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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. Rather than moving sequentially through a funnel, buyers actually work through four parallel streams to make a purchase decision.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. Rather than moving sequentially through a funnel, buyers actually work through four parallel streams to make a purchase decision.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 234: Q & A with Jon Miller @jonmiller

Heinz Marketing

And in B2B, there’s this asymmetry where a good purchase, a good decision, helps your company, but a bad decision can cost you your job. That asymmetry, I think, ultimately leads buyers to really have fear and other kind of… Negative emotions dominate the B2B buying process. You have to know what you’re trying to do.