Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2024

Too often, there is an alignment challenge between what buyers need and what sellers do. We seem to be on diverging paths, and this creates problems for both buyers and sellers. What don’t buyers need from sellers? They definitely don’t need our current prospecting outreach.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 9, 2024

Photo by ELG21 via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: What Do Buyers Want Regarding House Sales In 2024? In the changing real estate industry, keeping up with the trends is crucial for attracting potential buyers and getting the most out of your property.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Their success hinges on buyer engagement — getting the prospect’s attention, holding it throughout the sales cycle , and maintaining interest to build customer loyalty beyond closing. Here are three must-have data tips to engage B2B prospects and customers for more wins, renewals, and growth. And guess what?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

How important are prospecting insights to your sales strategy? It could be that their sales reps know how to prospect effectively. Most likely, though, they use prospecting insights to reach their sales goals. What are prospecting insights? What are prospecting insights? It turns out they’re pretty important.

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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. The importance of buyer personas is self-evident.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 10, 2024

In the competitive landscape of B2B sales, effectively qualifying prospects is paramount. There, we looked at key indicators to assess before passing prospects to sales. Now, we’ll go further and explore strategies and best practices for improving prospect qualification.

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Lead Rank B2B Ideal Customer Profile Lead Scoring 62

Vengreso

MARCH 12, 2021

B2B sales professionals are missing out if they’re not using social media, and especially, in their LinkedIn prospecting efforts. Modern B2B buyers are now harder to reach through traditional channels than before. Therefore, modern sellers need the skills to find, engage and connect with prospects digitally. Current Company.

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Mereo

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you are like most sellers, you may not realize you could be selling solutions for your competition. What do you offer your buyers that your competitors do not? This is a common situation your buyers face every day. Stop selling for your competition with Mereo’s Contrast Quadrant. Imagine you are looking for a car.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Buyer beware.” We’ve all heard that expression before, and unfortunately, it’s because buyer-seller relationships haven’t traditionally been great. Some of the characteristics and behaviors that define a good-fit buyer are obvious, while others are a bit more nuanced. The prospect is not in your sales territory.

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Janek Performance Group

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Competition in all industries is fierce and getting tougher. Even if you have a great product, you can still struggle in sales unless you differentiate yourself from your competition. In this article, we will explore how you can differentiate yourself from your competition when selling to achieve superior outcomes. Be Memorable.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Broad economic and societal shifts — amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and continued technological disruption — are resulting in longer sales cycles, more discerning buyers, intensifying competition, and lingering uncertainty. As a result of this shift, efficient, cost-effective prospecting has become vital.

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 30, 2023

Does your sales approach take buyer personas into consideration? You know, that ideal customer profile of your best potential prospect? In this article, we will explore the concept of buyer personas and how sales reps can apply the principles of perception and persuasion for improved performance.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Buyer intent data tools make it easier to identify the when and how of a potential prospect’s consideration for purchasing a specific product or service. Buyer Intent Data Sources. According to a Gartner study, by the end of 2022, more than 70% of B2B marketers will utilize third-party intent data to target prospects.

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Allego

JULY 26, 2022

Now, B2B buyers are on the go, using smartphones, tablets, and laptops to research and evaluate vendors. It allows you to provide organizational knowledge, learning, coaching, and content to the field to gain—and keep—a competitive advantage in a buyer’s world. 6 Ways a Modern Learning Platform Gives Sales a Competitive Edge.

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Smooth Sale

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Photo by Aitoff via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Use SEO Strategy to Stand Out from Your Competition? All businesses, large and small, and those with ambitious career goals realize the need to stand out among the competition. SEO is an essential strategy assisting the effort.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Many Sales VPs are innately aware of the competition. They even track their peers’ marketing and competitive messaging. Whether your industry is mature or rapidly evolving, you must remember: Change with your customers, not your competition. These LDRs were well trained and capable of qualifying true prospects.

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No More Cold Calling

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Thanks to technology and globalization, competition is stiffer than ever. So how do you ensure that buyers choose you? Waiting for buyers to finish up their homework and come to you is not smart salesmanship. What sets you apart from all those other companies? It’s no secret that today’s marketplace is a crowded one.

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MTD Sales Training

JULY 25, 2018

Some buyers make purchases on impulse; others take their time and try to avoid risk. Some buyers are very loyal; others will automatically choose the cheapest option. Some buyers can be quite intimidating to the point of being rude; others are quite passive and easily manipulated. The Analytical Buyer. The Amiable Buyer.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 11, 2024

Sales leaders recently gathered to discuss the many ways that buyers are changing. Additionally, they must adapt to them or risk staying competitive. Buyers Are Changing Their Habits One of the biggest shifts in buyer behavior is that they are consulting their peers more often regarding purchases.

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Pointclear

AUGUST 29, 2017

The fear of loss could be fines, inability to operate your business until you are compliant or immediate competitive threats. So, you can’t wait for that condition to occur to begin selling to the prospect. Ultimate benefits resonate with your prospects’ or customers’ professional desires. Improve a product or service.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Scenario Prospect firmographics and technographics help you identify who’s a good fit for your solution — but intent data helps you target the right prospects at the right time. Intent data gives your sales teams a leg up on the competition through early visibility to developing opportunities.

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Lead411

MARCH 28, 2024

What is Buyer Intent Data and how can I use it? Understanding the Buyer Intent Data: Buyer intent data is information gathered from many sources that indicates a potential buyer’s interest or willingness to make a purchase. Understanding your target audience will allow you to better comprehend buyer intent data.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Your sales team doesn’t have time for efficiency blockers in a competitive, fast-paced market. Even if you’ve defined your ICP and created a targeted list of prospects, you may still find that your prospecting isn’t generating impactful results. Wiza allows you to export your search and build profiles on your prospects.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 11, 2013

I discuss how these Reps align themselves with the Buyer’s process to be successful. Then I provide a Buyer Alignment Tool to enable success in these environments. Frequently, Sales Reps are busy pitching their products without listening to their Buyers. They sometimes sell while the Buyer is still defining their problem.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

Every sales leader says their #1 prospecting challenge is getting leads in the pipe. B2B salespeople all look the same to our buyers. None of us stands out during prospecting. Problem is, buyers don’t actually buy software. The same is true for our buyers. Try this instead. That’s a fact. Can I Trust You?

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Alice Heiman

MAY 17, 2023

AI is having a big impact on B2B sales by empowering salespeople to focus on what they do best: building meaningful relationships with their prospects. is a Personality-driven Sales and Marketing Platform that combines neuroscience, psychology, and AI to understand the buyers’ mindset. About xiQ: xiQ Inc.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 3, 2014

This is a true story of how Social Prospecting is helping one Sales Leader. This post is about how one Sales Leader has implemented social prospecting. Their average buyer has little knowledge of his company''s full capabilities in each market. The Sales Leader realized his buyer had changed. The Situation. The Approach.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 30, 2021

Not only do buyers now prefer remote sales interactions, but they're also more than happy to make large purchases online — a trend that has sellers embracing and investing heavily in digital sales and prospecting to keep up. Let’s start with the differences that exist in buyer intent data.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 6, 2017

That’s why referral selling is the only prospecting strategy that ensures qualified lead generation. When sales reps receive referral introductions, they: Score meetings with decision-makers, while the competition is still figuring out how to get in. Spend more time with customers and less time prospecting. Prioritize referrals.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 27, 2014

Your buyer will move on to your competition—after trashing your reputation and brand on social media. Buyers value speed, which means salespeople must always be prepared to move quickly when opportunities arise. Every buyer isn’t your customer. Are you living up to your customers’ expectations? Be Realistic.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 6, 2022

The modern buyer doesn't have the patience to address basic questions with answers that anyone can find through a cursory search — nor do they have the time to fill you in on their challenges. The 18 Best Places to Research Buyers Before Sales Conversations. The Buyer’s Twitter Account.

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Close.io

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

What sets you apart from the competition? Which features are more likely to convince a prospect to buy? In short, sales battle cards are comprehensive but concise pieces of essential information that your reps can refer to when talking with prospects. Today, your prospects are fully armed with information.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 5, 2018

It’s more complex, and despite all the tech tools at our disposal, prospecting certainly hasn’t gotten any easier. Just getting prospects to return calls is hard enough. Getting meetings with decision-makers is an even greater struggle, because companies all look alike to buyers. Prospects and clients aren’t happenstance.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 21, 2023

Salespeople need to be able to neutralize and move past buyer objections to be successful, but there's a distinction between objections and brush-offs. Brush-offs are time savers — ways for prospects to get you off their back without much regard for what you‘re selling or how you’re selling it. That means learning to be disruptive.

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PandaDoc

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Sales prospecting acts as the first stage in the sales process. And poorly managed prospecting lists will result in seller fatigue. In this article, we share how leads, prospects, and customers form the backbone of an effective sales process, enabling sales teams to tackle fatigue and sometimes mundane work.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 7, 2018

In today’s blog post we explain why buyer personas are a critical—but often missing—element of your SEO strategy. What is a buyer persona? On a basic level, a buyer persona is essentially a fictional representation of the person who is most likely to buy from your company—your ideal customer. Let’s get into it!

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