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The Fear Factor of Competition

Pipeliner

In our world of selling, the point is that understanding your adversaries is nothing short of a survival skill and these sage words allude to the criticality of having meaningful insights into the competitors we face on a daily basis. Competitive analysis typically comes in one of two flavors. We must know them and account for them.

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Buyer Personas and Perception

Janek Performance Group

You know, that ideal customer profile of your best potential prospect? Now imagine a sales rep, rolling into a Monday morning meeting with a new prospect who just shelled out over $100 to fill up his tank. Does last year’s persona prepared by marketing still apply to this prospect? Let’s explore.

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Get Over It

The Pipeline

So when they are actually involved in a real competitive “sale”, and have to do things to win the order (other than discounting and negotiating with their own company rather than the prospect), and it doesn’t go their way, how they react becomes the measure of those reps.

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Outbound sales isn’t dead. It’s evolved.

SalesLoft

” — Our sage VP of Sales in EMEA, Marcus Oulds. When prospects exhibit certain external behaviors, their likelihood to partner with our organization increases substantially. These plays , combined with plays that are triggered around winning back competitive losses, constitute our highest priority outbound efforts.

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The Top 35 Sales Podcasts for Sales Professionals

Zoominfo

You’ll discover how you can shift your mindset, win with prospects and build long-term relationships with your clients so you can thrive and advance in your career. Podcast host, Mark S A Smith puts it like this, “If you’ve got to sell something disruptive or just want to disrupt the competition, you’re in the right place.”.

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Shock Treatment – Sales eXchange 192

The Pipeline

I’ll be the first to admit change is hard, especially for business buyers who have their handful, trying to make headway in a competitive market. Change is time consuming, a drain on resources, creates upheaval, usually expensive, and fraught with risk, for the organization and the individual at the centre of the decision.

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The Ultimate Guide to TikTok for B2B Sales

Sales Hacker

Sharing relevant information sets you apart from the competition. Create a larger base of prospects Increasingly more studies show that people use TikTok for product discovery and as a search engine. The right ads can sway your potential partners in the right direction: You can help your prospects understand their true needs.

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