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Have You Adapted to the Modern Sales Cycle?

Seismic

It’s no secret that the sales cycle has changed a lot over the past few decades. But what about sales reps and leaders who have not recognized the shift in technology and have not yet adapted to today’s sales cycle? How B2B buying has changed. Sales used to own the sales cycle.

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Sellers Have a New Challenge: To Ease an Increasingly Difficult Buying Journey

Mereo

A multi-national software provider’s sales cycles was running 12-18 months on average. When they engaged Mereo to address this, we conducted a win-loss analysis and discovered that the majority of the sales cycles were really about three to four months. Buyers do not need salespeople.

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Your Buyers Start Their Journey in the Dark Funnel, and You Need to Be There When It Happens

6sense

Having been privy to the lead management processes of hundreds of B2B organizations of every stripe, I would estimate that at least half have internal demand funnel (AKA waterfall) stages that combine stages of their sales process with what are really stages of the buyer journey. Your Funnel Is Not Their Journey.

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Does B2B Content Marketing Really Help Buyers Buy?

Digital B2B Marketing

In B2B marketing organizations, content marketing aims to help buyers buy. Content marketing provides the information buyers need to determine the type of solution they need, develop internal support for a change, create a short list of providers and address objections , all while positioning your company as a trusted resource.

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How to Solve the Top 5 Challenges of B2B Sales with Marketing

Kaon

In 2017, Sirius Decisions reported that the number one challenge for B2B salespeople was (and still is) “their inability to communicate value differentiation.” Marketers must turn toward interactive applications that aid in telling a complex story to help sales deliver these value propositions to prospects. Advertisements.

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How buyer behavior has evolved and what it means for sales

Seismic

In this new normal, buyer engagement consists of social selling, Zoom calls, and remote presentations. A buyer in 2021 starts their day at a desk, most likely in their home office. A buyer journey that previously started at an industry conference now begins on LinkedIn and consists of review site searches and case studies.

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B2B Marketing & Sales Insights from Lori Wizdo of Forrester Research

ViewPoint

I had the great the opportunity to interview Lori Wizdo , B2B marketing analyst at Forrester Research. Lori is a senior analyst with extensive marketing, sales, and operation experience in the information systems and software industries. Some sales professionals even believe that they can't get qualified leads from marketing.

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