Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 16, 2018

In the “good old days” of selling (if there ever were any), a lot of sales people reveled in their “information advantage.” ” Prospects and customers relied on sales people to educate them on products and solutions. Those days are long gone, customers are self educating on the web.

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Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The questions sometimes lead to revelations that might otherwise never come to mind. Women’s Information Network (WIN) An education-and-event-based Global Community of Women Helping Women Worldwide Live Their Best Lives through Celebration, Self-Improvement, and Service.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Where sales people used to be a primary channel for information and education about products/solutions, now customers can self educate through an increasing number of digital and other channels. Suddenly, I had a revelation (in my terms, a brain fart). Sales people change jobs, every 20-22 months.

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Revelation Face-to-face Channels Segment 80

Increase Sales

JUNE 8, 2012

With a more educated target audience and decision makers having greater personal demands, finding the unique value for each decision maker involved in the buying process can be exceptionally difficult and time consuming. or would you prefer “Bull Feathers!” Sales buying rule #3).

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The two people were amazed upon hearing my revelation as they had never told anyone else about their life-altering moments. They wanted to know what motivated me most to become an entrepreneur, turn to write to express myself, and be witness to my purpose unfolding.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 2, 2012

There are tremendous resources on the web that provide much information to the customer, enabling them to self educate, get opinions of others, and to narrow their alternatives to a short list. Self education becomes a value alternative to avoid sales people. Customers Are Self Educating/Informing, But What Are They Learning?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2013

We’re educated and trained about complexity. Simultaneously, we complain about complexity and what it does to our businesses and lives, yet we also revel in it. We revel in complexity because we can escape ownership and accountability. I’ve been surprised, there’s been some resistance to the notion.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 25, 2022

Another outstanding example of qualifying and matching our connections brings about revelation beyond what we know. Women’s Information Network (WIN) An education-and-event-based Global Community of Women Helping Women Worldwide Live Their Best Lives through Celebration, Self-Improvement, and Service.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 27, 2017

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. If buying were that simple, clearly there is eventually no need for sales people.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 8, 2016

Marketers revel in the opportunity to create ever so much more content, to engage influencers talking about our products and services, run webinars and other programs to help our customer self diagnose. We do need to educate them. Increasingly, too many organizations think this is a good thing.

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Revelation Face-to-face Research Travel 48

Fill the Funnel

OCTOBER 20, 2015

This is an important revelation to those in sales who need to provide information as compelling and effective as possible. Other studies by educational researchers suggest that 83% of human learning occurs visually. The results they gathered also taught us that: 50% watch business-related videos on YouTube.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Third, be confident in expressing your opinions and educating others. It was a revelation that, “ We can be doing even better. ”. Second, mentor and train your reps to focus on the best parts of your product. This decreases your surface area for failure or misalignment with prospects. This wasn’t a knock on the team before me.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2018

When they are buying, they leverage multiple channels for educating themselves on products/solutions. Too often, we find sales people unconsciously reveling in the distraction from being with customers—being with customers is tough work! It’s true, our customers are crazy busy.

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Up-Sell Revelation CRM Buying Cycle 52

Jonathan Farrington

OCTOBER 2, 2012

However, these traditional competitive advantages continue to be neutralized by process improvement methodologies like Six Sigma and more importantly, the educated/informed customer.

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Revelation Face-to-face Competition Segment 44

Factor 8

JUNE 4, 2020

These are my revelations and insights so far. For education? God, I don’t THINK I do, but could that be why I hesitated? I have more to learn. My team recommended two resources so far: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on George Floyd “13th” on Netflix. Who has ideas for reform? For screening? What can help fix this?

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Nutshell

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If you remember, Jerry had this revelation in the movie. For more education on empathy based marketing and sales, visit markempa.com. BRIAN CARROLL: Anyone who’s done something for a while has these moments that put you on a new path. And I had what I would call my “Jerry Maguire” moment. All you can do is just get better.

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Sales Evangelist

DECEMBER 1, 2023

By shifting the focus from selling to educating, sales professionals can build trust, provide valuable insights, and ultimately close more deals. The Desire for Education A key insight from Donald is the revelation that buyers crave education and seek out sales professionals who can serve as industry authorities.

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Prospecting Revelation Education Hubspot 40

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Customers are self educating, they don’t want to see sales people until they have completed the majority of their buying process! Great organizations are leveraging social channels, complementing the content, responding to the continued customer need for information and education — the way they prefer to be informed and educated.

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Sales Evangelist

AUGUST 15, 2019

Reshan Richards is a career educator who launched an app — targeted for use in schools — that ultimately became a software business. Together with Steve Valentine , also a career educator, he is collaborating to articulate and pinpoint the specific moves that can be borrowed from the teaching profession and implemented in business.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Yes, those people had to do minor education on the products, provide pricing, provide some differentiation, but there is nothing new here. Yet the principles of ABM/ABS/ABE have existed for years, yet the SaaS world seem to be reveling in their discovery. Many B2B sales of commoditized products are transactional.

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Account Based Marketing Revelation Sales Methodology Inbound 52

Carew International

APRIL 11, 2018

Recent revelations of widespread sexual harassment in the workplace and groundswell of the #MeToo movement have moved this highly charged topic to center stage. Your HR department is an essential resource for your own education and that of your team, as well as in setting policies and reporting procedures that keep everyone protected.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 15, 2010

We just had such an a-ha revelation about our new business today. Owner, I’m Thankful Network, Radio for Inspiration, Education & Collaboration. Now it makes more sense when I see you helping biz owners figure things out and solve their problems. It’s in your genes. : ). Mrs. Anna Aaby would be proud. : ). ImThankful4U.

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Hiring Lead Rank Lead Scoring Revelation 149

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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. Instead, The Challenger Sale recommends a new, provocative approach to selling: Commercial teaching. The Challenger Customer.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And basically, the first time you write a song on an acoustic guitar, which is where I write my songs, you hear it’s sort of like a revelation. When I try to do that, he rewrites them most of the time, as well as I’m not a developer, not an engineer by trade or training or education or anything, to be honest with you.

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