Babette Ten Haken

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Technical decision makers are skeptical by nature. First, they do not assume anything, including the validity of marketing and sales materials. Technical decision makers are just as skeptical with each other as they are with the sales, marketing and non-technical types reading this article.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 8, 2023

requires an extensive understanding of finance to back it up. About 46,600 openings for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents are projected each year, on average, over the decade.

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Janek Performance Group

JANUARY 25, 2023

From product details to solution recommendations, sales reps present a lot. As a sales training company, we study, teach, and coach best practices for presentations. However, today, with so much uncertainty, budgets are tight, decision makers are plentiful, and competition is stiff. This helps personalize presentations.

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Sales Evangelist

MARCH 8, 2019

Sometimes sales professionals get it backward, and they fail to understand the need to worry more about your champion than your decision maker. We tend to become so obsessed with the decision makers that we overlook the champions, who are arguably the most important person in the whole scenario.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Then Google REALLY started marketing! This week ask yourself: Are you following AT&T’s marketing efforts? Then they sent out another one, this time in a neat, glossy package. Then a Google rep showed up out of the blue, canvassing the neighborhood. I wasn’t home, but he pitched my wife and said he’d come back. Or Google Fibers?

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Mr. Inside Sales

APRIL 30, 2023

They may get some leads out and set up some “demos or presentations,” but because they didn’t discover whether a prospect was truly a buyer and in the market at that time, their close rate is a disappointing 2 sales out of 10 full presentations…. Compare that with your own close rate or your team’s closing percentages.

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Selling Energy

DECEMBER 21, 2022

CEOs are typically “what” and “why” decision-makers, so chances are that if they ask you a question during your meeting, it will be something along the lines of “Why do we need to do this?”.

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Mr. Inside Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Or maybe you get one of these variations of the “We are all set” objection like: “We are okay with our present system.”. Response One: “That’s great, and I’d just like to see if we could get on your vendor list for the next time you’re in the market. Response Four: “I understand; I didn’t expect to catch you in the market right now.

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Chorus.ai

JANUARY 7, 2020

A successful sales presentation still requires careful handling. More than that, a successful sales presentation requires that you demonstrate how your prospect’s story and your product’s story are one and the same. We’ve broken down the essentials to creating an epic sales presentation into straightforward, actionable steps.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 31, 2020

It also means that the decision makers have all agreed that their buying motives (needs) are such that a decision needs to be made now. In addition, what is also important about timeline is that if the prospect you’re speaking to isn’t in the market at this moment, it means you can relax behind your pitch.

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Mr. Inside Sales

JANUARY 2, 2023

In fact, this is also felt in the accounting department, the marketing department, and everywhere else. While this may seem like a bad thing, it actually presents a great opening for you. Identifying decision makers. Giving successful presentations and dealing with objections. Qualifying prospects.

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BuzzBoard

APRIL 4, 2024

Addressing Fears About Trust Issues in Digital Marketing Agencies Overcoming fear and skepticism toward digital marketing agencies is a common concern for small and local businesses. The alarming whisper, “I don’t trust digital marketing agencies,” often stems from unfamiliarity and past negative experiences.

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Chorus.ai

APRIL 1, 2021

There’s no more effective way to articulate your product’s value proposition than with a well-executed sales presentation. Once you’ve earned that shot at a sales presentation, you need to make every second count. You must avoid long-winded technical monologues and drab PowerPoint presentations at all costs.

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Sales Gravy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Marketing and Do It! Selling, discuss exactly how to connect and engage with decision makers and avoid the "middle management trap". Target a specific market instead of trying to target everyone. This requires deep-dive research on market forces, disruption, and compliance regulations.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 4, 2021

Having a scoring and qualification system in place will weed out unfit leads and save sales and marketing teams time. Marketing teams typically have their process of scoring and qualifying leads (MQLs), but it may look different for sales teams (SQLs). Align with your marketing team for unified lead scoring and qualification.

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SBI Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Yet many reps struggle to get that critical first meeting with a decision maker. Social Selling’s ‘Lead-to-Close’ conversion rate is 5x marketing sourced leads. This post will address what Marketing can do to promote, enable and optimize social selling within the organization. Marketing owns branding.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 1, 2019

What makes a good sales presentation? An effective presentation tells a compelling story, highlights your value proposition, and aligns with your audience's needs and desires. Hate the thought of doing sales presentations ? But the best reps have sales presentations down pat, even if it’s not their favorite activity.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“It’s something like an educated Hail Mary pass that sweeps up unconverted marketing qualified leads.” What do we mean by “direct mail marketing”? Direct mail marketing makes direct contact with individual consumers, as opposed to reaching a large audience with mass media, such as advertising. How are gifts presented?

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Not an artificial view of the market designed to favor our product. Often the gap on alignment is less about a market view. This means that if you are dealing with decision-makers and people creating and implementing strategies, alignment includes aligning in time or timeline. The whole project, not just your product.

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BuzzBoard

MARCH 28, 2024

An Overview of the Marketing Agency Sales Process The sales process in a digital marketing agency is a multi-step journey that requires a thorough understanding, strategy, and execution. Before engaging potential clients, a marketing agency needs to first identify its target market and generate leads.

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Janek Performance Group

JUNE 27, 2023

Have you ever been on a sales call where you were convinced that your prospect was using an inadequate product or solution, yet they seemed to dismiss every argument you presented? By recognizing this parallel, sales professionals can gain deeper insights into how decision-makers make decisions.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Closing an enterprise sale in a niche market follows the same sales funnel as any other deal, but a bit more fine tuned. Enterprise sales, also known as complex sales, refer to the selling strategy used by large organizations involving long sales cycles, multiple decision-makers, and higher levels of risk. Top-down approach.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

Our feeds are filled with hacks, prompts, “cheat sheets” offering things like, “What are key decision maker roles for this… ? I refine them, suggesting a certain industry or market. I test across different roles, markets, different issues. What are qualifying questions… ?

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BrainShark

MARCH 3, 2024

Whether sales enablement technology is a new initiative for your organization, or your current solution isn’t getting the job done, you need key decision makers on board with your vision for success. You can counter this by presenting a well-informed proposal to your decision-makers. Think “ROI Calculators.”)

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BuzzBoard

JANUARY 25, 2024

Defining ROI in the Context of Small Business Digital Marketing In digital marketing, understanding the concept of Return on Investment (ROI) is crucial, particularly for small businesses. It ensures that investments in digital marketing lead to quantifiable business growth.

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The Digital Sales Institute

APRIL 26, 2023

Data visualization for sales and marketing provide insights right in step with the rise of big data. As the owner of a small, medium, or large business, you understand the importance of reducing business risk and making decisions on sales, marketing, or products through data analytics.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

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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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

The world has been stirred up by a global pandemic, most of us are still working from home, and digital marketing strategies have become a critical part of every company’s survival. When it comes down to it, one of the most important things marketing organizations are tasked with is generating marketing qualified leads (MQLs).

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

Author: Steve Randazzo Once upon a time, trade shows were deemed the kings of B2B marketing events. High-powered decision makers no longer feel they have time to travel or roam around for a week accumulating briefcases full of brochures. Others, like the Food Marketing Institute show in Chicago, have disappeared entirely.

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Membrain

JUNE 27, 2021

I recently gave a presentation on strategic pricing. Afterwards, an audience member who leads a marketing firm asked for advice on how to handle RFPs (requests for proposal). Her question: “How can we sell value when we can’t even talk to decision-makers?”.

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Julie Hanson

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Your marketing department just invested a lot of time and money creating a dazzling new presentation for the sales team. use a hodgepodge of content or throw out the presentation all together), key messages get lost, and quality and accuracy suffer – along with the customer and the opportunity. Sales or Marketing?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Historically, sales professionals and marketers spent a lot of time chasing down prospects with a scant probability of getting an appointment, let alone winning business. Join us as we examine 7 specific ways that this kind of intelligence impacts marketing and sales processes. This is Part 2. … Intent data. Business model.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I customized this to one of my needs as a digital marketing agency. As a VP of digital at a small digital marketing agency, I’m often tasked with drafting sales proposals to potential clients. Pricing and Packages: • Present pricing options and packages tailored to the client’s needs. I will say more about that soon.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Product marketing roadmaps aren’t a staple in most B2B organizations, but there are a host of reasons they should be. The biggest reason metaphorically speaking, is they willingly “fence the salesforce” into your most lucrative markets and give them a shorter path to meeting sales quotas and revenue goals. The short answer is no.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 24, 2017

When DiscoverOrg hosted a Meet-Up event, “Overcoming Roadblocks When Selling Enterprise IT,” we expected insights into how successful sales people identify and access key decision makers at targeted accounts. The vendor only presented the two solutions discussed and nothing else. Do align with marketing.

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Mr. Inside Sales

MARCH 25, 2021

Skill level of the sales rep is the most important thing; however, there are other variables like the type of lead—inbound versus outbound; the territory; existing client or new prospect; the marketing and/or branding of the company, etc., are just a few of the other factors that influence sales. Get Access Today. appeared first on Mr.

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Mr. Inside Sales

DECEMBER 4, 2020

These include things like: “We are okay with our present system.”. Response One: “That’s great, and I’d just like to see if we could get on your vendor list for the next time you’re in the market. Response Four: “I understand; I didn’t expect to catch you in the market right now. Enjoy and happy holidays! Let me ask you…”.

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