The Pipeline

JULY 30, 2019

I’d like you to take a look at the marketing material or collateral you use to prospect and sell. For many, you will find one piece or set aimed at your market. But they are completely ignoring the buyers’ state of readiness. That is the time between NOW, and when the buyer indents on making a decision. By Tibor Shanto.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

has seen this firsthand; our data of millions of sales calls shows C-suite participation is currently up an average of 80% compared to Q1 in months like January and February, with the executives joining 92% more meetings. Understand the buyer’s focus on ROI. Embrace your new buyer persona rather than shy away. Mind the CFO.

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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. Thus, they can tailor their marketing and sales efforts accordingly. There, he introduced the importance of buyer personas.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2021

Enter conversational marketing — the new paradigm to tackling your business deals and converting prospects in minutes. What is conversational marketing? Conversational marketing is the strategy of leveraging 1:1 engagement between you and your customer in the form of real-time conversations. Problem #2: Pushy marketing.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Author: Kelly Bosetti Salespeople once played a significant role in educating buyers about their options and helping them come to a decision regarding a product or service, but times are changing. Because of this, it’s no surprise that the buyer’s journey has undergone a fundamental shift. Reaching More Educated Buyers.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2021

There’s a common misconception that both sales and marketing are not equally important. This can easily result in challenges between marketing and sales alignment. Sales and marketing might be different instruments, but they are all part of the same orchestra. How to ensure effective sales-marketing meetings.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 3, 2013

Meet Kathy. She’s a Marketing VP at a B2B logistics company. The former leader never fully supported or appreciated Kathy’s marketing team efforts. The sales force neglected to utilize marketing developed sales support materials. Kathy believed the former leader would still be here had he leveraged Marketing’s support.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 20, 2020

As startling as that statistic is, it’s not all that difficult to believe, what with buyers having ready access to digital content, their reliance on social media and the rise of e-commerce. Here are eight tactics and techniques that can help you meet your 2020 sales goals. Adapt to the Digital Business Environment. Host webinars.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Buyers struggle doing their “jobs” ……buying! We poor sellers struggle, if it weren’t for these inept buyers, selling would be so much easier. Activity levels are skyrocketing–more emails, more dials, more meetings, more demos, more proposals! But buyers aren’t pulling their weight.

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Sales Pro Central Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 12, 2022

You may have noticed a new seat at the table in your sales calls these days, occupied by someone from the C-suite (or CXO).

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 25, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan Are companies less likely to embrace meetings and events or is there a pent-up demand for getting together? Will the meetings and events industry rebound? Others feel the isolation we have endured will make people more eager to meet in person?—?or When will you feel comfortable flying again? Changes afoot.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 11, 2023

We can meet and exceed Gartner’s projection of 66 touches per meeting with all sorts of sequences that can be generated in a few minutes. But these tools are not just for us in sales, marketing, customer experience? The tools can’t understand specific contexts, which change across buyers and within the buying cycle?

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Highspot

MARCH 25, 2024

How does using one platform for all of your sales enablement efforts help enablement, marketing, and sales boost performance? Merchandise Your Content to Drive Usage Every marketing team strives to get their reps to use their content with buyers. It can be challenging though, as up to 70% of marketing content goes unused.

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Emissary

JUNE 25, 2021

In the Emissary Buyer Snapshot for Summer 2021 Playbook, we asked 191 senior executives, responsible for billions of dollars in technology spend, how they view the barrage of outreach they receive from IT vendor and technology marketers and sellers. Of course, getting the attention of buyers has never been easy. Download Now.

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 17, 2024

In B2B sales and marketing, companies employ various strategies to drive growth and expand their client base. 76% percent of BDRs report to sales over marketing. 76% percent of BDRs report to sales over marketing. They then leverage research tools and market insights to pinpoint promising opportunities.

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Zoominfo

JULY 24, 2020

In theory, your sales and marketing departments should be the best of friends. What if I told you that misalignment between sales and marketing technologies costs B2B companies 10% of revenue or more per year? Why is Sales and Marketing Communication Important? Sure, it’s a problem, but your company is doing well.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Buyer beware.” We’ve all heard that expression before, and unfortunately, it’s because buyer-seller relationships haven’t traditionally been great. Some of the characteristics and behaviors that define a good-fit buyer are obvious, while others are a bit more nuanced. Their vertical market (i.e.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2021

” With the inability to travel or actually meet F2F, we had to find a new method for engaging our customers. We’ve learned that reducing travel frees us up to spend much more time actually “meeting” with customers. ” We have always thought of things in terms of a seller interaction directly with a buyer.

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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. Does last year’s persona prepared by marketing still apply to this prospect?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

First, the bad news: Most B2B buyers don’t trust salespeople. These 30 findings from our extensive study tell salespeople exactly what to do to change this dynamic, and how to win back the respect and partnership the B2B sales-buyer relationship needs to be mutually successful. Martin , quality data meets quality research.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JULY 11, 2017

In which departments are B2B buyers more likely to give upstart products a chance? Which selling style do B2B buyers prefer? When should a salesperson challenge a buyer’s assumptions about a product, and which industries don’t like to be challenged? Research goals of the B2B buyer study. From Steve W.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Author: Mike Schultz, President, RAIN Group Breaking through and setting sales meetings with C-suite buyers is tough. Yet, many sellers are successful in breaking through and setting initial sales meetings with the C-suite. Seventy-five percent of C-level and VP level buyers are influenced by customized offers.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Though the Harvard Business Review prematurely declared it dead a decade ago , today’s top sellers have found new ways to leverage solution selling that speak directly to the attitudes and needs of modern buyers. Buyers in 2012 had come a long way from the buyers of the 1980s. Table of contents. What is solution selling?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I believe shifting our vocabularies from Buyer/Seller to Buying/Selling is much more than wordsmithing. The problem with the terms Buyers/Sellers is we focus on certain roles or people of our and our customer’s organizations. We might find ourselves failing to meet customers where they are at, in the manner they best learn.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. That’s where a go-to-market (GTM) strategy comes in. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? First, let’s define go-to-market as an overall framework.

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Zoominfo

MAY 20, 2021

Email is the OG digital marketing tool. While it might seem basic and a little bit boring, email is actually the most advanced medium of communication between marketers and their ideal customers. According to Campaign Monitor , email marketing generates $38 for every $1 spent, which computes to a 3,700% ROI. You’ll get high ROI.

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SalesProInsider

JUNE 9, 2022

Meet the Achiever Buying Tribe: How soon? Why do we need to understand the buyer Tribal Types? Let’s meet the Achiever! Let’s meet the Achiever! Achiever buyers are: Risk takers. Clues to the Buyer Tribal Type: Achiever. Selling Strategies and Tips for the Achiever Buyer Tribal Type.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

We have seen a tremendous rise in the interest and use of buyer personas since 2002. The year I first introduced the methodology for creating buyer personas specifically for marketing and sales. It will serve no purpose to rehash how much buyers have changed since then. You Have Entered New Markets.

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Allego

MARCH 7, 2023

Product marketers play a critical role in any company’s success. They’re conduits of information and the connective tissue between product developers, the marketing team, and the sales force. If you’re tired just reading that list, imagine how product marketers feel. 3 Habits of Highly Effective Product Marketers 1.

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