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The Problem with Problems and Pain

Iannarino

Less than half of salespeople reach their quota and more than half of buyers don’t change, evidence that what we’re doing isn’t working. The manuscript is due to the publisher in three days: my contract calls for 65,000 words, a good length for the publisher based on what people will spend on a book. No more pushy sales tactics.

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How to Create a Sense of Urgency in the Mind of Your Customer

Cerebral Selling

One of the biggest reasons salespeople fail to create a sense of urgency in the mind of their customers is because they mistakenly focus too heavily on business cases and not nearly enough on their customer’s emotional motivators (i.e. “We spoke to the customer a number of times and identified their key issues.

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What We Lose In Our Focus On Tactics….

Partners in Excellence

There are techniques or tactics that have worked for these “experts.” When this happens, the “experts” have another tactic or technique, “Just do this…” Don’t get me wrong, sometimes these tactics are useful. Most of the time, these tactics are very narrowly focused.

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13 questions to diagnose and resolve declining organic traffic

Search Engine Land

Before we set out in search of any issues, let’s make sure that this isn’t just a tracking bug. Here’s an easy example of what that might look like for my company, using GSC’s Query filter functionality and RegEx: Are you seeing relatively flat non-brand traffic changes, but a big brand swing? URL : Which page(s) are losing traffic?

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The B2B case for retention marketing: 7 key tactics

Martech

Instead, B2B retention requires a laser focus on the core business, meeting customer expectations consistently, penetrating existing accounts further and monitoring any changes closely as signals for proactive outreach. But, at last, B2B marketers are beginning to grasp the importance of retention marketing for profit growth.

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Leading Your Sales Team Through a Tough Year-End

Cerebral Selling

We meet a couple of times each month to chat through all kinds of timely topics and on that day, we tackled strategies for motivating your team at year-end (something top of mind for everyone). Something that stood out to me was that regardless of industry, tenure, or leadership title, we were all going through the same thing.

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches, Locus of Value | Part 8

Iannarino

Like our clients, are approaches are organic, with some salespeople and organizations recognizing and responding to what their clients and prospective clients need from them and others not recognizing what or how much has changed. The legacy solution approach to sales finds value in the solution the salesperson provides.

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