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Marketing Displaces Sales!

Partners in Excellence

Customers are self educating, they don’t want to see sales people until they have completed the majority of their buying process! Marketing is providing rich content and relevant information for customers and prospects. Marketing becomes the primary channel to the customer for much of their buying process.

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Why I’m So Optimistic About The Future Of Selling

Partners in Excellence

It was a group of very bright thinkers/practitioners in sales and marketing. We were discussing the future of sales and marketing–things we saw happening, things we believed needed to change. Suddenly, I had a revelation (in my terms, a brain fart). It was a fascinating discussion, but I struggled participating in it.

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Are You Willing to Move Beyond Impossible?

Smooth Sale

Upon being asked to select a topic related to her YouTube Channel, ‘ Attract Your Tribe Affirmations’ caught my attention. Another outstanding example of qualifying and matching our connections brings about revelation beyond what we know. Immediately, I realized how far I have come and the further help I may provide.

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“Just the facts, Ma’am…”

Partners in Excellence

Search YouTube or some of the TV Classics channels for episodes. Many marketers, sellers, content advocates revel in letting customers self educate on the web, thinking buying is just about getting the facts, evaluating the alternatives, and making a rational decision.

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Freeing Up “Time To Sell” Is BS!

Partners in Excellence

When they are buying, they leverage multiple channels for educating themselves on products/solutions. For example, marketing and product management want to learn more about customers and how to better serve them. It’s true, our customers are crazy busy. ” These can become huge time drains.

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The Top 52 Sales Books Every Sales Pro Should Read

Gong.io

Rather than asking customers what keeps them up at night, The Challenger Sale recommends crafting an educational sales pitch that teaches the customer what should be keeping them up at night. It wasn’t until I graduated from my “tour of duty” in sales and moved on to run product marketing that I read this book. The Challenger Customer.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Sam Jacobs: Put that in your business plan, page two marketing, free T-shirt. So, you want to sell on eBay, on Amazon, on Walmart, on hundreds of other channels throughout the world, then ChannelAdvisor can help you get on those channels in a seamless, efficient way. Ryan Walsh: Sam needs a T-shirt is on my to-do list here.

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