Smooth Sale

MARCH 1, 2022

Digital marketing works wonders for any business that wants to succeed in the 21st century. The better approach includes building a social media presence, creating and taking action on a search engine optimization (SEO) strategy, and much more. Without digital marketing efforts, you cannot put your business in front of these eyes. .

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PandaDoc

MAY 9, 2024

You may be in several markets and have many target audiences. The average deal value affects your ideal sales cycle length. Likewise, you can calculate sales velocity for different teams, products, regions, and markets. This informs coaching strategies and performance. Not every transaction is created equal.

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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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Vengreso

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

There is now no doubt, NO DOUBT that the company I am honored to lead as CEO is the world’s largest digital sales training company. The secrets behind the success of the world’s largest #DigitalSales training company, Vengreso. Why did we focus on flooding the digital sales training space like this?

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 8, 2024

The global economy/turmoil and continued layoffs/reductions, and shuffling of priorities–both within our customers, markets, and within our own organizations. Some data suggest only 3% of customers in our markets are actively looking to change and buy, another 7% could be interested. The bottom line is so EXCITING!

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 23, 2019

Don’t rely on marketing for your leads. Have a marketing plan to remain in touch with those people who aren’t active in the prospecting or buying cycle. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 22, 2024

When I talk to leaders about their GTM strategies, the focus is on products and presenting the capabilities of products. People respond, “They run IT, they manage sales, they design new products, they are marketing people…” But then when I ask, “What’s that mean? Buying cycles reduce by 30-40%!

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Highspot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Discover how mastering virtual sales strategies can elevate customer interactions, even in complex sales cycles. Initially viewed as a cost-effective selling strategy primarily for lower-value accounts, virtual selling has now gained favor for a broader range of opportunities. What Is Virtual Selling?

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Connext Digital

JULY 18, 2019

Email remains a strong driver of marketing mileage. Since the open rate of email is quite high at 46% on mobile, you’re sure that people are made aware of your marketing messages. Email also has a tangible impact on your business, acting as the biggest source of return on investment (ROI) according to 59% of marketers.

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Miller Heiman Group

JULY 18, 2019

So the question becomes, are your numbers the result of sales strategies or is a strong economy propping up your organization’s sales growth? These data-driven assessments can also help you build an ideal candidate profile for job applicants and identify career paths for your existing talent, leading to a more effective talent strategy.

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Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Sales Tips: New Salespeople In-Training? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Is it just me, or are Marketing people starting to behave like salespeople? Whether marketing or salespeople, buyers do not want to be sold. They much prefer to buy.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Much of this is due to the technology that is beginning to drive the sales process much the way it has driven marketing for the past several years. The range of sales tools is becoming as diverse as those on the marketing side. As a result, buying teams are finding it harder to reach a consensus and buying decision.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some tools become permanent fixtures in marketing strategies, while others fizzle out just as quickly as they enter the scene. But, if there’s one trend that signals what the future of marketing will look like – it’s the rise of virtual and augmented reality. Sales of VR and AR devices will reach $1.8 billion in 2018 ( source ).

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Connext Digital

JULY 18, 2019

Email remains a strong driver of marketing mileage. Since the open rate of email is quite high at 46% on mobile, you’re sure that people are made aware of your marketing messages. . Email also has a tangible impact on your business, acting as the biggest source of return on investment (ROI) according to 59% of marketers.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 30, 2023

AI recognizes facial impressions and drives emotion-based decisions The market size for facial recognition software was valued at USD 4.35 AI will drastically reduce time wasted on low-value tasks so people can spend more time authentically engaging with customers and prospects.” — Steve Watt , director of market insights at Seismic 3.

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SalesLoft

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Sales engagement software is uniquely positioned to drive organizational success, particularly for teams closing deals through a combination of pipeline generation, account-based strategies, and opportunity management. How Does Sales Engagement Work With Marketing Automation and Your CRM? Learn more. Learn more.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 26, 2014

94% of digital marketing professionals surveyed agreed that personalization is “critical to current and future success” according to an eConsultancy study. By applying science and metrics to your client and prospect buying cycle, you can impact connection and real support to help them. But where to start?

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Allego

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Equipping sales teams with the content, skills training, knowledge, coaching, and tools to effectively sell your product or service is essential to survive and, hopefully, grow. This means organizations must take a second look at how they onboard, train, develop, and coach sellers. Adapting to the Next Normal.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. Is ABM the Holy Grail for lead generation or just another black box solution destined to cost a lot of money, distract marketing and end up getting more bad leads to sales faster than ever before?

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 18, 2014

With the rise of more committees, there are more people involved in making buying decisions, sellers are engaged later in the buying cycle, and, increasingly a lot of the selling is going on when you not there. As a matter of fact in today’s market, you are not there most of the time. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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SBI

JULY 26, 2018

Nurture opportunities via integrations with marketing automation for customer top-of-mind. Capture leads at trade shows and events with integrated badge and business card scanning and send them instantly to CRM and marketing automation. Automatic updates to CRM via integration to save time.

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Emissary

MARCH 2, 2023

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. An uncertain economy and changing professional landscape have only exacerbated the situation.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 26, 2019

If I look at much of the prospecting email or calls I receive, clearly the marketing and sales enablement people have read the same books–they are trying to engage me with insight. As an example, recently I worked with a team that had been trained to deliver insight. I don’t think anyone would argue, insight is important.

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SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Marketing Team: Deep involvement with creating cadences using persona-specific content. Your Content Strategy. Engaging, relevant content will foster a dialogue at each stage of the buying cycle. Ensuring your messaging and content are up to date and reflect your go-to-market strategy.

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Mindtickle

JUNE 15, 2023

Last week’s Forrester B2B Summit in Austin, Texas brought together revenue leaders, Forrester analysts, and rev-tech vendors to share their insights and strategies for revenue excellence. Revenue leaders and managers recognize the value of training coaches to be effective mentors.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MARCH 8, 2017

Email marketing providers take the quality of your contact lists seriously. Bounce Rates – ISPs require email marketing providers to enforce certain bounce rate thresholds. It’s been around the block and has been mined by other sales and marketing teams looking for leads. Where are your leads in the buying cycle?

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Sales Training Article: Coordinating Silos By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation of the IIWII articles series; read last week's article here. VP Marketing. VP Marketing. Sales is the customer of Marketing.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 19, 2020

For example, as sales people, we may look at territory or account management, prospecting, managing opportunities through the buying cycle, call planning/meeting management, pipeline management/forecasting, administrative functions, time management, training/learning and so forth. How are you spending your time?

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Customer Centric Selling

JULY 3, 2013

Sales Training Article: Where''s All This Buying? This lack of revenue growth flies in the face of technology-assisted B2B buying activity as people leverage the Internet and social networking to research offerings on their own. It begs the question: With all this buying activity, where’s the revenue?

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Mereo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

When B2B leadership has spent months doing their due diligence to develop a solution that has (1) a market and (2) a compelling business case, they are just half-way done before they can go to market. Your sales and marketing teams are conditioned to sell to your current buyers as they have in the past. Solution Education.

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Anthony Cole Training

JULY 28, 2010

Four ‘Have To’ Strategies for Closing Sales. Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! Leadership Training (2). sales management training (4). Sales Strategies (28). Sales Strategy (29). Sales Training (5). training sales (25). Tonys Top Ten.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2018

What does the buying cycle look like for legal operations? Where do they research and get buying advice? … This role also serves as the proxy of the General Counsel in meetings, and as such, is privy to the strategy, and the roadmap of the company. Huppert explains: What are the mandates and pain points of this role?

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Sales Training Connection

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Because of the foundational nature of this idea, it is always a good idea to pay attention when someone adds new insight about how customers buy. In a McKinsey article asked a fundamental question – Is the buying cycle linear? Their short answer was – No. Stop assuming the present can be predicted from the past.

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SBI

JANUARY 29, 2019

The other 63% of time is spent on various, non-revenue-driving activities, such as searching for content, creating content, taking trainings, completing manual administrative tasks, and more. Marketing Content ROI. A recent CMI survey revealed that businesses typically spend about 40% of their marketing budget on content.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

This week I interview Ian Levine , Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of RO Innovation. Ian: Today’s B2B buyers trust the opinions and advice of their peers above that of any salesperson or marketer. RO Innovation’s platform changes the game by: Activating customer advocacy end-to end in sales cycles.

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Miller Heiman Group

OCTOBER 28, 2019

By this late stage in the buying cycle, it’s difficult for sellers to present new ideas or open buyers’ minds to alternative solutions. That is, unless their organization adopts a sales methodology designed to improve sellers’ conversational skills into its enterprise sales strategy. Sellers have access to effective content.

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Mindtickle

MAY 2, 2023

Whether it’s creating it, training reps on it, monitoring its performance, or updating it, simplifying sales content management lets sales enablement leaders focus on other programs that help sellers actually sell. As a sales enablement leader, sales content is a big part of your job.

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