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WHY IS IT SO HARD TO ACCESS DECISION MAKERS?

Mereo

B2B decision makers have often been akin to the Viking warriors centered behind a shield wall. According to a past Objective Management Group analysis , only 1% of salespeople new to sales — those often with the onus of sales development — can get past the shield of gatekeepers to access decision makers.

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Product Marketing Roadmaps – Your Revenue Destination With Turn-by-Turn Directions

Product Management University

While it’s a team effort to create the roadmap, the responsibility falls on the head of product marketing or the portfolio marketing manager to organize the content and present the plan to stakeholders, primarily sales, customer success/account management and the executive team. Remember, customers don’t buy because they understand you.

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The Value of a Product Marketing Roadmap: It’s Like Deep-Sea Fishing for Sales

Product Management University

It identifies where the best opportunities are relative to the strength of your existing solutions, articulates the value positioning (bait) required to reel them in, then turns the salesforce loose on those opportunities via demand generation programs.

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B2B Sales Prospecting Strategy: 6 Ways to Improve

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Consider the following statistics ( source ): Companies who exceed lead and revenue goals are 4 times as likely to use personas for demand generation compared to those who missed lead and revenue goals. 36% of companies have created shorter sales cycles using personas. Read more] Overcoming Sales Objections: The 5-Point Guide.

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Gartner: The Technology Sales Rep Has Lost Their Mojo!

The ROI Guy

In order to close the Value Gap, current sales metrics need to dramatically change, measuring the different decision makers being engaged, their unique customer challenges , the “cost of do nothing” and potential value impacts.

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Redeploy Your Budget for 2H 2020 Revenue Rebound

Mereo

Sales Enablement: Dedicate cycles and budget to enhancing the skills of sellers through training role-play exercises necessary to excel in the new dynamic. 2021 Sales Kickoff Preparations : The most important sales meeting you may lead in your entire career will be the next in-person one, which is likely your 2021 sales kickoff).

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Win the “Customer Value” Relay Race and Dominate Your Market

Product Management University

Marketing & Sales Enablement. The marketing and sales enablement function has three goals: Create a corporate résumé (positioning) that communicates your strategic value to the market in the customers’ vocabulary. Execute demand generation programs that open doors for salespeople at the decision-maker level.