SBI Growth

JULY 21, 2013

Sales forces lack buyer-centered tools for success. Sales field alignment with the modern day buyer requires more than lip service. This blog is focused on the transformation of Sales to incorporate buyer-centered tools. Download 8 Strategic Imperatives of Buyer-Centric Selling.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Download the tool to learn how to implement each and enable your sales team. The Tablet: Do you provide content that addresses your buyer’s market problems? Or is your buyer reading someone else’s content on their tablet? CRM: Did you spend a lot of money on what amounts to a forecasting tool?

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Showpad

OCTOBER 17, 2018

What do buyers really want? Creating better buyer experiences was the theme of “the Future of Sales Enablement,” the Wednesday session at Showtime18 , Europe’s largest sales enablement conference taking place in Ghent. Some of the findings were shocking — Over 50 percent of buyers in both Europe and the U.S.

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SBI

MARCH 19, 2013

Of course, my retort is that you won’t increase sales if you don’t have the right tools to compete more efficiently and effectively. They would ask, “What good is a prospect research tool if reps don’t know how to get a decision maker to engage?” Prioritize activities based on prospect behavior.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 22, 2018

Know "who" your buyer is. If you really want to nail your buyer-focused messaging, create a buyer's matrix by listing out important factors about your buyers, including typical business objectives, external challenges, strategic initiatives, and internal issues. Different buyers prefer different communication methods.

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Highspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Forrester emphasizes that successful B2B growth hinges on three core principles : a deep understanding of business buyers and their needs, aligning marketing, product, and sales around buyer value, and using technology-driven innovations to amplify this value. With technological advancement comes increased buyer sophistication.

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Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 30, 2024

Salespeople say that a change in the sales field that has had the biggest impact on their role is that selling has become more focused on presenting a solution than pitching a product or service. Because of their self-led research, salespeople say buyers enter conversations with them more informed than ever. Why the change?

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

On the other hand, depending on which experts you listen to, sales success boils down to how effective one is with either Inbound, Social Selling, Consultative Selling, Qualifying, Value Selling, Solution Selling, Relationship Selling, acceptance of the Buyer Journey, Sales Process, Sales Methodology, Prospecting, Telesales, Reaching Decision Makers, (..)

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 23, 2013

The problem with a regular sales process is that it is misaligned with the buyer. Today’s informed buyer is through 57% of the buyer’s journey before reaching out to your team. The buyer does not think this way. You end up frustrating the buyer. The buyer is further down the process and has evolved.

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Mindtickle

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But in today’s world, product-based selling will no longer cut it. Modern buyers are more informed than ever and often do plenty of research on their own before contacting a seller. These buyers also have high expectations for great experiences throughout the purchase journey.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 15, 2013

Spin Selling” and “Solution Selling” are methodologies. Check this post for best-in-class guidance: Further, successful sales process implementations have to be based on buyer behavior. Conducting great research into how and why your buyer’s purchase is essential. The tools are useful and are helping them sell.

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Mindtickle

MARCH 1, 2024

During the discovery phase, sellers aim to learn as much as they can about a prospective buyer. This gives sellers plenty of time to build trust with buyers. When a buyer trusts a seller, they’re more likely to renew. What are the best enterprise sales tools? You also need the right tools to manage these factors.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 18, 2015

One article was written by a sales expert discussing the concept of following the buyer's purchasing process. OK, that's still a sales process and it has some validity if you have weak salespeople that sell to large companies where you can't impact or change anything relative to how they buy. But the key word here is tools.

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Miller Heiman Group

MAY 1, 2019

Turning a data repository into a tool that helps you win more deals. Oftentimes, sellers see CRMs as data repositories that helps them report progress to executives, not as a tool that helps prioritize deals. Are they providing value and perspective to their buyers? Sellers need to inspire their buyers.

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Gong.io

JULY 18, 2022

How can you position your solution and boost your win rates? That’s where Solution Selling comes in. In this article, we’ll explain what Solution Selling is, what sets it apart, and how to tell if it’s right for your team. What is Solution Selling? What sets the Solution Selling methodology apart?

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Their sales folks are still using a product selling approach, when today’s buyer has significantly changed and could care less about your latest version and what’s new in it. Our buying behavior as consumers has influenced our buying behavior as b2b buyers. There’s no excuse for making a bad decision.

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Emissary

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Develop a better understanding of technology buyers and what they want. Selling tech to individual consumers can be a challenge but selling tech in the B2B world is more complex. Per Gartner , B2B sellers need to understand three characteristics of B2B buyers. First, the B2B tech buyer is not a single person.

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Highspot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Today’s B2B buyers are savvier, more informed, and have access to several options at their fingertips. What makes it more complicated is that 90% of buyers don’t follow a linear sales funnel path , leaving sales reps little to no room for mistakes. Gone are the days of cold calls and one-size-fits-all pitches.

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Tony Hughes

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Strategic selling is fundamentally defined by the seller targeting the buyer and proactively engaging to create value and set the agenda. LinkedIn is the database-of-record from heaven for those who want to sell like hell. And Sales Navigator from LinkedIn is a massively powerful tool for both marketing and sales.

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Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 5, 2018

Instead of providing solutions to buyers’ needs, the Challenger Sale model advises sales reps to aggressively take control of the conversation and embrace friction as a strategy to win sales. But is the Challenger Sale model really the best way to convert buyers into valued, long-term customers? We don’t think so.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 9, 2023

When your reps follow this thread, they know exactly what to say and when to say it, what buyers are thinking at different times and how to build better relationships. These frameworks can and should scale depending on new training materials, shifting buyer expectations and what you learn in the ever-changing world of sales.

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Miller Heiman Group

AUGUST 6, 2018

Instead of providing solutions to buyers’ needs, the Challenger Sale model advises sales reps to aggressively take control of the conversation and embrace friction as a strategy to win sales. But is the Challenger Sale model really the best way to convert buyers into valued, long-term customers? We don’t think so.

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Lead Rank Sales Methodology Analytics Solutions Selling 55

Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 23, 2022

Could you please share with us a few of your favorite social selling tools? . It’s probably not what you’re looking for, but my primary tools are simply LinkedIn, ContactOut, and Excel. But I have reviewed some very interesting online tools for sales pros. I used to help teach Solution Selling at an ERP software company.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 12, 2012

It will get you the access to the tool you need to begin developing the proper training, our prospect/customer interview guide. John is the Economic Buyer of our product. Flips the product from the “Sales” perspective to the “Buyer” perspective. This interview was with Tucker, the User Buyer. It is also wrong.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Plus, the sales plan outlines the action plan, tools, and resources that will be used to hit these targets. Targets are defined, and sales management calculates how much their department, teams, and individual salespeople need to sell to meet the overarching goal. Tools and Resources. Marketing Tools. Sales Tools.

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SBI

MAY 14, 2013

Buyers often need help understanding available options for solving their business challenges as well as what they should consider when talking with potential solution providers. Are you unwittingly provoking buyers to look elsewhere (or to give up altogether)? You need to dumb it down because buyers are risk-averse.

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Highspot

JUNE 22, 2021

There are many ways to approach sales, but the most common methods can be summarized as transactional selling, solution selling, consultative selling, and provocative selling. Yet many sellers still approach deals under the assumption that buyers are primed and ready to purchase. Buyers need a reason to buy.

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LeveragePoint

APRIL 12, 2019

The tectonic plates have shifted between buyer and seller: Skilled sales teams are no longer necessary to provide product or solution information, except when online marketing content is inadequate. If answering product questions is all that buyers require, sales teams are destined to become help desks.

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Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Today’s buyers expect their sellers to step up and provide thought leadership, perspective and insights to solve problems and make purchasing decisions. Unfortunately, this kind of sales capability is not increasing sufficiently to meet buyer need. 4) Leverage digital enablement tools to expand selling time.

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Sell Integrity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Value is not about understanding the history of their firm, getting descriptions of the solutions being proposed, or reviewing case studies and testimonials. And we all know that buyers are further along in the buying process and spending less time with the salesperson than ever before. The Right Process. The Right Commitment.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 11, 2019

Conceptual Selling. Consultative Selling. Customer-Centric Selling. Inbound Selling. NEAT Selling. SNAP Selling. Solution Selling. SPIN Selling. Target Account Selling. The Sandler Selling Method. Value Selling. Conceptual Selling. Consultative Selling.

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Mindtickle

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But at the end of the day, a sales playbook is a great resource for engaging any buyer at any point in the sales cycle. A sales playbook is a powerful tool. After all, they’re the ones in the field interacting with buyers all day. Based on your research, map the sales process – both from a buyer’s and a seller’s perspective.

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Showpad

JUNE 24, 2019

Every sale is challenging in its own way, but selling into an enterprise, the golden egg for B2B organizations, can be especially difficult to navigate. These customers bring in significantly more revenue, but the buyer journey and experience have their own nuances. Selling an enterprise solution that scales.

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Vengreso

APRIL 10, 2022

That is why we created THE sales methodology that will explode your team’s sales pipeline if followed each time your sellers try to create engagement with their buyers. SPIN Selling. Solution Selling. Miller Heiman’s Conceptual Selling. Miller Heiman’s Strategic Selling. The Challenger Sale.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

With marketers who seem more focused on gaming the channels themselves than in the value of the dialogue being created, buyers are now inundated with more product related and meaningless offers than ever. As a result, buyers now suffer from Information Overload. For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Sandler Selling System, one of the most enduring sales methodologies, is driven by customer purchasing behaviors rather than equations and procedures. When done properly, the buyer seriously thinks they are pursuing the bargain, which results in a less overbearing, non-salesy engagement. 6 Solution Selling.

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