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5 Essential Sales Enablement Best Practices to Speed Up Sales Cycles

Act-On

In a perfect world, sales and marketing would be tightly aligned , working toward the same goals and achieving the best possible results. But marketers and sales teams know this isn’t always easy. From this challenge, sales enablement was born. What do you hope to accomplish through sales enablement?

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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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28 Effective Tips for Shortening Your Sales Cycle

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The B2B selling process is slow but steady. On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Today we’re sharing tips and tricks to shorten the sales cycle, broken down by stage.

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Drawn-Out Sales Cycles: What to Do When Selling Stalls

Zoominfo

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. Cross-Functional Alignment Your go-to-market strategy depends on alignment.

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Intent Signal Data 101

B2B buyers spend just 15% of their time interacting with brands before making a purchase decision” (Gartner). That means B2B marketers miss out on 85% of a buyer’s journey! How can B2B marketers reach active buyers sooner in the sales cycle and influence their purchase decisions?

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B2B Reads: The Power of Sales and Marketing Alignment, Traits and Mindsets of Successful Salespeople, AI Across the Sales Cycle & More

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. Truth Bomb: Salespeople All Look Alike to B2B Buyers By Joanne Black You have a choice.

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5 Ways to Incorporate Video into the B2B Sales Cycle

Heinz Marketing

By Lauren Bensussen , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. People are pestered with hundreds of emails entering their inbox daily, and that number skyrockets for business professionals in the B2B space. But marketing emails aren’t pointless if they’re eventually opened and at least skimmed through.

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Three Simple Ways To Increase ROI From Your Current Sales Process Immediately!

Speaker: Donald Kelly, Founder & Chief Sales Evangelist at The Sales Evangelist LLC

The average B2B sales cycle can take anywhere from 3 to 9 months to close, depending on the complexity of the product or service being sold. Now add the fact that we're facing a global pandemic and it could add an extra 2 - 3 months or more to a sales cycle. How in the world are you supposed to survive as a seller?

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New Ways to Reach, Influence, and Close More Deals with Intent Data

Speaker: Ardath Albee, B2B Marketing Strategist and CEO of Marketing Interactions

Intent data can help B2B marketers reach active buyers earlier, influence their journey, and close more deals. While intent data can be game-changing for gaining attention, its true superpower is driving purposeful engagement toward purchase while reducing sales cycles and costs.