Iannarino

AUGUST 1, 2021

It is a mistake to believe that recent means better when all leads share common traits, one being helping clients on their buyer’s journey. In sales, recency bias often influences how we evaluate leads. But in reality, you cannot determine how compelled any prospective client is to change at any time without speaking to them.

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Veloxy

APRIL 19, 2021

But it you’re going to do it, you’ll need the right strategy and approach. Question is, just who exactly do you hire? Craft Ideal Buyer Personas. All this data is fully represented in what we refer to as buyer personas – extremely valuable tools for your outbound sales teams. So, why should your customers buy from you?

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Gong.io

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is why sales qualification is so important — it helps you identify and prioritize prospects more likely to become buyers. How do you know if a potential customer is a good fit for your solution? How do you know whether to move prospects through your sales funnel or disqualify them? Read on to learn more.

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Iannarino

JULY 4, 2021

Focusing on the conversations that your clients find most valuable for their goals is the key to creating a preference to buy from you. The first thing you need to do is to create value for your prospective client. The Lost Art of Closing shows you how to proactively lead your customer and close your sales. Too Little Value.

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Iannarino

JUNE 13, 2021

Without distinguishing among them, you can easily lose complex deals where value creation dominates a client’s buying decision. Certain types of sales still do benefit from a transactional approach. Instead of buying a product or service, buyers demanded more help in solving their problems.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Buyers struggle doing their “jobs” ……buying! We poor sellers struggle, if it weren’t for these inept buyers, selling would be so much easier. We know 60% of committed buying processes end in no decision made. But buyers aren’t pulling their weight.

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

With the information in this blog, you’ll have a better understanding of how to effectively use open ended questions to drive your sales success (especially if you’re in field sales). Here are the five most popular open ended sales questions we use at Veloxy: How’ve you been?

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 18, 2022

Are you order, seller, or buyer centric? In this world, the ideal thing is the customer has educated themselves, is knowledgeable, may have a few final questions and issues (price is always the key one), and the customer makes a buying decision. It just requires us to manage the end of their buying process efficiently.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In recent years, we’ve acknowledged the concept of a customer Buying Process. Many have argued abandoning the Selling Process, focusing on the Buying Process, in the least we must align the selling process with the buying process. The reason is, for complex B2B buying, it’s something they rarely do.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We do the same things day after day. We prospect to find new opportunities, we work on deals, helping the customer move through their buying process and selecting a solution. While each situation is different, in general, the activities we do are similar. We do the same thing day after day, week after week.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 2, 2022

We know that most complex B2B buying is a consensus process. Everybody in the buying group has to align around a set of goals in order to make a buying decision. We, also, know the buying group tends to grow. It’s somewhere in the “mid-teens” for large complex buying decisions. As sellers.

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Gong.io

JULY 5, 2022

Then, we‘ll discuss how you‘d actually go about using it in practice, and share a few helpful examples to illustrate. A B2B sales funnel is a stage-by-stage model that depicts how B2B prospects move through the buying process. A given buyer might not necessarily move linearly along this pathway. Consideration.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 29, 2022

Increasingly, we see very powerful ways that sellers and customers can engage in their buying process and learning. They can track how this content is used, which content the buyers focus on. Some Digital Selling Rooms provide capabilities for the buying team to “talk” privately among themselves.

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PandaDoc

MAY 13, 2024

You already know who your customers are — but do you know what makes them tick and drives their decision-making? There’s no doubt about it: understanding customer behaviors and the reasons behind them can not only help you close deals but is a surefire way to keep buyers happy and fulfill the dreams of every sales lead.

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Heinz Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

How to Build a Career Path in 3 Steps. Blog vs. Podcast: Which Is the Best Choice for Your Business? A look at the differences between blogs and podcasts to help you decide what your business might benefit most from. The Information Sources B2B Tech Buyers Most Rely On. Blogging is competitive, and with that some fail.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” If focused on how profoundly selling is changing—Wow, I’ve never heard that before. It focused on buyers spending less time with sales people, quoting a Gartner survey, suggesting they get their information from other sources. There’s a whole bunch more data in that report, The B2B Buying Journey.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Recently, I’ve been trying to shift my own thinking and vocabulary about buying and selling. I believe shifting our vocabularies from Buyer/Seller to Buying/Selling is much more than wordsmithing. It forces us to change our perspectives about how our customers buy—or drive their problem solving/change initiatives.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To improve search rankings today, you need a comprehensive digital PR strategy that cultivates expertise, targets key touchpoints in the buyer’s journey, creates compelling data stories, and garners influence through reputation and recognition. And these guidelines are supposed to represent how they want the search engine to act.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Hank Barnes’ research on buyer remorse (and other things) is some of the most important research for sellers to understand. ” This is a key issue, if your customer isn’t committed to doing the work, if they are taking shortcuts through their buying process; are these really high quality deals. .”

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 13, 2021

It’s so intriguing, we see our customers and prospects struggling with buying. According to research, the majority of the time they fail in their buying journey, abandoning it. Buying is, without a doubt, broken! One would think this would drive a change in how we sell. Buying is, without a doubt, broken!

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As sellers, the pandemic has forced us to rethink our work and how we engage our customers. BTW, this isn’t really a new insight, Hank Barnes has been doing very thoughtful research for years. And some organizations have discovered profound things that re-shape how they sell. This creates both opportunity and threats.

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

By Sarah Threet , Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing In this blog, I continue to summarize April Dunford’s book on positioning, “ Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It ”. For part one of this book summary and learnings, please see my blog written here.

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Martech

AUGUST 16, 2023

Understanding modern customer experience expectations How we can use marketing technology not just to meet but exceed these sky-high expectations? They expect ease in their interactions In the B2B environment , customers are often dealing with complex products and services, and that’s after dealing with difficult buying journeys.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 20, 2021

I mean, this blog has also shared its merits. They conducted a study to determine how both B2B buyers and sellers use consumer reviews. Pretty good validation on how valuable this social proof is for conversions. Don’t know how or are uncomfortable asking for them. Don’t understand how to use them.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 26, 2021

We’ve mechanized the process, focusing on our efficiency and less the customer buying experience. The percent of customers abandoning their buyer’s journey with no decision made is very high-at 53%. And buyer regret is increasing at an alarming rate. Do we care enough about the buyer and their success?

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But more recently, buyers have changed the way they consume information and interact with businesses. Today, buyers no longer wait for organizations to reach out to them to make decisions. Because of this, it’s essential that organizations prioritize content to meet buyers where they’re at. Themes and topics.

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ConversionXL

JULY 25, 2022

Brands that slap a “Buy Now” button on a page and call it a day wonder why their campaigns fail to convert. It’s the point where you tell your reader to do something. CTAs drive the buying journey. Strong CTAs go beyond “buy now”. This raises several buyer objections: Do I have to pay? How much does it cost?

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

New tools, new processes, shifting buyer habits, greater visibility into revenue attribution, you name it, it is rife with change. So how do you drive change in a way that works? How do you get buy-in from the key people and teams you need? How do you get buy-in from the key people and teams you need?

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Heinz Marketing

OCTOBER 16, 2020

How prepared do Marketers feel for 2021? The three areas attendees felt needed the most improvement included the buyer and customer journey by 62.3%, campaign planning by 52.8%, and 50.9% Tackling your buyer and customer journey. At the beginning of the program, we found most respondents felt neutral about being prepared.

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 29, 2023

Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. This week’s show is entitled, “ The Widening Buyer/Seller Gap & How to Fix it “ My guest is Spencer Wixom , CEO at The Brooks Group.

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Highspot

JULY 5, 2023

This question is top of mind for sales leaders today, as research we commissioned from a leading B2B research provider confirmed that driving buyer urgency was ranked one of the top three sales challenges for CROs this year. Here are data-driven tips to optimize your buyer engagement and enable your reps to win more deals.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Buyers still have needs during a slump, but they’re more careful about who they’ll buy from and how much information they require to pull the trigger. Offer actionable value in your material, and buyers will see you as a resource that boosts their returns on investments. Position yourself as a friend.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The purchase journey of a B2B buyer differs greatly from that of a B2C shopper. Below are top tips for ensuring your SEO strategy is set up for success across every stage of the B2B buyer’s journey. Awareness stage The beginning of the B2B buyer’s journey. Dig deeper: B2B keyword research: A comprehensive guide 2.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

It leaves all the heavy lifting of “buying” to the customer. We don’t waste our time inciting people to change, to consider doing things differently. We don’t have to help them organize themselves to buy and define their buying journey. How do we differentiate ourselves in very competitive markets?

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Martech

MAY 30, 2023

You have likely seen this phrase in plenty of marketing blogs. Overwhelming consumers with content they do not ask for can impact brand loyalty and credibility. This article explores three ways to enable customers to take charge of their buyer’s journey with “reception marketing.” “Meet your customers where they are.”

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Whether it’s emails, social visibility, SEO, or anything else, the focus is on getting buyers to take the initiative to reach us. We create volumes of dials, scripts, sequences focused on, “buy my product.” Relying on inbound, we leave all the heavy lifting of managing their buying process to the buyers.

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Heinz Marketing

APRIL 15, 2021

As more buyers are involved in the purchase decision, extending the length of time it takes to make a decision, a more complex buying journey is created for sellers. For this complex buying journey, a new approach to how go-to-market teams align and coordinate their actions is required. Align on Target Audience.

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