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How to Think About The Huge Expenses of Events and Tradeshows

SaaStr

Many leads need 2-3 touches, 2-3 contact points, before they close. It’s not that the show generated the lead, but it was the additional touch necessary to close. You gotta be present. The post How to Think About The Huge Expenses of Events and Tradeshows appeared first on SaaStr. Especially in the enterprise.

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Sales Tools to Increase Tradeshow ROI

SBI

Sales Tools to Increase Tradeshow ROI. Lately, I’ve seen specific functionality come to the forefront—features that make it easier to deliver content to prospects at tradeshows and to follow-up afterward. ” Tradeshow specific features not only provide better insight on event ROI they help to actually ensure a higher ROI.

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How do you pull your SaaS competitor’s customers to your SaaS instead?

SaaStr

They avoid the same tradeshows. You often get another chance at the deals you lose — but you have to be remembered and present. That you just closed Google as a customer. Q: How do you pull your SaaS competitor’s customers to your SaaS instead? You have to be where your competitors are. You have to show up.

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Agile marketing sometimes means deciding what you’re not going to do

Martech

A good response here might be, “I see the urgency with your tradeshow happening, but the team is working on the direct mail postcards you asked for a few weeks ago and we’re right in the middle of them. If we stop to do the presentation, those won’t get done. Let’s dig into how we can respond to Jim’s request for the product sheet.

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The Ultimate List of Sales Movies & TV Shows

Veloxy

Always be closing.” As sales professionals, we all remember our first trip to a seminar, convention, or tradeshow. What salesman doesn’t need that form of courage when presenting to leads and customers? Glengarry Glen Ross. Now we’re moving from stock brokers to real estate salespeople. Cedar Rapids. You’re a non-believer.”

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Time for Sales & Event Teams to be Equal Partners

SBI

Ironically, this will mean that when Tradeshows and Exhibitions get going again, they may have less visitors, but their value will increase as this becomes one of the few ways to meet in person. Before Covid, sales meetings were moving more online anyway, but now there may be quite a long time before face-to-face meetings start up again.

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Executive Interview with Pete Gillett of @ZuantApp: Sales as a Buying Experience

SBI

And these days, it’s all about ‘speed to lead’ – people won’t wait anymore; whether it’s a visit to your website or your tradeshow booth. This is often an overlooked aspect where there is such a flurry of activity to close an initial deal, but if the buying cycle timing isn’t absolutely correct it may take a year or two to close.