Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2024

Are you ready for a shocking, next-level revelation that's going to turn your world upside down? The Overly Demanding Prospect Jason Hunt , CMO and Co-founder of Merged Media , referenced running into trouble with buyers who ask too much of salespeople. Here it is: Prospects aren't always easy to deal with. You're welcome.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 8, 2022

A couple of years ago, we learned 43% of buyers want no sales involvement–it’s a waste of their time, they feel they can learn better through other resources. All indications show that trend is increasing, we now expect more than 60% of buyers prefer a Rep-Free experience. Buyers are struggling more!

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 21, 2023

At the same time, we see similar data on “buyer regret.” Too often, we see buyers buying not because of what we have done, but in spite of what we have done. Yet we revel in the “win,” high fiving each other, looking forward to our commission checks. We are driving buyers away!

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The profound implications of this revelation invite us to ponder the untapped potential lying dormant within our subconscious minds. Employing language grounded in emotion can dissolve the barriers that often erect themselves between the seller and the buyer, paving the way for a more harmonious and relaxed exchange.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 3, 2017

This is an area that salespeople revel in. This is something that is a major component of any commercial conversation that provides social proofing and validates the buyers gut feel about why they should move forward with you. Here are his three and my fourth: LOGOS.

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SBI Growth

MAY 13, 2013

Don’t get me wrong, I revel in an easy solution. In this article I will address an alternative way to look at objection handling – from the point of view of the buyer. You also must know where your customer is on the Buyer Process Map. Every buyer will (knowingly or not) travel through these buying stages. Avoid them.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

” Some marketing and sales enablement people are reveling in the new content challenge, thinking, they have to provide content and related support for every one of these points in the buyer journey. The thinking is, “We must mirror the buyer journey.”

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Marketers are reveling in this transformation, thinking, “More content, more automation tools, more spending…” Sales people are rejoicing, as well, thinking, “Now we only have to get involved in the end of the process.” And this is what all of us in sales need to think about.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

I get why sales people revel in this. Then there is the messiness of the buyers trying to organize themselves to buy and figure out what they want to do. We know there is high buyer remorse. Be Aware Of… Problem Focused Growth "Tell Us Your Top Business Challenge" The Bar Is Being Raised For Both Buyer And Seller.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I get why sales people revel in this. Then there is the messiness of the buyers trying to organize themselves to buy and figure out what they want to do. We know there is high buyer remorse. Be Aware Of… Problem Focused Growth "Tell Us Your Top Business Challenge" The Bar Is Being Raised For Both Buyer And Seller

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Igniting Sales Transformation

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Given the expense of these meetings, it is a huge miss to waste time on anything that does not directly impact a salesperson’s ability to sell more effectively to today’s modern buyer. Buyer expectations keep rising. The surprising thing is that this is NOT a new revelation. Compete with buyer status quo?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I think, “Why do we revel in achieving our quotas and scaling goals, when we could be doing so much more?” Yet most buyers are not engaging sellers until they are 85% or more through their buying journey! I’m constantly amazed as I look at performance of organizations. We are underperforming the potential.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 30, 2022

They revel in their accomplishment. Buying/Selling Vs Buyer/Seller Deciding What To Buy Is Often The Easiest Part Top Performers Do More Of This. They realize selling is one of the most challenging jobs in business. Things are always changing, each situation is different. They have to continually learn and adapt.

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Buyers are practiced too, they can see when it is real, and when it’s shtick, even when it’s good pundit shtick. Watch effective sales people conduct a sales interview, and what you’ll see is that they not only talk less, but revel in the silence. It’s not just the listening, it’s what you do with it.

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Mereo

JANUARY 4, 2023

Questions pave the way for insights, revelations and relationship-building. Are your salespeople asking discovery questions that will elicit information so they can configure your solution to the buyer’s specifics? What questions can your salespeople ask to uncover fundamental problems holding your buyers back from success?

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Allego

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Bauders recognized a consistently growing skills gap in sales forces’ ability to navigate evolving buyer practices in today’s disruptive digital economy: core selling skills, negotiation skills, financial acumen, strategic client-relationship building, and emotional intelligence. That, to me, has been a revelation.”.

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Corporate Visions

JUNE 19, 2019

Challenging buyers to disrupt their status quo, change, and choose you. Salespeople engage in disruptive two-way conversations with customers, provoking buyers to move away from their status quo approach and choose your solution. The buyer psychology is different, so your stories and skills need to be different.

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Score More Sales

JULY 26, 2013

Buyers have changed. Sometimes a very subtle thing can hint to a bigger revelation if you just ask a couple extra questions. They proposed an idea, and the frustrated buyer loved it. (Merriam Webster). Some companies think they know best and do what they do because it always worked before.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 19, 2015

This allows them to be more conversational, more relaxed casual, more themselves, making the whole experience much more engaging for both the buyer and themselves. They see success, revel in it, and take their foot off the gas and their eyes off the ball. The majority however, travel the other path.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2024

That data is at least 10 years old, and based on what we see in most buying cycles is that buyers defer vendor engagement until as late as possible. ” We revel in this strategy. The old Challenger data shows customers typically involve vendors when they are about 60% through their buying process. It simplifies our jobs.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Endless market research proclaiming the “death of selling,” citing changing buyers, new technology as eliminating millions of selling jobs–and there is some validity to the points they make, though I tend to disagree with the conclusions there will be fewer sales jobs in the future (more later). by technology.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2020

There’s no doubt, they have developed products that have captured the hearts and minds of buyers. We revel in their success, we copy and emulate what they do. Current platforms on many “hit parades” include Slack, Zoom, Dropbox, Twilio, and so forth. Those that don’t become carcasses.

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Increase Sales

MAY 19, 2015

This revelation only reaffirmed what I learned from my own personal experiences. Buyers can pick up your internal stress. I know this to be true when speaking to my clients and sales leads who tell me they can tell what type of sales training the salespeople have experienced by the questions they ask.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 19, 2020

I’ve been guilty of this myself, trying to imagine who my buyers might be and what they want to hear — versus letting the data lead my decision making. They know what their buyer looks like… what his or her pain points are… why they’re buying… and other important details about their overall situation.

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eGrabber

JUNE 28, 2021

Sales prospecting is when sales and business development representatives potential buyers or targeted prospects and reach out to them through cold calls or emails. But, one of the biggest revelations is that decision-makers respond instantly to their business emails than personal emails. What is sales prospecting?

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SalesProInsider

JULY 6, 2017

Ho hum, you might be thinking…this is not a big revelation. When you focus on your skills, the actions you take, and the care you put into your sales efforts, buyers will see you as different. A simple formula for creating value statements so you can easily share the right value with your buyers. Selling value.

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Buyers will always place more trust in a salesperson who treats them like a human being, not just a phone number on a lead list. If you remember, Jerry had this revelation in the movie. Here’s what buyers tell me they value: “I felt the salesperson was my advocate. ” How can I discover how my buyers feel?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Some terribly mistaken souls actually revel in this saying, “it really shortens my sales cycle!” The Bar Is Being Raised For Both Buyer And Seller Wake Up! Self education becomes a value alternative to avoid sales people. But along with these statements, too many sales people seem to sigh in resignation, accepting this.

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No More Cold Calling

DECEMBER 29, 2020

” That’s what a client recently asked me, and I was baffled by his revelation. As a result, 44 percent of corporate buyers switched B2B vendors in 2019, and 36 percent planned to do so in 2020, according to Accenture’s November 2019 report, Service Is the New Sales. Your referral network is your net worth in sales.

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Vengreso

DECEMBER 19, 2018

When Buyers Say No by Tom Hopkins and Ben Katt. 1 When Buyers Say No by Tom Hopkins and Ben Katt. It places emphasis on crafting a creative approach to break through to the buyer, instead of the traditional linear route. Pink shares insightful revelations about how to achieve success and breakthroughs with others.

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Vengreso

JANUARY 13, 2023

#DigitalSelling #SocialSelling Click To Tweet Buy the Book Here #3 When Buyers Say No by Tom Hopkins and Ben Katt LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE In this practical “what to do” guide for sellers when they hear the dreaded word “no,” Hopkins and Katt introduce a new sales technique. Click here to see the complete list.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Sadly, I don’t see many “sellers” reveling in this fun or challenge, these days. The closest we come is talking about replacing F2F with virtual calls and revel in the reduction in travel–not whether we are engaging customer more impactfully. first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Salespeople, especially on the enterprise level, need to understand their company, their product, their market, and their buyer exceptionally well. Allowing automation to take over is the key to uncovering revelations like these in the future. AI is predicted to grow a whopping 139% among sales teams in the next three years.

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Sales Evangelist

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Kelly explores the common pitfalls of salespeople and emphasizes the importance of understanding and providing what buyers truly want. Common Mistakes Made by Salespeople Donald highlights the tendencies of salespeople to rely on automated emails and fail to listen to buyers' needs truly. They're looking to be taught.

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Gong.io

JUNE 19, 2018

You’ve just done an amazing demo, so why is your buyer voicing objections? It gave us one of the most shocking revelations yet: Successful and unsuccessful closing calls look the same. Pre-purchase anxiety is common when a B2B buyer makes a large purchase. No worries. It’s a sign they paid attention and are engaged.

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OnePageCRM

APRIL 13, 2017

What emerged was a revelation. If the answers to these questions aren’t at the top of mind, it’s time to re-evaluate your company’s buyer persona. What is a Buyer Persona? Most of us will have heard of the term, ‘buyer persona’, in some context or another. What are data-driven buyer persona?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

That was extraordinary — a revelation for him and a confirmation for us. It works today until buyers get wise to the tactics we’re employing or get numb to every Salesperson saying the same thing. You are still telling the buyer what is best for them rather than facilitating them to determine what is best for their business.

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