Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 15, 2025

Last week, I noticed that people are still using this archaic and overly simplistic sales qualifying process, and too many are still writing about the benefits of BANT (Acronym for Budget, Authority, Need, Timing). The first page of this Google search reveals 10 articles written about BANT in 2024 alone.

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Salesmate

JUNE 5, 2020

Apart from this, salespeople can easily visualize the stage of prospects inside their sales process. Doing so, your sales team members can easily understand the actions they must take for pushing the deals into the next stage. Sales pipeline also allows you or the sales managers to check the deal stagnancy.

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Pipeline Sales Qualified Lead Top of Funnel Leads 120

Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Let’s dive into six areas that show how Gong’s game-changing software can help Julien perform pipeline audits with confidence, provide more accurate forecasting and close deals faster. BANT – Budget, Authority, Need, Timing.

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Gong.io

JANUARY 5, 2019

Here’s a simple (and mega-helpful) flowchart from our friends at Lucid Software to help you understand how the SPIN Selling sales methodology works: How to Know If It’s Right For You. NEAT Sales Methodology. BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, Timing).

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