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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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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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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Groups Comparison Buying Cycle Exercises 156

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? sales Click To Tweet.

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Company Training Ideal Customer Profile Social Selling 97

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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Fashion Buying Cycle Social Media Survey 219

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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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

From the very first sales training program I went through, through programs we have led for 1000’s of sales people, through 1000’s of deal reviews, we always ask, “What is the customer’s decisionmaking process?” ” We are trained to pummel the customer with questions: Who is the decisionmaker?

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Face-to-face Buying Cycle B2B Customer 96

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

A Lack of Training. Training wasn’t as immersive as it needed to be, either, says Gupta, who recently co-authored a research paper on this topic for the Journal of Business Research. The strategy goes beyond teams and stretches to the top of the organizational chart. The answer has little to do with the technology itself.

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 252

Sales Training Connection

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Senior executives are not equally engaged throughout the buying cycle. In general, they are involved early and late and delegate most decisions in middle part of the buying cycle to others. If you found this post helpful, you might want to join the conversation and subscribe to the Sales Training Connection.

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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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Prospecting Buying Cycle Social Media Segment 242

Customer Centric Selling

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Sales Tips: New Salespeople In-Training? By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In my experience sellers historically have been most aggressive and annoying at the start of buying cycles in trying to get in the door and at then end of buying cycles with high-pressure closes.

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Top of Funnel Training Buying Cycle Funnel 40

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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Strategy Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring 55

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. We are trained, expertly, to talk about what we want to talk about. And we are surprised when customer prefer a rep-free buying experience. (Hmm, Buying cycles reduce by 30-40%!

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Customer Face-to-face Enterprise Enterprise 102

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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LinkedIn Referrals Buying Cycle Up-Sell 247

Partners in Excellence

APRIL 8, 2024

” The increasing difficulty–perhaps–inability to engage our customers, with many claiming “outbound is dead,” and others seeing PLG and other inbound strategies as critical to making the numbers (forgetting PLG applies to only a small set of solutions). Basic business acumen training and coaching.

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Top of Funnel Face-to-face Data Buying Cycle 108

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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Quota Face-to-face Ideal Customer Profile How To 52

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. You may then volunteer to conduct a product training for the employees of the company to help them understand how the product works. Map out your content.

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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. An internal champion helps you plan and execute your strategy to win the business. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 11, 2013

Over the years, I have found some very common responses to our sales and sales management training programs. This evaluation process helps us understand strengths, weaknesses, consistencies and inconsistencies in strategy, processes and systems. Our own personal buying process can, and will, often influence how we sell.

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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. You may then volunteer to conduct a product training for the employees of the company to help them understand how the product works. Map out your content.

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Strategy Segment Email Marketing Buying Cycle 40

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 11, 2021

Our engagement strategies are, too often, failing us. We are taught to ask about needs, but getting answers to those questions means the customer is actually fairly advanced in their buying journey. They may have alternatives to buying. We are trained and driven to sell.

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Buying Cycle Customer Strategy Conversion 97

The Pipeline

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Further, they shared a couple of “big reveals”; one was that “buyers” will go to the web and the social web long before they will “call a sales person or company”, in fact completing over 60% of the buy cycle. I am sure order takers need training too, may I recommend George Clinton.

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Decision Maker Oracle Buying Cycle Social Media 257

Score More Sales

AUGUST 26, 2014

By applying science and metrics to your client and prospect buying cycle, you can impact connection and real support to help them. I’ve been compensated to contribute to this program, but the opinions expressed in this post are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.

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B2B Revenue B2C Ideal Customer Profile 232

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Not only will companies need more inside reps, but they will also need people well trained in the products and services they sell, people who can talk and engage prospects without a script. And key decision-makers continue to be on the move and even willing to change positions and companies in the middle of the buying cycle.

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Inside Sales Trends Outsourcing Services Face-to-face 209

Zoominfo

MAY 25, 2021

Training wasn’t as immersive as it needed to be, either, says Gupta, who recently co-authored a research paper on this topic for the Journal of Business Research. The strategy goes beyond teams and stretches to the top of the organizational chart. The answer has little to do with the technology itself.

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Marketing Decision Maker Telecommunications Lead Rank 130

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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Hiring Sales Enablement Coaching Video 93

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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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. Across the buying cycle indicates sales engagement helps with more than just outreach and follow-up. .

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buying Cycle Forecasting 52

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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Territories Maximizer Buying Cycle Pivotal 73

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 26, 2019

As an example, recently I worked with a team that had been trained to deliver insight. They knew what to say, because they had been trained and scripted in saying the words. There were a number of problems with their implementation of their insight strategies: The insight wasn’t particularly new or unknown.

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Case Study Buying Cycle Study Sales Enablement 74

Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 14, 2013

There are a lot of players involved, the buying process is long, consensus is often lacking and there are a lot of tricky situations to be handled. Hence at different points in the buying cycle you may different internal champions to tell your story. ©2013 Sales Momentum ® , LLC.

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Buying Cycle Account Training Strategy 103

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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Training Buying Cycle Hiring Vendor 45

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. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to you and improve sales performance.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

That’s why there is a buying cycle– why most people don’t buy on the spot. Subscribe to the award-winning blog and the “Sales Ideas In A Minute” newsletter for sales strategies, tactics, and tips in selling. It takes time to build trust. Increase Opportunities. Expand Your Pipeline.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring How To Buying Cycle 236

Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 7, 2013

In major accounts it is more important than ever to have an effective strategy for selling at the senior executive level. However, one of the underlying success factors for developing the right strategy relates to timing – when in the buying cycle do you want to engage at the senior level and what do you need to do before you get there? .

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Buying Cycle Analysis Training Competition 111

SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

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. Change requires strategy, communication, and buy-in to be successful. Your Change Management Rollout.

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Top of Funnel Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buyer Persona 105