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With Buyers’ and Sellers’ Roles Upended, B2B Sales and Marketing Alignment Is Critical

Sales and Marketing Management

With prospects now driving their own problem-solving journeys, sellers must design their entire go-to-market strategies around enabling and facilitating the buyer-led process.

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Prospects Are Not Buyers

The Pipeline

There are a lot of blurred lines in business and sales, leading to blurred conversations, and longer sales cycles. One blur is the line between who is a buyer and who is a prospect. Assuming buyers and prospects are the same and the words interchangeable perhaps explains the output numbers year after year.

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What Buyers Want From Sellers

Sales and Marketing Management

Are your prospects ignoring your calls and email messages? In a buying situation, most prospects want the answer to a key question: What’s in it for them? And […] The post What Buyers Want From Sellers appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. That’s not unusual.

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Sales prospecting made easier

Sales 2.0

Meanwhile most high tech companies accept this level of productivity in their sales departments. This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. It can be a critical step in filling your sales pipeline with great opportunities. Your prospect decides to do?

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Buyer Intent Data Guide: How to Find Prospects Already Looking to Buy

Teams of all sizes can utilize buyer intent data to more effectively identify where prospects are on their purchase journey, and thus adapt marketing messaging and sales pitches to align with those specific interest signals collected. How to incorporate buyer intent data into your outbound prospecting.

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Don’t Make These 11 Email Prospecting Mistakes

Sales and Marketing Management

Eighty percent of buyers prefer to be contacted through email, but your efforts could fall flat if you make these 11 email prospecting mistakes. The post Don’t Make These 11 Email Prospecting Mistakes appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Truth Bomb: Salespeople All Look Alike to B2B Buyers

No More Cold Calling

How do B2B buyers tell one internet security company from another? One marketing platform or sales enablement app? There’s nothing unique and certainly no reason for B2B buyers to spend time hearing their pitches. But that’s not happening in most sales organizations. None of us stands out to B2B buyers.

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How to Use Video Throughout the Buyer's Journey

Speaker: Zach Basner, Director of Video Training and Strategy, IMPACT

Forrester Research Group reports that on average 70% of a buyer’s purchasing decision is made before engaging with a sales team. For many of us, that means we must become great educators and provide the best answers for our prospects at every stage of their journey. What videos work best to engage your buyers at each stage.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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So What. So What's Changed?: A Conversation on Customer Engagement for 2022 and Beyond

Speaker: Peter Turley, Author and Award-Winning Marketing & Sales Speaker

Our job isn’t to remain stalwart in the face of this trend, but to tailor the way we present our business that meets the buyer where they are now. When your first impression to your prospective buyer grows more and more salient, how should you be rethinking ways to engage with them? when engaging your potential buyer.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success. Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation.