Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Begin Buying Cycles with Pain vs. Goals. One of the fundamental concepts of CustomerCentric Selling® is that buying cycles begin when Key Players share goals or admit problems they’re willing to spend money to achieve or address.

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Openview

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Want more information on how Millenials are impacting the buying cycle? The post How Millennials Impact the Buying Cycle: What You Need to Know and How to Adapt appeared first on OpenView Labs. You must look for signals of intent to engage when they are ready and have captivated their attention.

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SBI

JULY 17, 2012

And that, all too often, is at the end of the buying cycle. You can win even when prospects engage with you late in the buying process if you play by these rules. When salespeople are invited to a discussion late in the buying cycle, rest assured that the prospect has already formed opinions shaped by what they’ve read or seen.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2015

Buyers Get Smarter Through The Buying Cycle. Buyers get smarter through their buying cycle. By the way, be sure to buy Andy’s latest book, AMP Up Your Sales. Andy Paul and I exchanged emails on my post The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle And Selling. He had written a similar post [See Here].

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Customer Centric Selling

AUGUST 7, 2013

Sales Training Article: The Foundation of Buying Cycles. As a practical matter it means buying cycles do not begin until a buyer has shared a goal (or a problem) they are willing to spend money to achieve (or address). Does this mean a buying cycle has begun? Buyer: Potential sales are lost?

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Too often, sellers catch customers who are very late in their buying cycle. And the buying cycles are shorter! ” The wandering buying process our customers undertake because they don’t know how to buy. One of the things he discusses in the concept of “Selling Possibility.”

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

But if managers were to actually use these tools, they would learn that sales cycles are much longer than many pretend, all while buying cycles are running much longer than buyers themselves expected when they started their buying cycle. More importantly how long the buying cycle is.

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Customer Centric Selling

APRIL 24, 2013

Sales Training Article: Agreed Upon Buying Cycles By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company As mentioned in my last blog article , “no decision” is a common outcome of buying cycles that sellers participate in. Delays are potential red flags.

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Customer Centric Selling

MARCH 20, 2013

Sales Training Article: Electronic Starts to Buying Cycles By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation from last week's article , as part of the IIWII ("It Is What It Is") series. Need some help with your sales performance?

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Membrain

OCTOBER 17, 2021

We struggle to get in front of customers, to find opportunities, to nurture them through the buying cycle, and, ultimately, to win. Yet, the majority of those complex buying opportunities end in “No Decision Made.”.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 7, 2019

Buying cycles have expanded more than measurably. Other sources confirm this trend in lengthening buy cycles. The big change, is as you would expect, is driven by buyer behaviour, and since the buyer pays the commissions, it is important that we adjust our calculations and actions.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 16, 2014

Sales enablement alignment to the customers buying cycle is required. Misalignment can result in missing the buying cycle completely. A poor launch will waste R & D dollars. Lack of sales enablement will cause you to miss the number. CMO Resources CMO New Product Sales Enablement Sales Readiness'

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2015

It’s that time of year again, there are lots of posts around the popular research that indicates, “Customers aren’t engaging sales until they are, 57, 70, 90 (depending on the research you read) through their buying cycle.” As a result, the sales professional is key in helping customer initiate the buying cycle.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Teaser: If you believe the hype around studies that say customers feel they are through 60 percent (or more) of the buying cycle before engaging a salesperson, you could be giving your salespeople the wrong content for the wrong conversation. Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Corporate Visions, Inc.

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Allego

JULY 20, 2021

Balancing Selling and Buying Cycles: What Good Selling Is. Good selling, of course, is grounded in creating an exceptional buying experience. They tend to focus on the selling cycle versus the buying cycle. But the selling cycle, of course, is all about you and your timeline. Learn More.

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The Pipeline

JULY 6, 2021

One way to help buyers and you, is to leverage cycles, while changing the buyer’s and your own habits throughout the buying cycle. Breaking habits, breaks cycles and predictability. This regularity leads to people developing habits in response, action – reaction.

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The Pipeline

MAY 28, 2019

“How much time is this buy going to suck out of my life and days over the next three months?” Studies show that buyers are finding that the buying cycle is taking twice as long as they anticipated. Which means they will have allocated a certain amount of time to buying.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 4, 2023

Guests : Brooke Freedman – Account Executive Manager at Drift. Katie Miles – Account Executive at Outreach.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 14, 2017

There are several advantages of making proactive attempts to start buying cycles: You can start at levels that have the authority to create budget. If there’s little chance of a buying decision, buyers won’t waste their (or your) time. This approach aligns with the way senior executives want to buy. Be Proactive.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

How to respond to buying signals. Accessing a visitor’s intent data helps marketing understand where B2B decision-makers are in the buying cycle. Related: How Business Search Behavior has Shifted During the Coronavirus. Consider this. That’s the name of the game for 2021. Do you have the tools you need to get on board?

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Teaser: There are three value conversation “moments of truth” in every buying cycle that you must excel at. But they are also integrated in a way that a salesperson must master in order to move seamlessly between them as the customer buying cycle dictates. read more

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The Pipeline

DECEMBER 18, 2018

But in how many times have they actually done this, this case how many times have they gone through a buying cycle? The average B2B rep may do 10, 20 30, more deals a year, meaning that they will have initiated and gone through some portion of a sales cycle, two, three or four times their deal number.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Teaser: By the time a customer engages a salesperson, they’re 60 percent of the way through their buying cycle and have done most of their research online. By the time a customer engages a salesperson, they’re 60 percent of the way through their buying cycle and have done most of their research online.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 25, 2013

Instead, their buyer was engaging with sales later in their buying cycle. The frontline of the buying cycle is research and information gathering. In 2011, the Sales Executive Council reported the average B2B buyer engaged with a vendor 57% of the way through their buying cycle. The reason was simple.

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SalesforLife

MARCH 30, 2019

Today’s modern buyer is drastically different than buyers of the past, and the buying cycle has also changed significantly. Turning potential prospects into customers is no longer easy for salespeople. The modern buyer is being transformed. What can salespeople do to adapt to these changing times?

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Pointclear

AUGUST 16, 2018

Often hot leads are really buying companies that have already been sold by another vendor. They’ve indicated they have a short buying cycle and they’re eager to talk, but what these buyers may be doing is validating a decision already made. Leads at every stage of the buying cycle are essential for a healthy pipeline.

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

These markets have natural buying cycles. Sometimes they are because of product life cycle, or evolving technology. Also, today’s Buyer is likely to resent your efforts to “push” them into buying. It lets the prospect’s natural buying cycle work for you instead of against you. You kiss a lot of pigs.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 27, 2019

Predicting consumer trends for goods with short buying cycles. Being in the know about consumer trends is a responsibility for both sales and marketing professionals - especially for consumer goods with short buying cycles.

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Close.io

AUGUST 6, 2018

Enterprises typically have very long buying cycles. Understand the buying cycle of the enterprise you're selling into. Have a clear vision of their buying journey. It's a mistake because more often than not, they haven't told you their whole buying cycle yet. Sounds good!". Why is that a mistake?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 17, 2023

This is called having a Supportive Buy Cycle and while 64% of the top salespeople in the world have it, only 10% of the bottom half of all salespeople and 1% of the bottom 10% have it as a strength. Closed in ten minutes.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 23, 2019

Have a marketing plan to remain in touch with those people who aren’t active in the prospecting or buying cycle. Commit to the customer and their needs, not just on what they sell. Own your prospect’s process. Maintain an optimistic attitude. View prospecting not as an activity, but rather as a lifestyle that you live.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 6, 2017

Customers - Routine 'keep in contact' but not in the buying cycle segment. Prospects - Known, 'keep in contact' but not in the buying cycle segment. CRM segmentation into the following four key target group should be your first order of the day: Customers - Major targets for significant growth opportunities.

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Emissary

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Banks have a reputation for a long buying cycle and can take up to two years or more. Banks in particular noted severe limitations in their legacy core processing systems and rigid architectures. A natural sensitivity to risk has anchored organizations to these outdated elements.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 26, 2018

Anonymous research has become a significant part of the buying cycle today, covering at least 60 percent of the journey. What if you could monitor all influential individuals in your prioritized accounts in real-time, throughout the buying journey? You could educate and influence them with relevant ads and customized, content.

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Zoominfo

JULY 5, 2023

In partnering with ZoomInfo, the company was aiming to align its sales and marketing teams around the same goals and metrics, and to target prospects early in the buying cycle to deliver the most tailored experience possible.

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Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Senior executives are not equally engaged throughout the buying cycle. In general, they are involved early and late and delegate most decisions in middle part of the buying cycle to others. The likely outcome will be a short meeting with a referral to someone lower in the organization.

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