Increase Sales

JULY 7, 2013

The travel heavy sales and marketing practice originates from the product or sales based marketing approach. Today’s buyers are far more receptive to education based marketing. Possibly the most dangerous aspect of traveling heavy with all the marketing stuff to your next sales presentation is this one word Ego.

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Travel Education Case Study Influencer 131

Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 5, 2023

Freedom comes from travelling light. Your travelling light could be doing something you really want to do with zero guilt or giving yourself unadulterated permission to do something you feel others want you to do, instead. So what are the learnings I’ve learned from 2022 that I can share with you? You will love it!

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Travel Networking Exercises Buyer 221

Hubspot Sales

MARCH 30, 2021

Ease of scheduling, savings on travel expenses, and safety (obviously). Not only do buyers now prefer remote sales interactions, but they're also more than happy to make large purchases online — a trend that has sellers embracing and investing heavily in digital sales and prospecting to keep up.

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Intent Data Buyer Intent Intent Top of Funnel 103

No More Cold Calling

APRIL 26, 2021

In 2020 and at least the first half of 2021, business travel and indoor socializing have been challenging and at times, impossible. How do I really get to know my buyers if we can’t meet for coffee, a beer or a round of golf?”. Business buyers seem to feel the same way, so they’re not shopping around much for new vendors.

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Sales Meeting Meeting Referrals Face-to-face 287

Bernadette McClelland

AUGUST 1, 2022

He shared how he is new to the country and now that his job takes him out on the road with a lot of travelling, he’d be looking for a reliable tyre supplier in the future he could trust. He acknowledged how it would cut into the guys personal time by five minutes but he would be super appreciative. I’ll leave that up to you ??.

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Margin Travel Outbound Sales Leadership 397

Mereo

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

B2B virtual selling has become so commonplace and necessary today that we often forget about the benefits of meeting with a buyer in-person in the flesh and blood. The tools have kept salespeople and buyers connected, while slashing buyers’ costs for travel. Remember the handshake? Zoom fatigue.” Social isolation.

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Buyer Meeting Face-to-face Travel 41

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years. Scott McCartney, who covers air travel for The Wall Street Journal, worked with three airline industry analysts to determine the long-term impact of COVID-19 on business travel. Trends that are here to stay.

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Outsourcing Services Face-to-face Travel Lead Rank 279

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

There was actually one point where they talked about have to traverse a winding mountain side road, but again the focus was not the means of travel, but the experience and life changing experiences and memories. All good, all accurate, and for the most part miss speaking to the buyer’s journey.

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Travel Margin Buyer Exercises 253

Vengreso

JUNE 12, 2023

These barriers hurt the long-term success of sales teams because of one truth: the modern buyer has changed their decision-making process. The modern buyer has a longer journey that involves more decision-makers. Consequently, they still use traditional sales techniques to reach the modern buyer.

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Ideal Customer Profile Decision Maker Travel Social Media 122

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The flowering of virtual sales channels and tools flies in the face of four myths, as documented by Bain & Company’s recent survey, conducted with Dynata, of more than 300 B2B buyers and sellers in the US, UK and Canada. Virtual channels can raise productivity and lower selling costs, due to less time and expense for travel.

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Lead Rank Quota Face-to-face Hiring 339

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Focus on delivering the three things buyers value most?–?speed, Optimize your e-commerce channel to give buyers ease and convenience, and make sure all your sales channels are integrated and incented to collaborate with each other. Group travel is down, but not out. speed, transparency and expertise?–?from Are you digital-ready?

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Face-to-face Lead Rank Decision Maker Pivotal 156

Mereo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Now I want to shed some light on another anomaly as the result of this fluid selling environment: buyer budgets and prolonged sales cycles. Personally I have never seen buyer budgets in this much disarray in the now 2.5 Making Sense of the Buyer Budget Disruption. Your buyers’ budgets and buying cycles. SEEK TO SERVE.

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Buyer Lead Rank Lead Scoring Sales Cycle 41

Emissary

JUNE 6, 2022

In this Buyer’s Seat we are going to take a vertical focus and take a closer look at the travel & hospitality industry – specifically aviation (airlines, airports and those in that supply chain). Of course travel and hospitality was crushed during the pandemic. Emissary regularly hosts The Buyer’s Seat.

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Airlines Trends Travel B2B 52

Pipeliner

MARCH 8, 2019

A sales process is “a set of repeatable steps that a salesperson takes to take a prospective buyer from the early stage of awareness to a closed sale,” according to one definition. There is high likelihood that target buyer needs cannot be supported with the template process. • Maybe there’s a reason. Well stated.

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Travel Sales Process Hiring Guidelines 71

SBI Growth

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Is it working its through your organization, from R&D, to Product, getting feedback from Marketing and Sales and gaining fans and momentum as it travels? Has your company got a new product in development? Perhaps it’s been described, prototyped, or.

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Travel Company Marketing Channels 174

The Pipeline

JUNE 9, 2020

Sales to Economic buyer; C-suite to C-suite; ops to ops; finally finance to finance. but who you travel with? Specifically, who the legs pf the stool or your dance partners should be. In the prior piece, the counterparts were a bit more predictable, one can say traditional.

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Pivotal Hiring Face-to-face Distribution 354

Partners in Excellence

MAY 7, 2013

He was the CEO of a large company, he’d been traveling in the field, visiting customers and sales people. They care about the value they get, buyer value is what’s important to them. ” But we get nothing unless the buyer gets superior value from our solution and chooses it. .”

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Buyer Buyer Persona Buying Cycle Travel 107

Emissary

JANUARY 31, 2023

According to Gartner research, buyers facing moderate to high environmental uncertainty are 30% less likely to complete a purchase. But you can still conquer a slow market by taking a strategic approach to grow existing accounts. That’s a challenging environment for sales teams.

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Account Decision Maker Face-to-face How To 96

No More Cold Calling

JUNE 8, 2017

So, I asked many questions to assess how often they traveled, and if travel was for business or with family. This is a lot tougher today, because buyers are already suffering from information overload. Their Harvard Business Review article, “ The New Sales Imperative ,” summarizes a recent study of more than 600 B2B buyers.

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Account Travel Cold Calling Buyer 201

The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

When it comes to selling it is not a question of right or wrong, but ensuring the seller and buyer are talking about the same thing, otherwise we sellers, may be introducing unnecessary risk into our sales. Buyer may be uncertain about a number of things related to their purchase, which impacts the level of risk they perceive.

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Vendor Buyer Travel Objections 272

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan In today’s buyer-centric world, salespeople need to create value more than ever or they won’t get in front of prospects. The points can be redeemed for merchandise, travel, gift cards and other rewards. In many channel partner training programs, sellers earn points for completing on-demand training sessions.

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Channels Incentives Incentive Travel 136

The Pipeline

MARCH 12, 2019

To create genuine conversation, you first need to disrupt the path the buyer is on when you initially prospect them, and right through the cycle. That works with ready buyers, 10% of the buying population. It is about the road they see themselves travelling. or whatever the 21st-century millennial version in use.

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Travel Buyer Trends Relationals 229

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Traditional sales incentive programs reward participants with merchandise, travel or something else (preferably not cash) for achieving a goal. As technology continues to advance, the products and services salespeople are selling are getting increasingly complex, as are the channels they sell through and buyers they sell to.

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Incentives Incentive Training Channels 295

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It is not uncommon for sales reps to travel around the world to win prospects with face-to-face meetings. Many buyers are facing new and complex challenges. Companies in travel, retail, and nonprofits are just some examples of those faced with a substantial drop in revenue. B2B Sales Operations Are Changing for Good.

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Small Business Small Business Lead Rank Sales Qualified Lead 317

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 25, 2020

Yet just as companies have gained new insights about their work-from-home capabilities, they may also have a vastly different concept of what business travel makes sense and which meetings and conferences are too important to miss.

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Meeting Face-to-face Travel Conference 156

The Pipeline

AUGUST 27, 2019

Consider travel, time understanding the clients and market, generating leads, and more. 23% would mean over two hours a day in front of buyers; let me know when you do that consistently, and we’ll talk. Buyers know that sellers will trade time for cash. Let’s look at a better measure, what value sellers attach to their own time.

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Wireless Discount Face-to-face Scale 264

Steven Rosen

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Virtual selling is more challenging as you lose the value of proximity and the ability to read the buyer’s body language. . In fact, with salespeople facing such uncertainty and sales managers not having to travel, they have increased the time they spend coaching. How can you help your salespeople excel at virtual selling?

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Coaching Face-to-face Selling Skills Call-back 282

The Pipeline

JANUARY 14, 2020

In 2016, approximately 854,000 Canadian car commuters spent at least 60 minutes traveling to work. Assuming your target buyer was one of these commuters, what are they thinking about while in routine traffic? Many sellers only deal with buyers already in Decision mode. Let’s borrow descriptions from marketing to simplify.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Objections 250

PandaDoc

MARCH 1, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions require buyers and sellers alike to enter in a vast amount of confidential company data. A VDR simplifies the due diligence process, as potential buyers have a centralized, online hub to assess financial, legal, and operational data to uncover risks that could impact the success of the M&A transaction.

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Data How To Government Buyer 52

SBI Growth

MAY 19, 2013

Confirm they are leveraging your buyer personas when selecting. Now let’s assume your buyers are all over Facebook, this is where they digitally hang out. Consider these 2 scenarios (travel plans or tractor purchase) when determining time/frequency. Travel plans, you can’t avoid to be patient. Purchasing a large tractor.

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Buyer Persona Vendor Marketing Travel 297

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The very moment deal-seekers everywhere shoot their shot, turn prospects into buyers, and score buzzer-beating slam dunks that accelerate the business to record-breaking sales. Q4 is generally the biggest sales quarter of the year due to two major factors: buyer behavior and budgets. It’s here, the biggest sales quarter of the year.

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Data Discount How To Quota 117

InsideSales.com

JULY 15, 2020

Summer can be the worst time for sales—sellers aren’t selling, buyers aren’t buying, signatories are often absent. You name it: Summer vacation, kids’ activities, traveling to see grandparents, spending time on the lake, the golf course, etc. . Time traveler: “What year is it?”. Time traveler: “Oh boy.”. Travel risky.

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Tourism Travel Hotels Forecasting 84

SalesProInsider

MAY 26, 2022

Have you ever considered how the “language” and “customs” of your buyers affects what they need to make a confident decision to move forward with working together? My last stop for this implementation was Italy where I discussed my observations from the travels with a man named Stefano. Tribal Types and Buying Customs.

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Customer Travel Buyer Conversion 62

Gong.io

APRIL 22, 2022

Once you start talking about yourself/your company and how amazing you are, your buyer tunes out. Leads by making the email about the buyer, NOT Gong and NOT Revenue Intelligence (the product). “Go Hmmm … well … this is part of Evan’s LinkedIn bio: “In my spare time I enjoy traveling, snowboarding, and mountain biking.”

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Examples Ideal Customer Profile Travel LinkedIn 125

MTD Sales Training

MAY 28, 2019

Most buyers we speak to don’t have much time for salespeople. The reason is they still think of them as being slick-talking, time-draining, pressure-inducing parasites who are trying to rip buyers off and get as much profit as possible. How can we regain control of this impression that many buyers have of us as unprofessional leeches?

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Customer Face-to-face How To Travel 219

Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

When events began going online last spring, we didn’t immediately jump onto the bandwagon – but as the months progressed, we saw that buyers were looking for connections and advice and virtual events were filling the gap. In 2019, conferences and tradeshows represented a significant percentage of our lead generation outcomes.

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Webinar Metrics Lead Rank Marketing Qualified Lead Cancellation 177

No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 10, 2013

It’s been said that buyers already know everything they need to know about your company and your products and solutions before they ever speak to a salesperson. This suggests that buyers don’t really need us anymore—that sales has become so automated, and that salespeople are irrelevant. Travel takes more than money.

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Travel Hotels Fashion Buyer 247