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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Buying Cycle Ideal Customer Profile Customer Education 48

BuzzBoard

MARCH 28, 2024

The contemporary digital sales process places a massive emphasis on creating sales enablement content, including blog posts, case studies, FAQs, video tutorials and more. These resources guide prospective clients through each stage of the buying cycle, addressing their questions and eliminating doubts.

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Webinar Metrics Case Study Comparison Small Business 98

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It goes beyond the friendly, but unfortunately biased, conversations marketers may have for the purposes of customer case studies or testimonials. 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. Those people are already fans).

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Conversion Marketing Customer Trade Show 177

SalesforLife

MAY 2, 2019

A discussion on core benefits and case studies of AI for sales organizations. The experts explained that there are both internal and external factors that are affecting the buying cycle. A brief discussion was held on the sales study impact to know how AI is changing the world of selling.

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B2B Case Study Webinar Metrics Buying Cycle 100

Mindtickle

JUNE 15, 2023

Continuing the motif of “quality over quantity,” Forrester’s Amy Bills and Jennifer Bullock applied this to the creation of customer case studies. Instead of producing a case study with every available customer, focus on creating a few high-quality stories that address common customer questions and concerns.

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B2B Case Study Study Vendor 52

Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 15, 2013

The author says that some of the most successful salespeople share 10 personality traits but doesn''t say how many were in the study or how many shared the 10 traits! There were only 300 salespeople in the study and data was collected for only a three month period.

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Research Insurance Insurance Face-to-face 291

Pointclear

MAY 7, 2013

Interestingly, in recent years even vendors and suppliers have increased in importance in the buying cycle because of the way buyers are now networked. Study Lead Behavior. We’ve dug into the buying cycle but there is so much that can be learned from the pre-buy cycle.

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Buyer Buyer Persona Buying Cycle Sales Qualified Lead 189

Pointclear

APRIL 24, 2013

After completing his company''s 19th annual Sales Performance Optimization Study , Jim said it revealed that 94 percent of the companies surveyed increased their revenue target for 2013. Analysis of Buying Cycles and Stakeholders. Lead Generation — Don''t Just Turn Up the Volume. This makes a more successful marketing campaign.

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Customer Sales Qualified Lead Lead Generation Trends 240

Partners in Excellence

JULY 20, 2022

And for those decisions, buying cycles are getting longer! Make sure you buy it when it comes available in the Fall! Afterword: The data on buying cycles and buying regret comes from Hank Barne’s outstanding research on Enterprise Buying. Make sure you study his posts on this!

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Customer Buying Cycle Face-to-face Discount 68

Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 4, 2020

Our 2019 World-Class Sales Practices Study showed that lead conversion and quota attainment were both down by double digits (13% and 10%, respectively). decision makers involved in a deal and the sales cycle stretching beyond 5 months. decision makers involved in a deal and the sales cycle stretching beyond 5 months.

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Buyer Persona Lead Rank Lead Scoring Buying Cycle 84

Allego

MAY 17, 2023

Fill it with tips and best practices from your top sellers, case studies, win and loss reports, and other sales content. In addition, sales leaders should learn the skill of active inquiry and understand how to help sales reps discover answers for themselves that can lead to improved performance.

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Positioning Hiring Strategy Scale 113

Insight Demand

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

That’s the conclusion of a recent Gartner survey where Salespeople came in last place after technical and industrial experts, services and support, and senior executives as “the most influential personal interactions across the entire buying cycle.” ( click ) . So what’s the problem?

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Study Buyer Conversion Customer 46

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Understanding the buying cycle of large customers helps establish a reasonable quota. Perform a Time Optimization Study if you need to. Account Planning: In large dollar transactions, company knowledge, trends and purchasing habits are crucial. Determine how much of your time is spent in "non-selling" activities.

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Quota Ideal Customer Profile Territories Demographics 306

The Spiff Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Compensation is a business investment, after all, and you need to study it closely to identify areas of overspending or risk potential. Optimize your buying cycle from lead to close. Studies show that misaligned departments cost companies an average of 10% of their revenue per year ( source ).

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Strategy Compensation Commission ROI 74

Pointclear

JANUARY 23, 2017

Their time and money was applied to generating leads that paid off, and included extensive nurturing across multiple buying cycles. I invite you to read our new Account-based Marketing case study where we go over the content above and much more. That means they didn’t waste effort on a scattershot approach.

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Account Based Marketing Account Sales Qualified Lead Marketing 100

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? IT Directors?

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B2B Revenue B2C Ideal Customer Profile 232

SBI Growth

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Do you have content that targets prospects at each stage in the buying cycle? The majority of these leads are not ready to buy right away. In a 2010 study, SiriusDecisions found that 80% of leads a sales rep deems “unqualified” end up buying within (24) months.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank Lead Scoring 317

Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Recent studies would have you believe as much as 80% of buying activities are complete before salespeople are involved. The sequence in which these 2 activities occur goes a long way toward determining how likely it is that buying cycles end in buying decisions.

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Research Buyer Buying Cycle Vendor 92

The Pipeline

MAY 15, 2018

Studies from the CEB, TrustRadious, and others show that buyers are more overwhelmed than ever, and are taking twice as long to make decisions as they had thought going into their buying cycle. Buyers are not as hip as many social and content selling pundits will have you believe.

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Education Buyer Buying Cycle Objections 222

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

What can you do now to ensure they love your product and want to buy from you again? See how having access to customer data can improve your sales cycle. See the video case study. It’s all about the data. Loyalty Stage: Build long-term trust You close the deal and get your customer set up.

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Customer Social Media Top of Funnel Loyalty 130

Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

What can you do now to ensure they love your product and want to buy from you again? See how having access to customer data can improve your sales cycle. See the video case study. It’s all about the data. Loyalty Stage: Build long-term trust. You close the deal and get your customer set up.

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Customer Social Media Top of Funnel Loyalty 130

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

For example, one study by Marketo found that 79% of buyers “are only likely to engage with a brand… if those promotions are directly tied to how they have interacted with the brand previously.” Are they even in an active buying cycle? According to Marketing Insider Group , 78 percent of U.S. And what about Acme Corp?

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Buyer Ideal Customer Profile Buyer Persona Marketo 246

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The thing is, salespeople tend to assume that providing customers with more information makes it easier for them to buy from you. But that’s often not the case, the Gartner study concludes. So how do you go about making it easier for prospects to buy throughout the sales process? Making it easier, not harder.

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Customer Analysis Buying Cycle B2B 59

Zoominfo

JULY 17, 2018

Recent studies suggest that 20% to 40% of webinar attendees turn into qualified leads ( source ). Webinar attendees may be at various stages of the buying cycle. Attendee to qualified lead conversion rate. The end goal of any marketing or sales strategy is to close deals– and webinars are no different.

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Paid Content Webinar Metrics Sales Qualified Lead Promotion 255

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 5, 2023

Buscemi adds, "There are tons of studies that say a buyer is 60% to 70% of the way down the buying cycle before they even reach a rep — and those studies are 10-years-old. However, I think the way our information is available today has made it more acute in the minds of buyers and sellers.".

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Top of Funnel Buyer Data Buyer Intent 104

SalesLoft

JANUARY 8, 2020

A study that Vantage Point Performance and the Sales Management Association conducted showed that 44% of executives think their organization is ineffective at managing their sales pipeline. Consider that almost half the organizations surveyed in that study were not doing the sales process well.

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Sales Process Report Buying Cycle Scale 52

The ROI Guy

JUNE 4, 2019

The buying journey is not only slowed, but often stalled. A recent Gartner study found 94% of the respondents have participated in a buying cycle where the effort was canceled before the purchase was completed. We think of the current buying cycle as not only broken, but frozen.

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Sales Enablement Buying Cycle ROI Cancellation 40

SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Removing Data Silos for Enhanced Customer Experience Eden Exchange selected Sugar Sell to use it across their sales cycles as part of their collaboration with Sugar. It can follow even complex buying cycles and customer journeys, as in the case of their transactional online ecosystem.

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SugarCRM Case Study Buying Cycle ACT 26

The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Studies continue to show that less 20% of Sales Qualified Leads actually close, call that handshake to close, less than 20% – so even if pretended there are rules, they clearly don’t work if the measure is success. people likely to be involved in your sale. There are no secrets.

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Sales Qualified Lead Buyer Persona Buying Cycle ACT 120

SugarCRM

AUGUST 11, 2021

You can tailor the messages and content to each individual based on their interests, engagement level and stage of the buying cycle. In a study of 650 multi-channel marketing campaigns , personalized campaigns consistently and overwhelmingly beat out static campaigns in generating a high response rate from recipients.

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Buyer Marketing Buying Cycle Campaigns 49

Zoominfo

AUGUST 1, 2018

But, studies show that 50% of B2B buyers are more likely to make a purchase if they connect emotionally to the brand ( source ). Shorten your sales cycle. The B2B buyer’s journey is long and complex compared to the B2C buying cycle. In B2B deals, the buying committee consists of multiple stakeholders.

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B2B B2C Scale Transportation 154

Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 13, 2018

In our last post , we explored data from the CSO Insights 2018 Buyer Preferences Study , which confirms that buyers are engaging salespeople later and later in the sales process. Thankfully, our data also shows that buyers don’t actually want to cut salespeople out of the buying cycle. Perceived as risky for the organization.

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Buyer Top of Funnel Study Decision Maker 63

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. Case studies are like superhero stories for your product, proving its effectiveness. Use real-world examples.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Webinar Metrics Case Study 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Of the 12 million prospects we studied, only 2 percent (240,000) scheduled a meeting. Share a piece of content with them — such as a case study or white paper — and ask for feedback. The most successful sales professionals are those with a targeted plan for reaching prospects early in the buying cycle.

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Buyer Data Lead Rank Lead Scoring 103

Customer Centric Selling

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Statistics from an AMA study found executives answer only 4% of prospecting calls. The early stages of buying cycles will be more successful if sellers create curiosity and incremental interest from prospects. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company.

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Buying Cycle Energy How To Study 81

Miller Heiman Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

They view sellers as purveyors of solutions, not solvers of business problems, and thus don’t feel the need to seek their advice or engage them early in the buying cycle. Take the Sales Conversation Metric to assess your opportunities to improve your sales conversations and start engaging with buyers earlier in the buying cycle.

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Buyer Face-to-face Buying Cycle Retail 50

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 2, 2019

But studies are showing that the old B2B sales and marketing mix isn’t working anymore. Stay in contact until the buying cycle dictates opening the sales process. In other words, how long is the typical buying cycle. For example, you use your car every day, but you only buy a new one every few years.

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Penetration Industry Buying Cycle Marketing 68