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6 steps to adapt effectively

Sales and Marketing Management

from all of your sales channels. Optimize your e-commerce channel to give buyers ease and convenience, and make sure all your sales channels are integrated and incented to collaborate with each other. Read the full report , “How B2B decision makers are responding to the coronavirus crisis.”. Are you digital-ready?

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COVID-19 accelerates expected B2B sales trends

Sales and Marketing Management

McKinsey & Company created its B2B Decision Maker Pulse , a survey of 3,600 B2B decision makers in 11 countries and 12 sectors across 14 spend categories. The objective is to identify how decision makers continue to learn and pivot their operations in the age of COVID-19. A pivot to remote selling.

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Balancing Traditional Selling vs. The Modern Sales Approach

Vengreso

These barriers hurt the long-term success of sales teams because of one truth: the modern buyer has changed their decision-making process. The modern buyer has a longer journey that involves more decision-makers. Unscheduled phone calls and emails demand the buyer’s attention and in-person meetings require travel time.

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8 Ways to Use BASHO Emails in Cold Email Outreach – With Examples

Zoominfo

A “BASHO email” is a fancy-pants name for a very personalized B2B email, usually addressed to a decision-maker at a high-value account. When your prospect is a decision-maker. It’s hard to get decision-makers, department heads, and people of influence —the people you really want to reach—on the phone.

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Is B2B Buyer Confidence Stalling Your Deals?

Alice Heiman

Brent explains decision maker confidence is the main barrier for B2B teams to close deals. By the same measure, help the customer make the best decision and if that’s not your product, get to that answer as quickly as possible. Watch the podcast below or on our YouTube channel. I need a travel agent. [13:15]

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Thinking Outside the Box This Holiday Season

Janek Performance Group

Take the path less traveled and double down on your outbound efforts. In our experience, many decision-makers work through the holidays. Another benefit is while these decision-makers are in the office during the holidays, they often have more free time to talk with you. Don’t follow the herd. That’s for amateurs.

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B2B Inside Sales Vs Outside Sales | With Pros and Cons

SendBuzz

This reliance on digital solutions allows for more structured processes, less travel for inside sales reps, and easier organization compared to outside sales teams. B2B Inside Sales team commonly uses various communication channels, including phone calls, email, video conferencing, CRM tools such as Hubspot, CLose, ect and social media.