The Pipeline

MARCH 6, 2012

In these times of shrinking margins and diminishing returns, Mark’s insights will change the way you think about discounting, price, negotiating, and, above all, the all-important concept of value. Demand Generation. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling. Communication. Customer Care.

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The Pipeline

JULY 15, 2011

Discounting works on the Internet, too – but be careful. Discounting price also discounts value. Be careful about a blanket discount that can reduce the perceived value. This is one way in which discounting can work – sign up before midnight tonight to get 35% off. Demand Generation.

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Fill the Funnel

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Fill the Funnel readers are able to receive a $250 discount when registering to attend the biggest Sales 2.0 To receive the Fill the Funnel discount, enter the following discount code after entering your email address on the registration page : s2cftf. by using the discount code of s2cftf when registering. Conference.

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SalesLoft

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It will be the event that drives engagement among top-of-the-funnel modern revenue leaders, and helps position and align demand generation, inside sales, and digital marketing channels. And here’s the budget breakdown on attending: Salesloft has a discounted room block at the Westin in Buckhead. But wait… you already knew that.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL ) an antiquated, vanity metric? So, what qualifies as a good lead?

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The Pipeline

JULY 18, 2011

Every December the “Leadership”, would roll out the same special offer, an annual subscription for $30,000 if the customer committed before the all-important year-end, a $6,000 discount for those who bit. The other obvious lesson learned was not to sell at a discount. Demand Generation. Book Notice.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Marketing Operations (MOPs) rose up in the wake of rising automation and omnichannel demand generation. Deal desk and discount approvals. Here’s the rub: with this approach, each department requires its own optimization. These will be processes like: Lead form fill capture. Lead enrichment and distribution.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

And they always needed to, because clients had figured out that if they wait to the last week of the month, the company would cave in a sell at a discount. Demand Generation. They followed up in a week, and again a week later if they needed to. Book Notice. Book Review. Business Acumen. Buying Process. Cold calling.

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The Pipeline

JANUARY 13, 2012

If you spend the last week or 10 day of a quarter “closing”, limiting or skipping all other aspects of the cycle, what will you close 10 weeks after the quarter: Discounted deals. Demand Generation. Haven’t a clue. What’s in Your Pipeline? Tibor Shanto. Sales Success , Tibor Shanto , Time Allocation.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Are your demand generation, nurturing programs changing? Are you forced to discount more? Think about it: Have your customers changed the way they buy? Have your customers/markets changed? Has your customer engagement or customer experience model changed? Are you facing new or different competition?

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The ROI Guy

AUGUST 3, 2011

Our customers have embraced the fact that interactive, relevant, value-focused content aligned to facilitate the buyer's decision making process leads to higher conversions, shorter sales cycles and less discounting," said Jefre Futch , President and CEO of Alinean.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Demand Generation. Such techniques can include the now or never close, “If you commit now, I can get you a 20% discount,” or the question close, “In your opinion, does what I am offering to solve your problem?”. Keeping a list of proven, go-to closing techniques will help salespeople routinely win deals.

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The Pipeline

MAY 13, 2011

Create campaigns for the sales team that, rather than offering “once-in-a-lifetime” discounts or “check-in,” instead offer a report with valuable data. He focuses on b2b sales marketing across the entire funnel from demand generation to overall marketing to sales process and organization. Demand Generation.

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Corporate Visions

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In fact, people filter out and discount information that runs counter to their opinion. Your demand generation and customer acquisition messages should drive big changes and mentality shifts in your prospects. Preference Stability. When people form an opinion or preference about a situation, they don’t like to change their mind.

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Marketing Face-to-face Research Conversion 66

The Pipeline

MAY 23, 2011

For a nominal monthly charge of $49 they will deliver 100 LinkedIn connections per month, you want 200, you get a discount price, only $89 per month. Demand Generation. Just in case you think I am being too cynical, consider a tweet earlier this week from a Social Selling type promoting a site as a boon for Social Sellers.

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Jonathan Farrington

MAY 13, 2012

(CSOs, VPs of Sales, VPs of Marketing, VPs of Sales Operations, Directors of Sales/Marketing/Sales Operations/Demand Generation, or other executive-level leaders in sales and marketing). Use this code, s2cuk12topsales, to book your place and you will receive a £50 discount.

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Conference Demand Generation Demand Generation Targets Buying Cycle 41

Jonathan Farrington

MAY 7, 2012

(CSOs, VPs of Sales, VPs of Marketing, VPs of Sales Operations, Directors of Sales/Marketing/Sales Operations/Demand Generation, or other executive-level leaders in sales and marketing). Use this code, s2cuk12topsales, to book your place and you will receive a £50 discount.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 15, 2013

The result: More competitive losses, as Buyers don’t properly frame your differentiating value and commoditize the offerings, Longer decision cycles as Buyers struggle to properly understand the “cost of doing nothing” and value of change, More discounting, as purchase price becomes the key differentiator.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The lack of preparation has been directly shown to drive inefficient conversion, longer sales cycles, more discounting, and higher competitive losses. Content marketers obviously have some work to do with sales to overcome these buyer perceptions and drive sales enablement success.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Opportunities come from Prospecting and Demand Generation. ASP is about the level of decision maker you’re selling to, how much you initially quote them, and how much discounting you provide. Not only are these the key components of new revenue – each of these metrics is also directly tied to an aspect of your sales motion.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The lack of preparation has been directly shown to drive inefficient conversion, longer sales cycles, more discounting, and higher competitive losses. So why are the sales enablement investments not paying off? Are sales professionals resisting the fact that buyers and the buying lifecycle have fundamentally changed?

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DiscoverOrg Sales

APRIL 23, 2019

We asked Jake Shaffren, DiscoverOrg’s Director of Sales, and Nina Wooten, our Director of Demand Generation, about their favorite tips for generating sales leads at trade shows and events. Nina Wooten, Director of Demand Generation. To generate leads at trade shows, you have to start strategizing in advance.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Demand Generation. Discount means a promotional reduction in the cost of a product or service, commonly deployed to speed up sales. Deal Closing. Decision Maker. Direct Mail. Direct Sales. Mr.Brown has gone dark.).

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The ROI Guy

APRIL 21, 2010

For demand-gen marketing campaigns, compelling value oriented interactive tools is an absolute requirement for today’s frugal and skeptical IT buyers. Reduce discounting and increase deal size for direct sales by 20% or more by migrating sales from features, function and price selling to business value selling.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 10, 2020

There was a big shift of people moving to cloud marketplaces for these purchases and seeing organizations consolidate a lot of their IT spend to cloud providers because the more they purchase over time through something like AWS for example, the better their discount is and they’ll have less burden on the vendor management side of things.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2020

See why more than half a million businesses use DocuSign with a free trial and discount exclusively for Sales Hacker listeners at go.docusign.com/saleshacker. Scott Olrich: I see myself as a demand generation person through and through. Sam Jacobs: I’m sure you had a lot to do with that. That’s fantastic. billion.

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Lead Rank Lead Scoring Scale Demand Generation Agencies 53

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Top Sales Trends & Predictions of 2018: Buyer Side Technology Continues to Disrupt Sales Development & Demand Generation. For example, if you lose deals at an accelerated rate every time a rep brings up discounting or pricing in the first half of the call, wouldn’t you like to know that so you can coach your team on it?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Everyone wants mentors, and they’re extremely valuable, but don’t discount what you can learn from others at the same career stage as you are, both within your own company or elsewhere. She has extensive experience in business development, demand generation, inside sales, business transformation, and driving top line revenue.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2019

See why more than half a million businesses use DocuSign with a free trial and discount exclusively for Sales Hacker listeners, go to go.docusign.com/saleshacker for more information. Take control with a DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automated sales contracts and quotes all in your CRM.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The lack of preparation has been directly shown to drive inefficient conversion, longer sales cycles, more discounting, and higher competitive losses. Demand Generation In the Face of Frugalnomics and. Cant Manage What you Havent Measured So how can sales enablement stakeholders help to drive better performance.

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