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B2B ABM: Seven Sales & Marketing Tips for 2017 - Tip #6: Nurturing Triples Marketing’s Return

Pointclear

In fact, we believe just the opposite: 70% of B2B technology solution buyers want to engage with sales reps before they identify their short list. In fact, buyers perceive value in interacting with sales at every stage of the buying process—even the early stages.

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Lead Nurturing: Triple Your Marketing Return

Pointclear

In fact, we believe just the opposite: 70% of B2B technology solution buyers want to engage with sales reps before they identify their short list. In fact, buyers perceive value in interacting with sales at every stage of the buying process—even the early stages.

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Get 3X B2B Marketing ROI by Nurturing Leads

Pointclear

In fact, we believe just the opposite: 70% of B2B technology solution buyers want to engage with sales reps before they identify their short list. In fact, buyers perceive value in interacting with sales at every stage of the buying process—even the early stages.

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Sales Tips: Losing Slowly – 6 Signs That All Is NOT Well

Customer Centric Selling

During a workshop I taught, a CEO had an epiphany he shared with his team: Most of his salespeople had an annoying habit of losing slowly. In many cases, sellers fail (or are afraid) to see signs that all is NOT well: Buyers already had budget in place, often provided by “Column A” vendors. Sellers couldn’t gain access to Key Players.

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Engaging Earlier and Higher with Financial Peer Comparisons

The ROI Guy

Although buyers leverage digital more than ever in their decision making process, and as a result appear to engage with reps later in the decision making process (up to 57% of the way through), sales reps still have a big impact, ESPECIALLY if they can intersect early in the buyer’s journey, and with value.

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Sales Tips: Making Sense Of Vague Advice

Customer Centric Selling

IBM taught me about hardware and software and I mistakenly thought my job was to educate buyers. Some scotch was involved and ultimately the epiphany came. I realized the first step in selling was getting buyers to realize their manual processes were labor intensive, but more importantly were holding the business back.

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The Unlikely Lesson a Karate Master Taught Me About Sales

Chili Piper

I was looking for some serendipitous, universe-conspiring epiphany that made all the other schools look dwarf in their karate “skillness” in comparison to the one he chose. The very first interaction is forgettable, not prepared for the buyer, and not empowering the buyer. At Chili Piper, we call this Buyer Enablement.