Score More Sales

AUGUST 6, 2020

One of the reasons I did some heavy research seven years ago was that as a sales trainer and consultant, I could not show enough ROI for the time and money clients were investing in our work. During times when business can be happening slower, in a slowed economy, finding any way to speed things up is important.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 10, 2024

From identifying potential leads, to successfully sealing the deal, here's a comprehensive guide to winning tactics that make your sales cycle less complex. The post 7 Winning Strategies to Shorten Your B2B Sales Cycle appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 29, 2023

This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. Don’t Get Cute Neu sums it up simply: urgency is important in times of turmoil.

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The Pipeline

JULY 13, 2021

If you’re a sales professional with building pipeline accountability, there is a simple fact most want to, but can’t ignore. So, if you know the length of your sales cycle, and you should, you have the ability to predict the future.

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SBI Growth

JUNE 28, 2023

For salespeople, it has led to significant challenges in sales productivity. Uncertainty still prevails in today’s business environment. The results from our recent research illustrate the problem clearly.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

B2B sales can sometimes feel like a never-ending marathon, especially when those sales cycles stretch on and on.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

By failing to embrace interactive digital platforms, companies risk losing market share, elongating sales cycles and diminishing customer satisfaction, thereby jeopardizing their competitive position.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

If you have a sales cycle of several months or more, subsidize your salespeople until they are self-sufficient, and in early 2022 it takes 3 months to find a suitable candidate, you are screwed before you start! Hiring salespeople? What's the worst that can happen?

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The Pipeline

JULY 3, 2020

While in other parts of the sales cycle video may add to the experience, but it can also limit impact. Being approachable and easy to deal with is key to helping prospects open up and share their real objective. We are social creatures, so video seems like a natural. But it may not be when it comes to prospecting.

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The Pipeline

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

If your sales cycles is longer than 30 days, 2021 does not exist any more. ” You’ll quickly see that fries do go with that year-end. Fries With That Almost Anything. There are times to go after new things, and times to take stock of what you have or can get. Even more, a specific subset of your account base.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 17, 2021

The sales cycle is your opportunity to establish yourself as the subject matter expert. Most also-rans, pundits and sellers alike, feel giving a choice is the polite way not to “corner” a client. But when you what value you bring and how, it becomes much easier for all, to focus the conversation. Buyer Remorse.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The pressure to fill a role often causes sales management to hire the best of the pool of candidates instead of the right candidate. The difference is huge, especially if you have a complex sale, a long sales cycle, or a lot of competition. What's the difference you ask?

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The other possibility is that I’m the outlier where coaching only makes a difference for our clients, and if my team isn’t training and coaching sales managers to coach, it won’t work. Let’s do the math. Isn’t that a sad statement of the times?

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 12, 2024

Focus on a customer-first mindset and prioritize customer success in the sales cycle. Engage with the services team early in the deal cycle to ensure efficient technology deployment. Involve the customer success team in the sales cycle to provide implementation support and guidance.

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Steven Rosen

MARCH 10, 2024

CROs must drive this evolution by equipping sales managers with the skills and confidence to coach effectively, ensuring they can navigate their teams through the early complexities of the sales cycle with the same zeal as the closing stages.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

When the world returns to normal, events may resume, but video engagement will become a new normal that will continue to hold prominence in the sales cycle. AI for Video Will Enter a New Dimension. As video becomes more important as a communication medium, AI within the market will enter a new dimension.

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The Pipeline

JULY 9, 2019

Every journey has a beginning, middle and an end, and this is true for a buying cycle and sales cycle. And while it may work for Zen and motorcycles , in sales, it is not about the journey but the destination, the win. Each day is a building block of the sales cycles you’re currently travelling.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a lead intelligence tool, Uplead provides both sales and market intelligence to gain insights into companies and individuals. HubSpot Sales Hub. HubSpot Sales Hub drives sales team success by providing a suite of selling solutions. Lusha’s platform provides insights for sales reps with lead-capture and mining tools.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When resistance appears, it does not matter if the sales process, methodology, tactics and strategies are good or even great, unless salespeople are equally great at first lowering the resistance.” What might the whipped cream equivalent be for the resistance you might encounter later in the sales cycle?

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 2, 2018

A long sales cycle exacerbates the problem. That’s why I resonated with this post: “ New Research Unveils 5 Trends Shaping the Future of Sales ” by Lynne Zaledonis, VP at SalesCloud, Product Marketing at Salesforce. Reps need patience and proven strategies to keep deals going. Technology was supposed to make our lives easier.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

When sales and marketing teams align properly on virtual events, the sales cycle can be shortened and smarter decisions can be made about who to target, which can lead to positive revenue outcomes. The post How Marketing and Sales Teams Work Hand in Hand to Succeed appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Shorter sales cycles – Sales cycles are already long for B2B organizations, and automated emails serve as a virtual sales rep to nurture them. Automated emails encourage leads to move from the product research phase into the buying cycle. How Do You Set up Email Automation?

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 11, 2021

Given the uncertain times we’re living in, ineffective sales pipeline management can easily grow from being something that holds your business back to actively endangering it. COVID-19 has affected best practices for lead generation, follow-up, sales quotas, and sales cycle length. Qualification (or The Discovery Call).

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

You can use the same technique in your sales cycle. The art of bluffing will never be the primary tool in your set, but it can add a little fire to your sales cycle. Learn how your prospect behaves, and use this insight to determine your bluffing style.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Getting personal – B2B sales and marketing will move closer to the B2C model of personalized selling. B2B companies are increasing their revenue intelligence by analyzing B2B buyer data to address a more complex sales cycle and are tailoring the sales experience by leveraging AI and data analysis technology.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

Step 2: Clean up your sales process. Defining your sales process is a necessary foundation for your forecasting. That includes evaluating your sales cycles and conversion rates. At the same time, are they tuning into prospects’ buying signals to carry more sales over the finish line? the date a rep secures a demo).

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

During purchasing meetings, market intelligence helps sales reps show prospects new intel about the buyer’s business, or competition that they might not know already. How Can I Optimize Intelligence in the Sales Cycle? In the B2B realm, sales cycles are much longer, and purchasing decisions involve multiple stakeholders.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 30, 2021

The company's perspective: The top of the funnel is easier to handle than a full-blown quota and responsibility for an entire sales cycle. Did you ever notice that companies that utilize the Business Development Rep (BDR) role put their youngest, most inexperienced new hires in that role?

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Mr. Inside Sales

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This tells you how cooperative your prospect is, and so how cooperative they will be throughout the sales cycle. If they will, however, then you know there is a legitimate chance they are interested. Open the email when they get it. Blow you off with another objection. Allow you to set a definite follow up appointment.

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The Pipeline

MARCH 12, 2021

Longer than most sales cycles, certainly longer than the 9-to-18-month effort required by the entire organization. Add to that, the effort to overhaul the sales process while continuing to fly the plane. Data is the rear-view mirror, thinking outside the limits of the data machine is crucial to winning in the future.

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