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Improve Close Rates with a More Personal, Differentiated Sales Conversation That Stops Sales Drops

Marketing Insider Group

I learned that the firm: Experiences 12 to 18-month sales cycle on enterprise accounts with most efforts leading to RFP automatically reducing margin growth. Studies by Forrester Research revealed that salespeople who create a buying vision end up winning out against the competition about 74% of the time.

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3 Interactive Lead Qualification Tools for a Faster Sales Cycle

SnapApp

In the face of increasing goals and changing preferences of B2B buyers, sales and marketing teams alike are being forced to evolve in order to meet the needs of their prospects today. Better Qualification, Shorter Sales Cycles. What is Lead Qualification? Interactive PDFs.

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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. Provides consistent value across buying channels.

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Five ways business buying is changing: Ignore these at your peril

Biznology

Customers are changing, and so are the ways they buy. I’ve been struck recently by five glaring developments in business buying that you need to know about. The arrival of Millennials in business buying positions. Enterprise buying platforms mature. Consider these. Use of ratings and reviews sites in B2B.

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Industrial Marketing Strategy Must Be Documented for the Best Results

Tiecas

The hurdles in industrial marketing strategy for manufacturers can seem daunting because the long and complex sales cycles involve many stakeholders, from engineers to purchasing and executives. Each one has different content needs at different stages of their buying journey. focusing on those your buyers use most.

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When simplification goes wrong: Why unifying your platform and point solutions makes it harder for customers to buy.

Velocity Partners

So let’s say, hypothetically of course, that it’s late 2023, your revenue is down and there’s mounting pressure on you to increase sales. For complex B2B businesses, one common move is to try and make it easier for customers to buy by simplifying your offering. It’s certainly not a guaranteed path to speed up the sales cycle.

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B2B Sales Cycle: 4 steps to avoid the wasteful ‘no decision’

markempa

“But, if I’m a VP of Sales, I’ll be really peeved if you lose to ‘no decision,’ because you probably wasted my time as well as a lot of resources around the company in terms of getting help from manufacturing, customer support and finance — all to get to the point where nothing happened.”. No deal = broken sales cycle.