marketing
MAY 21, 2017
Author: Will Spendlove, Vice President of Marketing, Salesforce CPQ Sometimes it seems as if the whole point of technology is just to replace other technology. Better, smarter machines increase the pace of life, which requires even better, even smarter machines, and so on. The sales process too has been drastically affected. In fact, buying cycles have increased in length by more than 20 percent over the past five years alone.
Pipeliner
APRIL 15, 2014
The post 5 Cost Benefits of a Cloud CRM Solution appeared first on Pipeliner CRM Blog. Part of the debate over the move to a cloud CRM solution centers around costs.
Sales and Marketing
JUNE 1, 2015
Issue Date: 2015-06-01. Author: Doug Abercrombie. Teaser: The need for more face-to-face interaction with prospects and clients in this virtual age has never been more important.
Jonathan Farrington
JULY 8, 2012
Most salespeople in most industries have now grasped the difference between features and benefits – hallelujah, I hear you mutter in undisguised relief. Example: “ And you can enjoy all those benefits for just $200 a week.”
Salesfusion
OCTOBER 20, 2015
Doing so can lead to several key benefits. 6 Benefits of Re-Skinning Existing Content. The post Content Doesn’t Have to be One-and-Done – 6 Benefits of Re-Skinning Existing Assets appeared first on Salesfusion.
Salesfusion
JANUARY 7, 2014
You may first partner with us because we offer the best partner compensation and benefits in the industry. [one_half valign="middle"] Partner Portal. Why Partner With SalesFUSION. [/one_half]
A Sales Guy
MAY 6, 2015
Yeah, yeah, we all know about the value of social selling for top of the funnel selling. How it’s great for engaging your prospects, and potential clients. We know it’s awesome for sharing information and insight. We know it’s great for listening for prospect needs and complaints.
Sales and Marketing
AUGUST 23, 2015
Issue Date: 2015-08-24. Author: John McGee, CEO of OptifiNow. Teaser: No matter if your business has traveling sales teams or not, there are aspects of that type of sales relationship that should still exist in every business transaction today.
Partners in Excellence
MARCH 26, 2013
For too many, sales people provide a price, and maybe a list of features and benefits that might be translated to business value–but we encumber the customer with the job of justifying the solution themselves. To develop a great business justification, we have to really understand what our products actually do–not how they work, not all the features and benefits, but how they help improve customer results.
Ian Brodie
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
email print I’m sure you’ve read many articles about the difference between Features and Benefits, and the importance of focusing on Benefits in discussions with your potential clients. Benefits are what your clients get from those features.
The Sales Hunter
JUNE 11, 2013
Unless they see some sort of value or benefit in it, they wouldn’t. Key is it’s not that the customer wants to pay more, but they will because of the size of the need — or the benefit they’re looking to achieve is greater than the price.
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