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Use These 2 Examples To Uncover Prospect Needs

MTD Sales Training

It may sound something like this: “Tom, many businesses in the construction industry have been able to save over 15% in their long-term buying cycles by using our preferred supplier status discounts. Is that something you’d benefit from too?” . This helps you see what is most important to the prospect.

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Emissary’s Sales Intelligence Platform Accelerates Success

Emissary

The average buy cycle is now more than seven months long and involves five to eight (or more) decision makers, most of whom spend only 17% of their time meeting with potential suppliers. Reporting Call transcripts and recordings make it easy to share information among team members and collaborate on constructive sales plans.

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Quote Configurator Answers the Question: How Much Does It Cost?

Cincom Smart Selling

The pricing question can come up at any time during the buy cycle, and it can even come up outside of a buy cycle. It can be a simple, casual request for a ballpark number, a price check to see if there is any point to continuing the discussion or a full-blown request for a quotation and proposal. Formal Proposals.

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15 CRM Statistics You Need to Know

Pipeline

They won’t be reluctant to ignore cold calls, marketing emails, or business proposals if their criteria aren’t met. That said, the services industry ( 32% ), such as real estate , agencies, and construction companies, contribute to the biggest users of CRM by industry, followed by manufacturing and IT businesses (both with 13% share).

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Whale Hunting Part I - The Rate of Decay

Tony Hughes

Don't answer your email, construct an RFP response, work the web leads or build that 55 slide presentation with your NASCAR slide. But who is teaching, don't even compete in an existing buying cycle that has a decay rate. What about the novel idea of triggering the buying cycle yourself?