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Enable Guided Selling for Sales with CPQ Tools

Cincom Smart Selling

CPQ tools can help. CPQ tools are essential to making this process work efficiently. CPQ Tools and Guided Selling. Almost any sales discussion, regardless of where you are in the buying cycle, seeks to accomplish one thing: matching a need with a solution.

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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. To succeed in the current marketplace, sellers have to use every tool at their disposal to understand their prospects and what drives them.

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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. Many times (particularly during the tire-kicking phase of a real buy cycle or perhaps in a discussion with an existing customer) there will be a request for a ballpark quote. The Ballpark Quote.

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15 CRM Statistics You Need to Know

Pipeline

This shift in the buyer’s behavior pushes businesses to implement a sales tool like CRM into their daily work—helping them put buyer satisfaction above anything else. 77% of sales professionals say their organization plans to invest more in sales intelligence tools—including CRMs. Note: These are only a few benefits of CRM adoption.

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How to Build Value in Sales: Strategies for Success

LeadFuze

Surveys: Online survey tools like SurveyMonkey let you ask all the right questions and get all the juicy details. Social Media Stalking: Tools like Hootsuite let you eavesdrop on your customers’ conversations. Picture this: a regional restaurant chain struggling with construction projects. Huge improvement.

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Content Will Save Us!

Partners in Excellence

Too much of what I read, too many of the conversations I have focus on the miracle of content. “If we only had this…” Or content tied to marketing automation, “We can score and nurture the customer through most of their buying cycle with the right content.” Content will continue to evolve.

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Onboarding Your Sellers for the New B2B Buyer: Rapidly Building Sales Capability

Mindtickle

Constructive feedback from peers and managers. To learn and master these behaviors, your reps require knowledge of the sales process, buyer personas, buying cycles, and industry context combined with proven in-field skills. . Sellers have little opportunity to learn from peers and managers and garner direct feedback.

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