Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

With conversational selling, you can attract visitors to your website, convert them to leads, follow up on previous interactions, nurture relationships with targeted content, connect prospects with your sales team when the time is right, and improve customer retention by adding value or providing timely product support. Video soars.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 31, 2020

Build Loyalty According to HubSpot research, 93% of consumers will be repeat buyers at companies with excellent customer service. It’s at least five times more expensive to bring in a new customer versus retaining an existing buyer. Even during economic uncertainty, opportunities exist with new product development. “If

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Gong.io

JANUARY 1, 2021

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. Buyer profile: the second step in any rock solid sales strategy. How do we talk to each one differently?

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Corporate Visions

MAY 22, 2019

Even if you sell a truly remarkable product, prospects aren’t likely to recognize the full value you offer. In fact, most prospects either don’t recognize or can’t articulate the root of the challenges they struggle with on a daily basis. They talk about “why us?” — why the prospect should choose them over their competitors.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2024

Through these channels, you gain more valuable first-party data about customers and prospects to inform content and product decisions. Through roadshows with portfolio companies, CMO events, and newsletters, AudiencePlus is able to resource target buyers without selling to them explicitly.

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Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 13, 2018

For your 2019 sales kickoff meeting, it’s time to think deeper about how you can prepare reps to capture more value both during the deal stage and after it when your prospects become customers and you need to expand the value of your relationship. For salespeople in negotiations, that means introducing unconsidered needs—i.e.

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Green Lead's B2B

MARCH 29, 2010

It's focused on skills, performance and retention. Buyers don't get sold to any more; they are sophisticated and want to control their buying decisions and process. Prospects communicate with vendors differently. Our goal: Get to three keepers out of four. How do you train your inside sales recruits?

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Gone is the view that marketers are harbingers of brand only; now, they’re responsible for revenue, profits, growth, and the customer experience – a paradigm shift that calls for a newer, high-performance plan capable of addressing modern marketing holistically across awareness, acquisition and retention objectives. Here’s where you start.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ultimately, you want to create a plan that sets the product apart from the competition and generates leads and customer retention. Go-to-Market Strategy Benefits As you develop a new product or service, it’s vital to start drawing a go-to-market strategy that’s customized to fit your budget and your buyer persona.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Gone is the view that marketers are harbingers of brand only; now, they’re responsible for revenue, profits, growth, and the customer experience – a paradigm shift that calls for a newer, high-performance plan capable of addressing modern marketing holistically across awareness, acquisition and retention objectives. Here’s where you start.

Marketing 120

Marketing eBook Social Media Trade Show 120

InsightSquared

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But because sales and marketing teams generally operate as separate functions, there can be a disconnect between departments that often leads to distrust. When sales and marketing alignment is successful, organizations often have a stronger understanding of their buyers’ needs. Sound familiar?

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InsideSales.com

MARCH 31, 2020

Sales process basically refers to the steps sales professionals follow from prospecting to closing a deal with a customer. By establishing a structured sales process to follow, turning a prospect into a closed client becomes easier to do for salespeople. Creating a sales process map to refine the sales process. Legal team.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Customers and prospects love you even more when your product goals mirror their business goals! What salespeople need more than anything is a simple way to facilitate prospect/customer business conversations and recognize situations where your solutions have value so they can position and discuss them at a business level. Positioning.

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 21, 2010

Today’s buyers are more conservative than ever, demanding that any investment they make drive tangible savings and business value – a fundamental change called Frugalnomics. Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques need to evolve to meet these new buyer demands.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Powerful buyer influence of software review sites like G2Crowd & Capterra. The role of text messaging and other unconventional communication channels in sales prospecting and customer success. Top Sales Trends & Predictions of 2018: Buyer Side Technology Continues to Disrupt Sales Development & Demand Generation.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2021

A good ABM marketer is always willing to step in when a deal is floundering to provide just the right piece of content, field event, direct mailer (or perhaps a cannonball) to get a prospect interested again. According to MarketingProfs , customer retention rates are 36% higher at companies where sales and marketing are closely aligned.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Using her 20+ years of trench experience in B2B tech sales and support, Anita teaches sales professionals around the globe how to leverage key principles of human psychology to help buyers make a decision in the seller’s favor. Buyers are not looking to be “sold to”. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales?

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The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 22, 2013

No matter what analyst firm you quote, everybody is reporting that sales reps are being invited to a prospect’s decision-making process later and later. And we all know it’s because buyers are self-educating more, and coming to sales conversations with an opinion, so it’s changing the way salespeople engage.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

Not only because it’ll be harder to engage prospects, but also because the workflow is so frustrating that your reps will quit. If you were able to get some results by purely using non-focused demand generation, your website, and other lead sources, scaling will be hard. The winning teams have bazookas.

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