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6 winning strategies to shorten your B2B sales cycle

Martech

The B2B sales cycle is lengthy and complex. Sales isn’t easy. But after 15 years in relationship-based sales and management, I can tell there’s a solution to close deals 25% to 30% faster. But after 15 years in relationship-based sales and management, I can tell there’s a solution to close deals 25% to 30% faster.

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Top Social Selling Examples: 7 Mistakes To Avoid

Oktopost

Cost-effectiveness: Social selling tools bring significant lead generation and conversion results with minimal financial investment, it’s particularly advantageous for B2B businesses with painfully long sales cycles. Pushing your sales agenda Social media posts are not elevator sales pitches.

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The Big Shift: How the Economy, AI, and Privacy are Changing Everything We Know About Marketing

Act-On

As organizations tighten budgets and headcount, marketers tend to experience those downstream impacts as longer sales cycles and lower conversion rates. But when your prospects are moving more slowly throughout their buying journey, our marketing leaders advise their peers to prioritize full-funnel engagement. “We

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Single-Touch Attribution: Mapping Marketing ROI Back to Content

Contently

Marketers choose one interaction with a customer (often the first or the last) and credit the entire sale to that piece of content, regardless of how many touch points are created for the buyer’s journey. For example, a potential customer sees an ad for your product and signs up for a webinar. Great for smaller companies.

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Pipeline Velocity: Why It Matters, How To Measure It and How It Helps

InsightSquared

Unlike with running, for example, just because you’re the best athlete doesn’t mean your boat is moving the fastest. Within sales, moving plenty of high-value opportunities successfully through the pipeline is the goal of every sales VP. The “time” is the average duration of your sales cycle. Or, ideally, both!

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Top Social Selling Examples: 7 Mistakes To Avoid

Oktopost

Cost-effectiveness: Social selling tools bring significant lead generation and conversion results with minimal financial investment, it’s particularly advantageous for B2B businesses with painfully long sales cycles. Pushing your sales agenda Social media posts are not elevator sales pitches.

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The Demand Generation Strategy Guide

Zoominfo

While the two terms are somewhat synonymous, demand generation strategies span the entire funnel. On the other hand, while it is aided by top-of-funnel awareness that demand generation drives, lead generation is the process of converting sales-ready prospects into qualified pipeline. Demand Gen = Sales + Marketing.