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The “Squishy” Buying Cycle

Partners in Excellence

Our job as sales professionals becomes aligning our selling process with the customer’s buying process, moving through the process in a disciplined manner. I think there is a different view of the buying cycle, one that is more “squishy.” I think this picture represents a lot of what I see in B2B buying cycles.

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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

Covid-19 and subsequent office closures forced every sales team to use virtual channels in situations they never would have considered before the pandemic: complex buying cycles requiring careful orchestration by veteran sellers. Company size has no bearing on the willingness to use virtual channels.

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How automation helps nurture and manage leads

Apptivo

Today, the buying cycle is complex. It’s extremely difficult to encourage leads to go through the sales funnel—from being qualified to becoming prospects and then customers—while keeping track of their engagements and touchpoints across many channels. Thankfully, lead management automation has some built-in magic.

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What is a Sales Engagement Platform? Let’s Debunk Some Myths

SalesLoft

According to G2 , “Sales Engagement software streamlines the sales process through integrations with sales communication channels and tools, management of sales messaging and materials, and automation of tasks, messages, and workflows.“ . These three tools are the foundation of the sales tech stack that will help you increase revenue.

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Virtual Selling: How to Excel and Crush Your Sales Quota

Highspot

Around 80% of buyers and sellers favor digital self-serve and remote human engagement over face-to-face interactions for a seamless buying experience. This trend has gained momentum thanks to the growing influence of online platforms. In turn, businesses have to adapt and innovate in virtual selling.

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5 Ways to Better Leverage Your CRM Data for ABM

SugarCRM

Not only should a strong ABM tool be able to feed actionable insights to the sales rep about account and contact activity, competitive research, and new contacts to engage, but should be able to automate engagement with those prospects. Another way to make the most of your CRM data is to influence your email marketing.

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The 4 People in Your Sales Pipeline You Must Know

Score More Sales

You’re done in by lost sales, missed opportunities, misaligned goals, and “no’s” toward the end of a prospective customer’s long buying cycle. Channel partners, strategic partners and referral partners all can affect revenue in your pipeline. Who are these people? Some are obvious. Your prospect.

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