Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

APRIL 30, 2024

It affects how the person doing the asking is perceived. It’s really about giving your buyer a greater sense of control. Don’t bully your buyer That’s an idea that runs counter to many traditional closing techniques, which are built on the idea of the salesperson controlling the conversation. & Pascual, A.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 30, 2023

Way back in 2015, I published a blog post: Girl Power: Men with Daughters Get It. To all the men who are doing their part to make the workplace work for women, you have my heartfelt thanks during Women’s History Month 2023. Not hard to do, right? Women do impressive things like this all the time … now.

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Referrals Cold Calling Social Media Call-back 156

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Hopefully, they’re on your website, digesting your blog posts, videos, and case studies.). In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. How to Build a B2B Sales Funnel (4 Stages).

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Funnel B2B 179

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s a popular saying in business circles, but it holds true: People do business with people they know, like, and trust (especially in the business world). Whether we realize it or not, we want to buy from people we can trust. People who do what they say, fulfill their promises, and fix things when they go wrong.

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Social Media Top of Funnel Face-to-face Conference 227

Zoominfo

MAY 27, 2021

In a world inundated with data and the solutions that promise you the ability to achieve a competitive edge , we’re often left thinking: “How?”. Just how do businesses with access to so much rich information actually, truly use it to their very individual advantage? But how does ZoomInfo Intent work? That’d be something.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 4, 2024

He understands that time is valuable, so he shares suggestions that will quickly appeal to buyers and move things forward. Instead, clearly state how your solution can directly improve their business. “By Now, this will require some pre-call research to learn just how your solution meets their needs. Not sure where to begin?

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Prospecting Social Media Hiring Call-back 92

Showpad

MAY 12, 2022

Here’s how they did it. While marketing was creating and organizing valuable content for sales reps to use, reps were often still unaware of what resources were available and how to best use them. No matter how good a sales rep is, they can’t do that forever. A brand new function … and a pandemic.

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Industry Sales Enablement Hiring Telecommunications 98

Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. How do you know if a potential customer is a good fit for your solution? How do you know whether to move prospects through your sales funnel or disqualify them? Read on to learn more.

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Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 149

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Buyers struggle doing their “jobs” ……buying! We poor sellers struggle, if it weren’t for these inept buyers, selling would be so much easier. We know 60% of committed buying processes end in no decision made. But buyers aren’t pulling their weight.

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Buyer Face-to-face Proposal Up-Sell 94

Janek Performance Group

APRIL 30, 2024

Our blog Leveraging the Pygmalion Effect to Transform Sales Teams discussed how this concept can motivate and inspire sellers. Specifically, in how a salesperson’s expectations can boost confidence and motivation. They note 71% of B2B buyers say most sales interactions feel transactional. New sensor did the trick.”

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Motivation Customer Lead Rank Loyalty 62

Smooth Sale

MARCH 10, 2024

Photo by Andrea Schit z via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Know How To Increase B2B Sales? Our collaborative blog offers ideas to help improve your B2B business sales. __ Increase B2B Sales 1. Buyers like to shop from businesses they know and trust.

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B2B Top of Funnel How To Sales Qualified Lead 104

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2022

Are you order, seller, or buyer centric? In this world, the ideal thing is the customer has educated themselves, is knowledgeable, may have a few final questions and issues (price is always the key one), and the customer makes a buying decision. It just requires us to manage the end of their buying process efficiently.

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Buyer Face-to-face Groups Objections 133

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. Hopefully, they’re on your website, digesting your blog posts, videos, and case studies.) In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. Let’s start with that dream customer.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Funnel B2B 130

Zoominfo

MARCH 5, 2021

To contend with the best, your team needs to learn how to create a content marketing strategy that is not only engaging but informative in key areas of focus for your audience. How to Develop a Content Marketing Strategy. Do you want your assets to generate traffic? Create Your Buyer Personas.

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Strategy Marketing Buyer Persona Sales Qualified Lead 257

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In recent years, we’ve acknowledged the concept of a customer Buying Process. Many have argued abandoning the Selling Process, focusing on the Buying Process, in the least we must align the selling process with the buying process. The reason is, for complex B2B buying, it’s something they rarely do.

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Analysis System Selling Skills Buyer 107

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We do the same things day after day. We prospect to find new opportunities, we work on deals, helping the customer move through their buying process and selecting a solution. While each situation is different, in general, the activities we do are similar. We do the same thing day after day, week after week.

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Buyer Customer Face-to-face Proposal 124

Partners in Excellence

JULY 29, 2022

Increasingly, we see very powerful ways that sellers and customers can engage in their buying process and learning. They can track how this content is used, which content the buyers focus on. Some Digital Selling Rooms provide capabilities for the buying team to “talk” privately among themselves.

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Channels Buyer Vendor Tools 85

Partners in Excellence

JULY 13, 2021

It’s so intriguing, we see our customers and prospects struggling with buying. According to research, the majority of the time they fail in their buying journey, abandoning it. Buying is, without a doubt, broken! One would think this would drive a change in how we sell. Buying is, without a doubt, broken!

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Buyer Objections Customer Relationals 109

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” If focused on how profoundly selling is changing—Wow, I’ve never heard that before. It focused on buyers spending less time with sales people, quoting a Gartner survey, suggesting they get their information from other sources. There’s a whole bunch more data in that report, The B2B Buying Journey.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Recently, I’ve been trying to shift my own thinking and vocabulary about buying and selling. I believe shifting our vocabularies from Buyer/Seller to Buying/Selling is much more than wordsmithing. It forces us to change our perspectives about how our customers buy—or drive their problem solving/change initiatives.

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Buyer Channels Vendor Strategy 118

Janek Performance Group

MARCH 26, 2024

Among the myriad of tools and strategies available, one aspect stands out: buyer personas. Crafting detailed buyer personas allows organizations to humanize their target audience. There, he introduced the importance of buyer personas. Here, we’ll go a step further and show how to utilize them to meet your customers’ needs.

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Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

Then, we‘ll discuss how you‘d actually go about using it in practice, and share a few helpful examples to illustrate. A B2B sales funnel is a stage-by-stage model that depicts how B2B prospects move through the buying process. A given buyer might not necessarily move linearly along this pathway. Consideration.

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Top of Funnel Funnel Examples B2B 133

SalesFuel

APRIL 15, 2024

Sellers who want to connect with buyers must prioritize personalization in sales. With buyers more informed than ever, sellers need to differentiate themselves. Buyers want to work with sellers who know them and their business. This makes them more relevant to the buyers' needs than sellers who don’t personalize.

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Hiring Cold Calling How To Social Media 52

Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 12, 2020

Today, the information that buyers need to make a purchase decision is just a click away. The power in the buying and selling process has shifted from the seller to the buyer. The buying process is transformed. And that means to keep up with today’s empowered buyer, the sales process needs to transform too.

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Inbound Top of Funnel Outsourcing Services Hiring 138

Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As sellers, the pandemic has forced us to rethink our work and how we engage our customers. BTW, this isn’t really a new insight, Hank Barnes has been doing very thoughtful research for years. And some organizations have discovered profound things that re-shape how they sell. This creates both opportunity and threats.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Hank Barnes’ research on buyer remorse (and other things) is some of the most important research for sellers to understand. ” This is a key issue, if your customer isn’t committed to doing the work, if they are taking shortcuts through their buying process; are these really high quality deals. .”

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Customer Buyer Research Up-Sell 99

Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

And while there are others who understand the benefits of a modern sales approach, they are unable to secure executive buy-in, and therefore struggle to enforce the techniques with their team. These barriers hurt the long-term success of sales teams because of one truth: the modern buyer has changed their decision-making process.

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Janek Performance Group

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While likability can be a huge plus in sales, it’s not the only reason buyers buy. Buyers buy whether they like the seller or not. It found 89 percent of elite sellers said they do not need to be liked. However, among the weakest, 86 percent said they do. However, among the weakest, 86 percent said they do.

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Collateral Social Media Referrals Social Selling 62

Smooth Sale

APRIL 1, 2024

Pexels – CC0 License Attract the Right Job or Clientele: How to Handle Hard-To-Access Rural Property Owning property may seem like the ultimate asset but having that in your portfolio (however modest) is usually good. Our collaborative blog provides insights on how to handle hard-to-access rural property.

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How To Hiring Licensing Networking 95

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I can see how you might think that. The thing is, salespeople tend to assume that providing customers with more information makes it easier for them to buy from you. So, what’s a salesperson to do? How can you make it easier, not harder, for prospects to buy from you? What do they care about?

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Customer Analysis Buying Cycle B2B 59

SalesFuel

APRIL 1, 2024

Revisiting and refreshing foundational skills will keep you competitive and in line with modern buyers. Not all sellers do their research prior to meeting with a rep. This means it’s up to you to educate the buyer. The higher quality of pre-call research you do, the more confident the buyer will be in your solution.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Face-to-face 52

Highspot

JULY 5, 2023

This question is top of mind for sales leaders today, as research we commissioned from a leading B2B research provider confirmed that driving buyer urgency was ranked one of the top three sales challenges for CROs this year. Here are data-driven tips to optimize your buyer engagement and enable your reps to win more deals.

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Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Cycle 52

Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

and more about how we'll sell them. This is largely influenced by the changing expectations of buyers, which have seen considerable shifts in the past few years. Furthermore, they are freed from the hassle of scouring multiple websites to gather buyer information and then manually summarizing it." Publish case studies on a blog.

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Hubspot Lead Rank Data Social Media 96

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Whether it’s emails, social visibility, SEO, or anything else, the focus is on getting buyers to take the initiative to reach us. We create volumes of dials, scripts, sequences focused on, “buy my product.” Relying on inbound, we leave all the heavy lifting of managing their buying process to the buyers.

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Inbound Face-to-face Lead Gen Vendor 68

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 26, 2021

We’ve mechanized the process, focusing on our efficiency and less the customer buying experience. The percent of customers abandoning their buyer’s journey with no decision made is very high-at 53%. And buyer regret is increasing at an alarming rate. Do we care enough about the buyer and their success?

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

DECEMBER 19, 2023

When you closed that big sale a month ago, your buyer was enthusiastic. But now that you’ve actually delivered, the buyer’s mood seems to have changed. Will she be as eager to buy from you next time? Did you do something to blow the opportunity? Salespeople don’t cause buyer’s remorse. And why did it happen?

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

But more broadly, what’s the impact of giving gifts to customers or clients, and how is gift giving likely to affect their view of you? You probably know about the psychological principle of reciprocity: If you do something for someone, they feel obliged to return the favor. Will it help you close a sale or get more business?

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