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Why You Need Full-Circle Sales at Every Stage in the Buy Cycle

The Pipeline

You can, by using every stage in the buy cycle to your advantage. What is the Buy Cycle? Here’s how you can incorporate full-circle sales at each stage in the buy cycle. Before a customer buys from you, she has to know you exist. Sooner or later, your customer will want to buy more. Repurchase.

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Focus on Buying Cycle to Shorten Sales Cycle

The Pipeline

The complete opposite of what it should be, we need to focus on buying cycles to shorten sales cycles. The post Focus on Buying Cycle to Shorten Sales Cycle appeared first on TiborShanto.com. The misses generally happen when the reason for the initiative was wrong from the start.

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CMO: Can You Rely on Sales for the New Product Release?

SBI Growth

Sales enablement alignment to the customers buying cycle is required. Misalignment can result in missing the buying cycle completely. A poor launch will waste R & D dollars. Lack of sales enablement will cause you to miss the number. CMO Resources CMO New Product Sales Enablement Sales Readiness'

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Why A Rising Win Rate Can Be a Bad Sign

SBI Growth

Instead, their buyer was engaging with sales later in their buying cycle. The frontline of the buying cycle is research and information gathering. In 2011, the Sales Executive Council reported the average B2B buyer engaged with a vendor 57% of the way through their buying cycle. The reason was simple.

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Prove ROI and Make the Business Case for Industrial Content Marketing

Speaker: Achinta Mitra, Founder and President, Tiecas Inc.

It's the plight of an industrial marketer: over the course of a 12-18 month long buying cycle, you make contact with a whole host of influencers who read your content.who may or may not actually work in purchasing. buy-in from your higher-ups. By the time the RFQ comes in, the original project might be completely different.

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Why A Sales Leader Should Care About Marketing Methodology

SBI Growth

These markets have natural buying cycles. Sometimes they are because of product life cycle, or evolving technology. Also, today’s Buyer is likely to resent your efforts to “push” them into buying. It lets the prospect’s natural buying cycle work for you instead of against you. You kiss a lot of pigs.

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What’s In Your Playbook?

Sales and Marketing Management

Teaser: If you believe the hype around studies that say customers feel they are through 60 percent (or more) of the buying cycle before engaging a salesperson, you could be giving your salespeople the wrong content for the wrong conversation. Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Corporate Visions, Inc.