Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2022

Are you order, seller, or buyer centric? Increasingly, buyers are choosing rep-free buying experiences. Buyer centricity, starts in a very different place than order or seller centric sellers. Buyer centricity, starts in a very different place than order or seller centric sellers. As a result, we focus on the buyer.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The most successful sales reps help buyers redefine their needs. Top performers not only get to the root of a buyer’s problem, but they also address the buyer’s goals and aspirations to uncover possibilities the buyer doesn’t even know exist. A capabilities battle between you and your competitors.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

Turns out, one of the main challenges in successfully guiding a prospect through the buying process is the buyer’s own lack of confidence. Research recently released from Gartner revealed that overwhelmed B2B buyers face a crisis of confidence as they increasingly struggle to make large-scale purchase decisions. buyer enablement”?—?while

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Author: Alicia McCarty As we are all very well aware, today’s buyers expect us to speak to them personally, not in their general direction; increasingly, customers want businesses to know what they want before they do and to serve them hyper-targeted, relevant content and offerings. According to Marketing Insider Group , 78 percent of U.S.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

In those times, a seller’s dynamic personality was all that was needed to keep buyers focused. When buyers are staring at a screen during a virtual meeting, they can more easily multitask. . This means sellers have a much higher bar they need to cross to capture and keep buyers’ attention. Working on other projects.

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SBI

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

This week I interview Garin Hess , Co-Founder & CEO of Consensus , whose technology solves the largest challenge in B2B sales: driving agreement across the stakeholders in the buying group. Garin: Consensus is a SaaS application designed to reveal, engage, and drive agreement in the buying group. You’ll get deals done faster.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 11, 2024

Sales leaders recently gathered to discuss the many ways that buyers are changing. As Amari Gonzalez writes for LinkedIn : “Over the past few months, we sat down with some of the most innovative sales leaders today … And [we] asked them how they are connecting with buyers.” A variety of factors are influencing their behavior shifts.

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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. How to use Buyer Intent Data Tools. Buyer intent data tools help segment and analyze the customer journey into intent and typical buyer behavior.

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John Barrows

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Selling sales training , developed by the Harris Consulting Group, to the library of sales courses available on the training video subscription service, OnDemand. Getting past surface pains to core pains by focusing on qualification, discovery, and making it easier to move the customer through the buyer’s journey at their own pace.

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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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InsideSales.com

MAY 11, 2021

SILICON SLOPES, Utah, May 11, 2021 / PRNewswire / — XANT, the enterprise leader in Guided Sales Engagement, announces the release of PeopleFinder, a Playbooks feature that identifies buyer behaviors and recommends additional ideal contacts for reps to engage so they can stop guessing and focus on selling.

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 30, 2023

Does your sales approach take buyer personas into consideration? 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. Sales professionals should seek to clarify the buyer’s value perspective.

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Allego

JULY 20, 2021

Are you ready for today’s new buyer? The management team was a group of busy executives who had many other issues to handle, and they wanted to quickly make a decision about the value of investing in Michael’s enterprise software platform during a pandemic. . They don’t address solving your buyer’s problem.

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Buyer B2B Buying Cycle Face-to-face 133

InsightSquared

APRIL 23, 2019

Now, we have “Buying Groups.” The philosophy of buying groups is to identify and engage a set of personas involved in making a purchasing decision. What the Heck Are Buying Groups? This new way of thinking about people involved in making a purchasing decision is called buying groups. How Do You Measure Success?

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The Pipeline

APRIL 17, 2014

I recently saw an ad for a sales program, and that big bold letters enticing me to buy read: “How To Get Ahead Of Your Buyer”. One of the key things we help sales teams accomplish with the EDGE framework is alignment with the buyer. The idea of getting ahead of the buyer has an old school ring of pain and needs based selling.

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Revegy

MAY 20, 2022

In the world of B2B sales, buying groups have become more complex and harder to navigate. Gartner tells us that buyers will only spend 17% of their evaluation time meeting with potential vendors. […]. The post Navigating Buying Groups: How to Identify and Conquer appeared first on Revegy, Inc.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

Turns out, one of the main challenges in successfully guiding a prospect through the buying process is the buyer’s own lack of confidence. Research recently released from Gartner revealed that overwhelmed B2B buyers face a crisis of confidence as they increasingly struggle to make large-scale purchase decisions. buyer enablement”?—?while

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Buyer Scale Face-to-face Report 156

Allego

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This data supports what we’ve known for years: inadequate sales training and enablement leads to missed revenue,” said Marc McNamara, founder and chief enabler at The Enablement Group. The post New Allego Research: Sales Reps Unprepared for Buyer Product Questions appeared first on Allego. Findings Reveal Inadequate Seller Training.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 8, 2020

To navigate these murky waters, salespeople are increasingly relying on the concept of buyer enablement – a sales approach that makes it easier than ever for buyers to champion your product, so reps can close new business. What are the four types of buyers. How do you engage a B2B buyer? What Is Buyer Enablement?

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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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Buyer Persona Top of Funnel Buyer Strategy 196

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Understanding the nature of the buyer's journey is central to conducting sound marketing and sales efforts. What the Buyer's Journey Looks Like for Consumers in 2022. What the Buyer's Journey Looks Like for Consumers in 2022. That's not to say that more conventional media has no place in the modern buyer's journey.

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Vengreso

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What worked pre-pandemic to attract the modern buyer isn’t always working now to turn prospects into buyers. If you’ve been listening to the Modern Selling Podcast for awhile, then you know that Vengreso had an amazing partnership for years with the Miller Heiman group (who was acquired by Korn Ferry).

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The Pipeline

MARCH 23, 2017

It reinforced the need for sales people, and their respective organizations to have a much better understanding of how others “work”, in this case buyers. Not that buyers needed help in that, given the numerous internal interests involved in any given purchase, CEB research showing there are up to 6.8 Illuminating the buyer’s journey.

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MarketJoy

APRIL 7, 2022

Why You Need Effective Buyer Personas for B2B Lead Generation. A buyer persona is a hypothetical customer that serves as a model of the buyer you want to target. Buyer personas can be created through research, surveys, and interviews. Use the Buyer Persona to Align Your Lead Gen and Sales Efforts. Why do they buy?

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Alice Heiman

JULY 22, 2021

Today I want to talk about what the CEO needs to do in the organization when sellers and buyers are out of sync. Sales: If you are the #CEO of an organization that is finding its sellers out of sync with its buyers, here’s what you need to do! Consider the following: 43% of B2B buyers prefer a rep-free experience, hypothetically.

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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 Buyer intent data is typically sourced from first (internal) or third (external) parties, which, when combined, offers a complete view of target account activity.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 19, 2018

In this blog, you’ll learn how to create a sales territory plan in 3 steps: Identify buyer-centric market opportunities. Step 1: Begin with a buyer-centric approach. As a cloud storage provider, the pain points associated with processing speed and data storage present another market opportunity with product development buyers.

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Showpad

JUNE 29, 2021

Engaging buyers in an effective way requires sales professionals having access to the right content and messaging for their targeted buyer roles and their business challenges. Additionally, it’s crucial that they can tailor their approach and their messages in each buyer interaction in a valuable, relevant and differentiating way.

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SalesProInsider

JUNE 2, 2022

In sales, or in customer service, we have a short period of time to identify certain customs important to buyers. A practice followed by people of a particular group. When people are willing to talk with you, they put on their “buyer hat” and adopt customs they believe they should follow when “buying.”. Introducing Tribal Types.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 23, 2019

In most cases, sellers lose deals because they don’t make the right connection with the buyer, leading to buyer apathy, indecision and stalled progress. Often, this happens because sellers have simply taken the wrong approach: one that doesn’t speak to their particular buyer. The Five Buyer Personas You’ll Encounter.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 24, 2024

Sales Acceleration Group notes that reps often think a stalled sale is simply at a slow stage in the funnel. The Sales Acceleration Group points out a few ways to identify a truly stalled deal: The prospect has ghosted you for weeks. This deal requires a buyer group's approval, and they won’t meet any time in the near future.

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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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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

With all of the distractions and channels we use to communicate, both personally and professionally, it’s no wonder that it’s nearly impossible to get through to buyers. Through the RAIN Group Center for Sales Research , we surveyed 489 sellers in 26 industries and 488 buyers representing $4.2 Direct Mail.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

AUGUST 11, 2017

But what about B2B buyers? With so much of the spotlight on what sales reps could do differently, examining and understanding the psyche of buyers often gets overlooked. It turns out that it’s buyers themselves and their attitude toward risk and change that drive their view of salespeople. B2B buyers’ opinion of salespeople.

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