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Doing The Whole Job

Partners in Excellence

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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5 Considerations When Deploying a Sales Engagement Platform

SalesLoft

Buying a Sales Engagement solution is uncharted territory for many organizations. 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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If We Fixed Sales Execution, Would We Fix Sales?

Partners in Excellence

They know how to qualify, they know how to move the customer efficiently through their buying cycles, they know how to create value in the buying process. The sales person’s territory is open for 3 months. And we know the typical buying cycle in complex B2B sales is 9-18 months.

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Improving Sales Performance Without Changing “How You Sell”

Partners in Excellence

It may be adopting a new methodology, new technologies or tools, changing your go to customer strategies. These customers may buy, eventually, you will want to nurture them. These customers will tend to move through the buying cycle more quickly, there is a smaller likelihood of “no decision made.”

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“Why Does This Happen?”

Partners in Excellence

They are critical as we look at our own strategies and performance. If we are pursuing the right deals and executing that right engagement strategies, it’s actually pretty easy to have win rates far in excess of 50%. Or if we could find a way to help the customer compress their buying cycle, reaching a decision more efficiently.

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What’s Next?

Partners in Excellence

Where they are in their problem solving and buying journeys. Looking at our deal strategies, talking about how we might more effectively position ourselves. We have meetings on deal, pipeline, prospecting, account, and territory reviews. Even our sales training teaches us about the importance of these things.

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Top 7 Utopian & Dystopian Shocking Sales Predictions

Tony Hughes

Gerhard , Huthwaite and many other sci-fi fans have prognosticated that sales itself may face an existential threat from artificial intelligence (AI) as we move further and further toward the COMPLETE buying cycle. Again, the case for 100% decision and buying cycle complete. No humans needed???!!!

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