The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

We offer six specific RevOps strategies that reduce costs and ultimately drive revenue– even if you have limited resources. The RevOps Essentials Before we get into the specific strategies, there are a few prerequisites to making these strategies work. Many of these strategies are built upon insights derived from data analysis.

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LeadFuze

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Let’s delve deeper into this key strategy for sales success. To foster these prospects until they’re ready to buy. A well-executed lead nurturing strategy can supercharge your business growth. It’s about building relationships with potential customers or leads. The objective?

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 18, 2024

I go back to the data on how buying cycles are getting longer, customers are uncertain, they wander, they shift priorities, they struggle with getting alignment, they start, stop, and too often, fail. And, counterintuitively, buying cycles reduce by 30-40% because we are helping them navigate the process efficiently and effectively.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

What is a CRM strategy? Without a strategy, no tool in the world will be right for the job you need to do. So, what is a CRM strategy? A CRM strategy is a plan that your entire company adopts to help increase productivity, efficiency, and profits. How do you Develop a CRM Strategy? CRM Strategies that Work.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 7, 2019

Not taking anything away from that great insight and practice in terms of creating and driving strategy for your teams, one key factor has changed, which may you be the judge, change time horizons for front line reps, and by extension, their managers, and all the calculations this impacts. Buying cycles have expanded more than measurably.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 24, 2019

The problem is, too many sales people don’t have a strategy for managing the opportunity. So many buying cycles fail or take far longer than necessary because sales fails to offer the right leadership. Do You Really Have A Deal Strategy? They wander, start and stop, go backwards, change their minds and priorities.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 23, 2021

Sales organizations are struggling to align their objectives and quotas with their strategy. These variables should be taken in context with other data like customer needs and buying cycles. Building a successful SDR team relies on good strategy, structure, and data.

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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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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2024

The majority of our sales engagement strategies involve us in only the very latest stages of our customers’ buying journeys. The old Challenger data shows customers typically involve vendors when they are about 60% through their buying process. ” We revel in this strategy. It simplifies our jobs.

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Pointclear

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Bob is the founder of Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, a UK firm that engages with B2B companies to improve their sales and marketing strategy and drive revenue. I encourage you to visit and explore the entire post in which Hugh suggests that leaders should adopt these six sales and marketing strategies in 2012: 1.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 28, 2020

These behavior-based buying signals are a goldmine for your sales and marketing teams. What are examples of data-based buying signals. When you consistently identify and interpret B2B buying signals, you create more predictive strategies for both sales and marketing. Here’s a snapshot of buying signals.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Corporate Visions, Inc. 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.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But it sounds impressive, it sounds like one is taking an informed position, but it’s only built to attract likes, views, comments–all of which take the arguments to deeper levels of dysfunctional strategies and behaviors. And their win rates more than double, no decisions made plummet, sales/buying cycles reduce by 30-40%.

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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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BuzzBoard

MARCH 28, 2024

An Overview of the Marketing Agency Sales Process The sales process in a digital marketing agency is a multi-step journey that requires a thorough understanding, strategy, and execution. For additional insight on sales strategy, peruse our other blog posts. Developing a sales strategy for the digital era?

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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. Cross-Functional Alignment Your go-to-market strategy depends on alignment.

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InsideSales.com

APRIL 23, 2021

Sales organizations are struggling to align their objectives and quotas with their strategy. These variables should be taken in context with other data like customer needs and buying cycles. Building a successful SDR team relies on good strategy, structure, and data.

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LeadFuze

JULY 3, 2023

In this post, we’ll delve into strategies such as identifying customer pain points, tailoring solutions based on these needs, and leveraging real-world examples through case studies and proven success stories. Furthermore, educating customers serves as an effective differentiation strategy while facilitating their buyer journey.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2024

But they can’t translate it to specific value, because they don’t understand the customer–as an enterprise with certain strategies, priorities, goals, and challenges. And, not surprisingly, buying cycles reduce by 30-40% since the seller is helping the customer navigate their process effectively.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Compared to B2C marketing strategies, B2B marketers and sales professionals rely on educating their audiences to gain more leads and conversions. More scalable marketing strategies – Email automation enables Integration with other digital tools, making touchpoints trackable. How Do You Set up Email Automation? Basic Steps.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 30, 2024

But unless the prospect is very late in their buying process, product/solution focused prospecting is unlikely to catch their attention. What would happen if we changed our outreach strategies to focus on problems? 30-40% reduction in buying cycle because we are helping them navigate a process they rarely do.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 24, 2022

Centrally managing multiple data sources — both first- and third-party — is necessary to build a results-driven GTM strategy. If the data isn’t formatted correctly and missing gaps are not filled, your whole GTM data strategy can get thrown off. Cloud data warehouses are powerful, efficient, and fast.

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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. Mark Hunter is the author of High-Profit Prospecting: Powerful Strategies to Find the Best Leads and Drive Breakthrough Sales Results. Own your prospect’s process. Maintain an optimistic attitude.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 6, 2021

When you get customer segmentation right, you not only show leads content that makes sense to them, but you get your audiences excited about buying from you. Customer segmentation is a marketing strategy that organizes buyers into groups. Marketers then use this information to guide their lead nurturing campaigns and GTM strategies.

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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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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 27, 2019

Author: Krishnan Venkata The rapid pace of digital innovation is forcing companies to undertake profound transformation of their entire business strategy and activities. Predicting consumer trends for goods with short buying cycles.

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SugarCRM

JANUARY 11, 2022

Marketers needed a strategic approach to define and target key accounts, so Account-Based Marketing (ABM) emerged and quickly became highly regarded as one of the most successful B2B marketing strategies. Here are 3 steps on how to get a structured approach to account selection and build an ABM strategy. How does it work?

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Emissary

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Featuring Seleste Lunsford, Chief Research & Strategy Officer at Emissary and Emissary Advisor Voislav Sauca, former CISO, Santander. Banks have a reputation for a long buying cycle and can take up to two years or more. Why does it take banks so long to make purchases?

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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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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 16, 2018

The best prospecting strategies require a human touch. McKinsey also created a template of what this human/digital communication preference looks like throughout the buying cycle, based on their surveys of business buyers. Believe that? Far too many sales reps do. They think that digital rules. Read the rest of the article.).

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Connext Digital

JULY 18, 2019

Once you notice a pattern in someone’s online activity, use it as an opportunity to deliver hyper-personalized emails that align with that person’s stage in the buying cycle. The post 5 Strategies to Keep Your Email List from Unsubscribing appeared first on Connext Digital. Provide email frequency options.

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 3, 2013

For 2014, I’m predicting it will be the year of execution and strategy and most companies won’t be ready. Crushing it in 2014 will be the output of the organizations who accurately assess their external and internal environments and translate them into unique and innovative strategies and then flawlessly execute on them.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 1, 2022

The better approach includes building a social media presence, creating and taking action on a search engine optimization (SEO) strategy, and much more. Upon driving customers to your website through effective digital marketing strategies, the next step is to convert them to clients. Top Tips to Convert Your Website Traffic to Leads.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Author: Ron Carson Just about every marketer today has been told to listen to the voice of the customer to inform marketing strategy. This includes prospects and people who aren’t in a buying cycle for your product but who may share common attributes with your customer base. There are two problems with this.

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Connext Digital

JULY 18, 2019

Once you notice a pattern in someone’s online activity, use it as an opportunity to deliver hyper-personalized emails that align with that person’s stage in the buying cycle. The post 5 Strategies to Keep Your Email List from Unsubscribing appeared first on Connext Digital. Provide email frequency options.

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The Sales Hunter

JULY 30, 2019

Saying that you’ll start prospecting as soon as you’ve taken care of everything else is not a strategy but an escape tactic to avoid prospecting! You won’t know if your process works unless you’ve executed it for a period of time that is twice the length of your average buying cycle. This is my rule.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Learn about their buying cycle, not your selling cycle. Sellers goof up because they don’t have a strategy in place to optimize it. Stop being reactive – make a plan of attack and use business-building, professional connection strategies as your framework. If that is how you work, stop doing that.

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