The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It’s About the Buyer, Stupid! But I wouldn’t lose much sleep over it since I don’t think human nature (and yes buyers are human), has changed all that much since the advent of the web. People buy from people, not automated sales training programs or high technology CRMs. It’s About the Buyer, Stupid!

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Debbie Qaqish is Principal Partner and Chief Revenue Marketing Officer for demand generation agency, The Pedowitz Group. A nationally recognized thought leader and innovator in revenue generation, Qaqish has over 30 years of experience helping organizations connect marketing to revenue. Who is teaching the CMO how to sell?

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Highspot

AUGUST 19, 2022

87% of sales training is forgotten after a month. But also revealed to us that marketers still struggle with differentiation, demand generation, and measuring program performance. Because these platforms are how you distribute, measure, and optimize content for your sales and buyer audiences. Get a head.

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The Pipeline

JULY 18, 2011

How To Stretch Your Value to the Max! The most important lesson set in after a couple of years of this silliness, when I realised how to leverage the reverse of the phenomenon. Demand Generation. Sales Training. September 2008. August 2008. April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. December 2007.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

The difference is demos are a two-way dialogue with buyers whereas product positioning in a pure marketing sense is typically a one-way monologue where potential customers are reading, viewing or listening to something you’ve published. Then there were others where I just couldn’t get buyers fully engaged.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 1, 2021

We know how to lock down next steps or overcome the next objection. Train continuously: recommend quarterly. SALES STRATEGY STEP 2: SET UP BUYER PROFILES/PERSONAS. Now that you know which accounts to (and not to) target, it’s time to identify the individual buyers within those accounts — buyer personas/profiles.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2021

Discerning the difference between high and low-value activities allows sales leaders to choose what tools to include in their stack, as well as how to set up processes. So how to go about automating tedious tasks that take reps away from performing revenue-generating activities? The right sales tech stack.

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Allego

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Buyers have unlimited access to information and compare vendors and solutions without ever interacting with sellers. But knowing how to pivot to a modern approach isn’t obvious. Then there were opportunities for me to do training, before it was called sales enablement. Part of my job was training and enablement.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

(Deciding to better understand how your Buyers buy is a GREAT decision!). Failure to Map the Buyer’s Journey. Their teams sell a certain way because that’s how the customers have always bought! Today’s Buyers are educated. They sell one way – your Buyers prefer to buy differently. They have the power.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 4, 2013

How to Use the Thought Leadership Guide to Next Year: Download the guide. Sales Process/Sales Training. A process that does not match how your ideal customers buy won’t ensure success. Your reps are “selling” like crazy, but your buyer consumes differently. You need a method to help your buyers buy instead.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

FACT: CEO’s/CFO’s do not know and understand the dramatic shift in buyer behavior that has transpired over the last 12 months. This will assure that the right amount of potential Buyers are brought into the funnel, and subsequently passed along to your Sales Team. Plan for Joint CMO and CSO Success. Management Cost (People).

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this episode of the Sales Hacker Podcast, we have Nelson Gilliat , Demand Generation Manager at Brantr Media and Author of Death of the SDR , a book whose controversial central philosophy we discuss. What buyer-centric revenue really means. The vision for buyer-centric revenue [15:38]. powered by Sounder.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Communication , Communication Strategy , Demand Generation , EDGE Sales Process , Funnel management , Impact Questions , Interactive Selling , Next Steps , Proactive , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution , qualifying. This why, the next step is the objective of any interaction with a buyer.

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Customer Care , Guest Post , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales Training , Social Selling , execution. My presentation, “Customer 2.0, ” focused on how the buyer has changed and has more power than ever before. That is how you build trust. Ask buyers that.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

In this guide, we'll dig into how to create a sales strategy plan that helps you generate more leads and close more deals. They rely on manually-entered data to monitor the sales pipeline and coach their salespeople, and they run sales and marketing independently, creating a disjointed experience for buyers. Demand Generation.

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Crunchbase

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The trick to virtual selling is to focus on top purchase decision factors and prioritize the discovery of buyer concerns, wants and needs. It is important to make sure that you show potential prospects how you can solve their problem. Getting ready for questions: Allowing the buyers to ask questions allows you to educate them.

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SBI Growth

OCTOBER 30, 2012

They don’t see value in spending time in the field with sales to learn more about your audience and how to better engage them. Training sales to sell new products. Creating buyer personas that teach sales what to say on calls. How To Spot A ‘Doer’. Hiring PR and communications firms. This is the last thing you need.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Stored in Business Acumen , Coaching , Demand Generation , Hiring Sales Talent , Planning , Sales Force Alignment , Sales Leadership , Sales Management , Sales Strategy , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. Demand Generation. Sales Training. Dave Kahle – Sales Training. February 2008. January 2008.

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Mereo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

But when you fine-tune your organization to be buyer-first in focus and to align to your current business model and market environment, you set it on the road to sustainable revenue performance. Do they understand how to identify new value opportunities to serve existing clients? Who owns a client? What are your client retention rates?

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Mindtickle

MAY 4, 2022

Then they can look for similar abilities in new hires and train and coach their other reps to increase skill levels across the sales team. To help you identify the important abilities you need to prioritize in your hiring and training, we asked nine revenue leaders what the top sales skills are for their teams. Product knowledge. “You

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 4, 2013

This post focuses on how to make a leap forward with the Agile Performance Review. Meanwhile, Agile is spreading everywhere in Sales - to onboarding , sales management, and sales training. Persona and Buyer Process Map skills. Content creation & demand generation. Announce the annual merit increase.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 8, 2011

But in ways that sabotage the sale but scaring and/or alienating the buyer. One of the things I hear most often from people we train is that they want to create “urgency” in their buyers. But if that desire manifests itself in the wrong way, they tend to disaffect buyers. Demand Generation. Add a Comment.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Often the only differentiation available is how YOU sell; and even then the differentiation is only that which the buyer perceives. So the only thing left is to differentiate yourself by helping the buyer achieve his/her objectives. Identify buyer’s objective. Demand Generation. Sales Training.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 26, 2011

On Monday I posted about assumptions and the pitfalls of assuming that the buyer has the same understanding of a subject you do, or that they mean the same thing you do when they use a specific word. Demand Generation. Sales Training. Dave Kahle – Sales Training. From The Heart Sales Training Blog.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 16, 2011

A couple of months ago in the Pipeline, I published a piece called Long Live The Status Quo , which challenged the way most people look at buyers commonly referred to as being in Status Quo Zone. That is how most people see an initial negative response from a buyer, as rejection, rather than correction.

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Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 29, 2010

So here is what typically happens if we hire four reps, train them, get them on the floor and keep coaching them. How do you train your inside sales recruits? Us, well, here's our modified training plan. We remind them how to have a conversation with confidence. Our goal: Get to three keepers out of four.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Questions create interesting experiences for people, and don’t forget, buyers are people. One is the beliefs that all questions have an answer, and indeed, that all questions deserve or demand an answer. Demand Generation. From the time we are toddlers, to school, to early jobs; they asked, we answered. Book Notice.

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Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Sales Training Article: How to Survive the Late Release of Your New Quota. Register for a sales training workshop to get a jump start on making your new number in the new year. This year think about how you can assign the extra quota. Do you have to increase your demand generation efforts to get new leads?

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 12, 2011

If you were to sell at a price that represented full value for you, your company, and the buyer then there wouldn’t be that much talk about the whole thing would there? Lets start with the definition: Buyers will see value in those things that eliminate barriers and gaps between where they are now, and their objectives. Sales Training.

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Pipeline

APRIL 1, 2024

Train your reps to understand a lead’s challenge and offer solutions accordingly. Identify and Target Key Accounts To ensure quality lead generation, you need to identify companies who will genuinely be interested in your services. To do this, you must first create an ideal buyer persona/s.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 2, 2012

Price continues to be the boogie man for many sales people; soft economies just serve to compound and heighten the situation giving buyers an obvious lever in sales negotiations. Given that, I ask why sales people choose to focus on price, when there are clearly other factors buyers rank higher than price. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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The Pipeline

JUNE 15, 2011

For some it is the “competition”, encouraging sellers to focus on the buyer’s circumstance and market view rather than product. Demand Generation. Sales Training. Dave Kahle – Sales Training. From The Heart Sales Training Blog. Read On… What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto.

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Mereo

MAY 28, 2020

At late 2019 and early 2020 sales kickoffs and strategy meetings, leadership came to the table with winning ideas for how to strategically employ sales and marketing budgets for greatest impact. So get started now with a strategy for how you will capitalize on it, whether it is face-to-face or virtual. Your budget should follow suit.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , EDGE Sales Process , HR Management , Hiring Sales Talent , Productivity , Sales Force Alignment , Sales Leadership , Sales Training , execution. First, their view of, and approach to sales training ; second the alignment of their sales assets with clearly identifiable market segments.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 27, 2012

Ah, value, the ever-present and undefined term in sales, so before going further let’s define value right here: Definition of Value: Those offerings that remove barriers, obstacles, or helps bridge gaps present between where the buyer is now – and – their objectives! Demand Generation. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The message from blogs, webinars, tradeshows is clear: The buyer has changed and so must your prospecting strategies. Demand Generation. Sales Training. Dave Kahle – Sales Training. From The Heart Sales Training Blog. Focus Roundtable Free Online Event. Thursday November 10, 2011 3:30 pm Eastern. Sales Tool.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Focus on the buyer’s objectives, and “demo” how you can address them positively. Agree in advance on expectations and how they will be measured. Demand Generation. Sales Training. Dave Kahle – Sales Training. From The Heart Sales Training Blog. What’s in Your Pipeline?

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