MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

One of the keys to increasing sales is getting under the skin of the prospect or your customer, so ascertain the real needs and to get them to understand how they can improve their business using your solutions. 2) Where are you currently in the buying cycle? Happy Selling! Sean McPheat. Managing Director.

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SBI

JULY 17, 2012

Tweet Up until 15-20 years ago, and out of necessity, buyers would rely on salespeople to get information on products and services of interest to them. The Internet has forever altered the balance of power, to the buyer’s advantage. Prospects want to investigate their options when they have time (like in the evenings after dinner).

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? Automated emails are great for showing possible buyers relevant and personalized information in a timely manner. Automated emails are great for showing possible buyers relevant and personalized information in a timely manner.

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Lead411

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Buyer Intent Best Practices: How to Build a Successful Buyer Intent Process. You know buyer intent is important. So what are the first steps to get the most out of buyer intent data? It is easy to get overwhelmed at first with the thousands of topics available to choose from within the buyer intent platform.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect. And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. When B2B buyers need to solve a problem, they start researching online.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

While it is true that the only reason for a prospecting call is to set up the first formal interaction, there is so much more that can be accomplished. One thing that many fail to do in prospecting calls is set the momentum for the Discovery and beyond. Most are focused on and working on getting that primary directive right.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 23, 2017

It reinforced the need for sales people, and their respective organizations to have a much better understanding of how others “work”, in this case buyers. This has inadvertently added complexity to the buying cycle and process. stakeholders involved from the buyer organization these days. Illuminating the buyer’s journey.

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SalesLoft

JANUARY 22, 2020

Like it or not, brands like Amazon set the gold standard for buyer experience. Well, in addition to being expert data collectors, Amazon mastered the art of meeting the buyer where they are. This comedy of errors happens all too often for B2B buyers. Sales cycles are a grind. How did they do it? They listened to us.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The buying environment is becoming increasingly complex. A few reasons are likely top of mind including the emergence of new competitors, frequency of touchpoints, ever-shortening buyer attention span, and so on. This puts even more onus on marketing to educate prospects in the formats in which they want to engage.

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The Pipeline

MAY 28, 2019

To succeed in prospecting, in fact, in any element of sales, you need to own your time. As alluded to above, all humans fall into this 24-unit paradigm, including prospects and clients. This provides a couple of specific ways sellers can use the time to improve buying and selling. Lend or Stretch.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 7, 2019

The big change, is as you would expect, is driven by buyer behaviour, and since the buyer pays the commissions, it is important that we adjust our calculations and actions. Buying cycles have expanded more than measurably. Other sources confirm this trend in lengthening buy cycles.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Begin Buying Cycles with Pain vs. Goals. One of the fundamental concepts of CustomerCentric Selling® is that buying cycles begin when Key Players share goals or admit problems they’re willing to spend money to achieve or address. The major exception to this rule is doing business development.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Everyone in sales talks about how you need 5, 10, 15, or more touches to engage a buyer. From June 2019 to August 2020, my data science team at Outreach analyzed more than 12 million prospects. Sales reps only have 14 days to engage a buyer before the conversion potential is so low that it’s no longer worth following up.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2023

The software buyer's journey has shifted dramatically over the past few years. As G2's Director of SMBs, Mike Buscemi , puts it: "Software buyers today act like B2C consumers because they have so many options. Buyers have an abundance to pick and choose from.". In 2022, many buyers don't trust sales. Let's dive in.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

And while this is a fact that sales people have to deal with every day, we often forget that our buyers have to deal with the exact same limitation every 24 hour day. are common objectives for buyers. are common objectives for buyers. Therefore one of the best value adds you can deliver is bending time in favour of your buyers.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Perhaps it speak to their attire when they are asked to telephone prospect). But if managers were to actually use these tools, they would learn that sales cycles are much longer than many pretend, all while buying cycles are running much longer than buyers themselves expected when they started their buying cycle.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

So how can you scale communications with prospects and leads in the space between nurturing and closing a deal? Automated emails are great for showing possible buyers relevant and personalized information in a timely manner. Automated emails are great for showing possible buyers relevant and personalized information in a timely manner.

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Sales Hacker Training

MAY 8, 2023

6 in 10 of today’s tech buyers are millennials, and they hold the largest number of decision-making roles in corporate buying. If you haven’t already learned how to sell to millennial buyers, it’s past time to get caught up. Millennial buyers spend more time researching online, abhor phone calls and are socially conscious.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 18, 2018

There a lot of things we want to know about our buyer, role in the company, role in the decision, experience in the industry and their functional role. But the reality in a buy/sale cycle is the exact opposite. And no, I am not going to say that it is the sellers who are unprepared, that’s not the case, it is usually the buyers.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. Don’t Get Cute Neu sums it up simply: urgency is important in times of turmoil.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 12, 2017

CPQ software enhances the buyer experience and offers a unique opportunity to accelerate the process of turning prospects into buyers. Prospects have needs. Early in a buy cycle these needs are less fully developed and lack specificity. CPQ Software Elevates Confidence during the Buy Cycle.

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Cincom Smart Selling

OCTOBER 12, 2017

CPQ software enhances the buyer experience and offers a unique opportunity to accelerate the process of turning prospects into buyers. Prospects have needs. Early in a buy cycle these needs are less fully developed and lack specificity. CPQ Software Elevates Confidence during the Buy Cycle.

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Tenbound

JANUARY 3, 2024

Predictable Prospecting: How to Radically Increase Your B2B Sales Pipeline By Marylou Tyler & Jeremey Donovan Part 1: TARGET Chapter 1: Internalizing Your Competitive Position Conduct a Six-Factor analysis of your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Know where your prospects are (“what is their level of purchase intent?”

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Gong.io

APRIL 2, 2021

Sales prospecting is dead. Sales prospecting is an essential part of your process. . That’s why I stole these 10 sales prospecting techniques from the best-of-the-best sales pros. Prospecting Technique #1: Use This Cold Call Opener. Want to totally level up your sales prospecting game? Dramatic pause*. performs 6.6X

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Those prospects will spend time reviewing your content , then leave to compare your products/services with those of your competitor. A world class marketer today leverages remarketing to recapture those prospective leads. Scenario 1: Assume for a moment that your perfect prospect comes to your website. What is Remarketing?

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Consumers love to buy, but they hate to be sold. This raises a new challenge to marketers—when and how do they reach out to prospects with an authentic message to influence their buying decisions? . How Changes in B2B Buying Behavior Impact Website Strategy. more effectively.

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 7, 2013

Sales Training Article: The Foundation of Buying Cycles. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net In my mind the most important core concept of CustomerCentric Selling® is: No goal, no prospect.

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SugarCRM

AUGUST 11, 2021

Buyers demand it. Personalized content has been a no-brainer in the B2C world for many years now, but what about B2B buyers? In today’s content-driven world, personalization is becoming more and more important for new, digitally savvy, fast-paced B2B buyers as well. We said it once and we’ll say it again, personalized content.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 14, 2017

My definition of prospecting is trying to take prospects from latent to active need. Another way to phrase that is to say that: Prospecting is looking for people that aren’t looking. There are several advantages of making proactive attempts to start buying cycles: You can start at levels that have the authority to create budget.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Importantly, clear objections also tell you what the buyer is okay with. You’ll be seen as a combatant, and your prospects aren’t going to be heard. If you take the time to really listen to what your prospects are saying, and if you work with them to explore their ideas and issues, you’ll be seen in a much more positive light.

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Sales Evangelist

APRIL 19, 2019

Sellers can guide prospective customers through the purchasing journey by holding prescriptive conversations with buyers. In an attempt to help buyers make decisions, he created prescriptive tools that would help customers analyze their existing situation and compare it to the new product. Buyers are frustrated.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Electronic Starts to Buying Cycles 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 ("It Is What It Is") series. It is likely many do before vendors are contacted.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 25, 2013

Instead, their buyer was engaging with sales later in their buying cycle. The buyer had more information. The software company VP of Sales missed the shift in buyer power. The frontline of the buying cycle is research and information gathering. They proactively seek the buyer early in their journey.

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SalesforLife

MARCH 30, 2019

Turning potential prospects into customers is no longer easy for salespeople. The modern buyer is being transformed. Today’s modern buyer is drastically different than buyers of the past, and the buying cycle has also changed significantly. What can salespeople do to adapt to these changing times?

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Sellers today face a huge challenge when engaging prospective buyers: apathy. Most buyers—70%—wait to engage a seller until after they’ve finalized their needs and are ready to move forward with a solution. Buyers’ delayed engagement of sellers is the result of what we call the buyer apathy loop.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

There is no denying that 2020 has had an impact on the way by which sales professionals engage with their customers and prospects. Sales professionals and buyers alike have quickly accepted and adopted this new reality. Cited reasons are safety due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ease of scheduling, and expediting the buying experience.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Prospects and customers are more demanding than ever before. Prospects and customers expect everyone at your company to know who they are, where they are in the buying cycle, and what they need. Prospects and customers want an expert, not a generalist. Helping Buyers Achieve Their Goals.

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