The ROI Guy

MARCH 11, 2014

Today’s buyer is more empowered than ever before, leveraging content from the Internet, discussion groups and social media to take charge of the purchase decision-making process. The question was posed as a key portion of IDC’s annual 2013 IT Buyer Experience Study , surveying over 200 executive decision makers worldwide.

Decision Maker 76

Decision Maker ROI Scale Case Study 76

Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And they’re online buying signals—the data trail—that prospective buyers leave as they research solutions online. Buying signals in marketing are essential for qualifying leads by showing prospective buyers the right content at the perfect time. When B2B buyers need to solve a problem, they start researching online.

Lead Rank 309

Lead Rank Intent Data Closing Buyer Intent 309

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

How can a salesperson get the attention of decision-makers in the HR department? What’s the scope of responsibility for an HR decision-maker? “I get involved with the relationships that we have with vendors, service providers, and product provisioning,” Kingsley says, “that speaks to the employee experience. .

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Resources Decision Maker Compensation Vendor 224

DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 11, 2017

The number of factors at play in purchasing decisions are too numerous to count – ranging from pricing, to product features, to reputation of the vendor, to the sales experience and so forth.n But what about B2B buyers? Download the free B2B Buyer Persona study in full. B2B buyers’ opinion of salespeople.

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B2B Buyer Buyer Persona Real Estate 145

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 24, 2019

How about a buyer who enjoyed receiving cold calls? In fact, that’s why many buyers shy away from gated marketing content.). Social channels can provide valuable insight into prospects and decision-makers, which has prompted some sales pros to wonder if cold calling is dead, replaced by so-called “smart” or “warm” calling.

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Cold Calling Referrals Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation 269

Corporate Visions

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The post Are Buyer Personas Sabotaging Your Sales? One of the most popular “best practices” in B2B sales and marketing is to create buyer personas. Typical buyer personas include a character sheet full of your prospects’ demographics, challenges, goals, and KPIs. Buyer Personas Don’t Create Urgency to Change.

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Buyer Persona Buyer Decision Maker Demand Generation Agencies 100

Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2021

Investing in buyer intent data is one of the best ways to differentiate yourself — now, more than ever. And those that have adapted, now grapple with stronger competition and shifting buyer behavior. And those that have adapted, now grapple with stronger competition and shifting buyer behavior. Improving account-based targeting.

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Buyer Intent Intent Data Intent Top of Funnel 98

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Once you start selling into the enterprise world, you’re greeted with more complex processes, more decision-makers, and slower-churning gears. You can run into dozens of decision-makers and influencers on a buying committee, grapple with increased demo demands, and face requests from various departments.

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Enterprise Enterprise Decision Maker Churn 130

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 26, 2023

If the prospect says, "I don’t know" to any of those questions, they're either not serious or not a decision-maker. Somewhere during the approval process, the real decision-maker will ask them those same questions. You're competing with three or more vendors. When do you need to have this project done?

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Prospecting Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring 112

Emissary

JANUARY 31, 2023

According to Gartner research, buyers facing moderate to high environmental uncertainty are 30% less likely to complete a purchase. But you can still conquer a slow market by taking a strategic approach to grow existing accounts. How are buying decisions made? How do decision-makers prefer to engage?

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Account Decision Maker Face-to-face How To 96

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The more aligned we are to the buyer’s perspective, the more effective we can be in introducing insights. Insights that inform the buyer based on their objectives. Which explains why at times we really hit it off with a buyer, and when not aligned, we completely bomb. Buyers Done. The whole project, not just your product.

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Outsourcing Services B2B Decision Maker ROI 203

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 27, 2023

You have to be prepared to meet them at every stage of the buyer's journey and frame yourself as a knowledgeable, reliable, trustworthy resource. A prospect could be an amazing fit on paper, but if they don't have the budget or leadership isn't considering vendors at the moment, you don't want to waste too much time on them.

Top of Funnel 101

Top of Funnel Hubspot Buyer Prospecting 101

Zoominfo

JULY 18, 2018

Landing an in-person appointment with a key decision-maker provides salespeople with the opportunity to respond directly to a prospect’s needs and pain points. The buying committee involves many more influencers and decision-makers. Position yourself as a partner or a consultant to the buyer rather than a pushy salesman.

B2B 180

B2B Decision Maker Face-to-face Referrals 180

Pointclear

MAY 7, 2013

In 2002, Tony established the first buyer persona research methodology designed specifically for B2B marketing and sales. This innovation helps leading companies gain better understanding of their buyers, leading to improved lead generation and revenue performance. Understand the Buyer''s Backstory. Study Lead Behavior.

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Buyer Buyer Persona Buying Cycle Sales Qualified Lead 189

Highspot

MARCH 3, 2022

Sellers today can meet with buyers in several different ways: in-person, virtual, telephone conference calls, or any combination of the three. Before the pandemic, most sellers and buyers met in person, which gave them the opportunity to build rapport face to face. Attendees in the hybrid group also didn’t share a similar experience.

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Research Buyer Face-to-face Decision Maker 52

Pipeliner

JANUARY 23, 2018

You can’t blame today’s buyers for being a bit skeptical. A history of vendors making similar claims, over-promising and under-delivering could make a skeptic out of anyone! Here are four techniques that can help you win over skeptical buyers in your presentation or meeting. 1) Make your case early. 3)You are always “on stage”.

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Buyer Decision Maker Vendor Closing 97

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. Ultimately, the sales funnel’s success depends on the rep’s ability to engage the prospective buyer. Consideration Stage.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Funnel B2B 179

Emissary

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As a result, business executives will weigh in on technology decisions and risk analysis will drive their selections. . Key decision makers are hard to reach. . Even though technology buyers are looking for more from their vendors, they have less time to spend with sales reps during the buying process.

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Industry Decision Maker How To Vendor 52

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

According to a the Forrester Consulting Q3 2019 Global Content Preferences study, 87% of technology buyers said that they want vendors to understand their business, industry or market conditions, and 83% want vendors to understand what’s most important to their job. The health of companies’ data will become imperative.

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Trends Ideal Customer Profile InsideView Customer 156

CloserIQ

AUGUST 5, 2019

When you’re selling to a mid- or lower-level buyer, it’s usually a multi-step process to get to the real decision-maker. But selling to C-level buyers requires a different approach than with typical buyers. They know what these buyers care about and how to get through to them. .

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Buyer Gatekeeper Vendor Decision Maker 89

Janek Performance Group

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Maybe it was the price, or your seller couldn’t sway a decision maker. Your buyers too may be hesitant. Another consideration is how well your sales process aligned with the buyer’s journey. Today, the buyer’s journey is increasingly complex. For one thing, buyers are better educated.

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Analysis Decision Maker Scale Survey 62

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. Aside from helping reps make the most of their time, there are other benefits to qualifying your potential buyers. . Proper qualification ensures that your reps focus on the right buyers. Employee count.

Ideal Customer Profile 149

Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead Lead Scoring 149

No More Cold Calling

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

They’ve become convinced that digital technology should solve all their business development challenges, but there’s still no button to push that will make gatekeepers grant them access to decision-makers. The decision-makers you want to reach aren’t playing hide-and-seek with your team.

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Gatekeeper Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Decision Maker 306

Zoominfo

APRIL 7, 2020

How can a salesperson get the attention of decision-makers in the HR department? What’s the Scope of Responsibility for an HR Decision Maker? I get involved with the relationships that we have with vendors, service providers, and product provisioning,” Kingsley says, “that speaks to the employee experience.

Resources 130

Resources Decision Maker Compensation Vendor 130

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In an interview with Randy Perry, VP of Business Value Consulting for IDC, we discussed several key changes in purchase decisions for hardware, software, Cloud and services, leveraging IDC’s research from over 400 enterprise buyers over the past two years. The conundrum?

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Buyer Lead Rank Decision Maker Analysis 74

Zoominfo

OCTOBER 14, 2018

In fact, 78% of decision-makers polled have taken an appointment or attended an event that came from a cold call ( source ). Bad data might be an issue if you can’t reach your buyers, you’re calling the wrong people, or if you feel unprepared for your calls. 88% of buyers will have nothing to do with cold callers ( source ).

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Cold Calling B2B Decision Maker Data 198

Miller Heiman Group

MAY 28, 2019

Today, buyers wait longer than ever before engaging a salesperson. In part, that’s because buyers turn first to many other resources—including social networks and trade publications—before turning to salespeople to solve business problems, according to the CSO Insights Buyer Preferences Study. How to Break the Buyer Apathy Loop.

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Buyer Decision Maker Study Follow-up 81

Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

For sales professionals selling to high-level decision-makers, the question is how we handle unconscious biases that negatively impact our outcomes. Decision-makers in a position of power have a dominant identity, making it challenging to teach them new things. Decision-makers do the same thing during the buying process.

Decision Maker 62

Decision Maker Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer 62

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

To start with not every buyer has a Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn account. But hype is something decision makers have a radar for, serious decision makers want facts not hype, they want tangible things that help them achieve their objectives. Let’s look at the “short list claim”, and decision makers.

Cold Calling 292

Cold Calling Social Media Decision Maker Lead Rank 292

Gong.io

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The thought of closing a large enterprise deal with more than one decision-maker involved can sound intimidating. The Miller-Heiman framework offers sellers a more effective way to close enterprise sales — deals that involve large decision-making groups and long sales cycles. Categorize your decision-makers.

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Sales Process Decision Maker Sales Methodology Face-to-face 62

SBI

APRIL 3, 2012

But I caution buyers from placing too much importance on the array of features, regardless of initial attraction. CRM vendors certainly know how critical ease-of-use is. Answer: decide accordingly based on your own experience not a vendor demo. Tweet Customer Relationship Management.

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Vendor CRM Decision Maker System 120

SBI

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Sellers can quickly search and filter to identify influencers and decision makers and save them as leads to create high quality lead lists. Give your sales and marketing professionals a unique and easy way to build relationships with your buyers. Or, click here to follow all 20 vendors at once! LinkedIn ToolSkool.

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Vendor Twitter InsideView InsideSales 139

Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It’s time to build a sales funnel that captures and converts your best buyers. In fact, the majority of B2B buyers (64%) conduct research on vendor websites before they ever contact a sales rep. Ultimately, the sales funnel’s success depends on the rep’s ability to engage the prospective buyer. Is there more than one?

Top of Funnel 130

Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Funnel B2B 130

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

APRIL 18, 2023

So your challenge is to find ways to increase the pain customers would feel if they deserted you for another vendor. These “entangled” relationships add value and become difficult for your buyer to unravel. Your buyer may end up thinking: “This is stuff is routine. Let’s look at three of these entanglement strategies: 1.

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Decision Maker Customer Journal Loyalty 52

A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 10, 2011

It’s great support for yesterdays post, Passive Buyer’s Aren’t Buyers at All. In cases like this, which our research shows can be nearly 20 percent of all sales opportunities, the customer will assign a more junior member of their organization to field an RFP and meet with other possible vendors.

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Buyer Vendor Decision Maker Face-to-face 90

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s time to deal with it; it’s time to learn from buyers, why are there more players? Buyers are bringing focus and proficiency, as you should. Start by breaking things down, again like buyers. Focus your view and actions, look at how they make decisions, not only how they buy, the two are different. The answer is yes.

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Decision Maker Buyer Lead Rank Groups 266

DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

You’ll get different answers from different people across the team, because the idea of a “target buyer” is inconsistent, nebulous, and often based on hunches and feelings – not data. In this the step, decision makers that fit the ICP are identified. At some point, they decide they need to know more about their buyers.

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Ideal Customer Profile Account Based Marketing Decision Maker Lead Rank 150