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4 Major B2B Checkout Challenges to Fix in 2024

Hubspot

When you think about online checkout experiences, odds are retail comes to mind. But over the past several years, digital checkout for B2B has seen an explosion in growth. In late 2021, a Gartner study revealed that 83% of B2B buyers prefer placing orders or paying for goods through digital channels. The future of B2B Checkout?

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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Lead List

Hubspot

If you need more convincing, here are five advantages to creating and maintaining a B2B lead list: 1. In my experience, lead data quality can help convert a lead into an opportunity and a closed deal — or it can scuttle your company’s chances of ever doing business with a prospect. Tip #1: Define your ICP and your personas.

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LinkedIn Sales Mastery: How B2B Teams Close More Deals with Social Selling

RingDNA

75% of B2B buyers and 84% of C-level or VP-level executives use social media, including LinkedIn, to make purchasing decisions.” In B2B sales, it often takes north of six contacts to close deals. But talking to prospects on LinkedIn can accelerate the sales cycle. Source: Gartner ​.

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My Six Selling Mantras

Adaptive Business Services

Even better, I love to share that with clients and … most folks that I worked with during my 45 plus years of B2B sales experience have had very little knowledge of what they are thinking about buying. Educate more, sell less … I’ve always prided myself on solid product knowledge. It’s a win win for both of us!

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How Windsurf / Codeium Built a Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine

SaaStr

Founder-led sales provides invaluable dat a When founders sell the first $2-3M, they generate critical insights on customers, conversion rates, and retention that inform the GTM strategy. .” The complexity of managing 30+ enterprise sellers without clear territory boundaries created unnecessary friction.”

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AI and the Bottom Line with Canva’s CCO: How They Built a $7B Enterprise Motion on 16 Billion AI Interactions

SaaStr

Instead, they extended their existing customer-first culture into enterprise sales, maintaining their philosophy of “give value first, get value second” even in complex B2B transactions. Most SaaS companies excel at customer acquisition orchestration but underinvest in post-sale experiences.

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Buyer’s journey vs. customer’s journey — what makes these paths different, and where they intersect

Hubspot

When I first started consulting for B2B SaaS companies, I made the mistake of thinking the buyer journey and the customer journey were basically the same thing — just two sides of the same funnel. This moment looks different for every business: Sometimes it happens with the first product experience. They aren’t.