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Challenges in Strategic-Level Selling and How to Overcome Them

Iannarino

Navigating the world of strategic selling comes with its unique set of challenges. For those dedicated to mastering strategic-level sales, understanding and overcoming these barriers is crucial to executing a sophisticated approach to selling. Here’s a deeper dive into the major hurdles and how to overcome them.

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Strategic Narcissism and Strategic Empathy

Iannarino

Army Retired) describes as strategic narcissism: "the tendency to define challenges to national security as we would like them to be and to pay too little attention to the agency that others have over the future.". Most of our approaches to sales can be compared to what LTG McMaster (U.S.

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Less Is More: Why You Must Focus on Strategic Targets

Iannarino

As a sales leader, I require my teams to pursue strategic clients. Occasionally, a salesperson would chafe when I rejected companies that would not find what we do to offer a strategic advantage. I discourage them from spending their time on companies that won’t benefit from our approach.

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How to Make Your CRM a Strategic Asset

Iannarino

But what if there were a way to make the CRM a strategic advantage in creating and winning new opportunities? None of these changes are difficult, but they create a strategic advantage. For their part, the sales force generally believes the CRM is Big Brother, a way to micromanage them. Let's get started.

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B2B Pocket Playbook: End-to-End Guide to Sales Enablement

Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward.

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How strategic martech integration drives business growth

Martech

To manage this complexity, you need an integrated martech stack that boosts efficiency, drives revenue growth, encourages data-driven innovation and aligns with strategic goals. However, obstacles like misalignment and poor collaboration can slow things down if not handled strategically. Enabling personalized content.

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On Pursuing Strategic Outcomes in B2B Sales

Iannarino

One way to prevent your clients from treating you as a commodity is to pursue a conversation that differs from your competitors’. When you look and sound like your rivals, you can expect your clients to believe you are no different. To differentiate yourself in your client’s eyes is to create value for them in the sales conversation.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

When the dust settles, we have a responsibility to turn our shock and grief into fierce determination and lead the charge of responsible, strategic, and sustainable future growth. Strategically aligning your systems and teams. However, there’s no team better suited to lead that charge than the marketing department.