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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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Outbound Lead Generation: How to Build an Efficient Growth Machine

Zoominfo

Every business dreams of a pipeline of well-qualified inbound leads that land in their sales team’s laps. Modern GTM teams build on a foundation of high-quality data, leveraging buyer intent data and other advanced signals to begin their outreach when prospects are ready to learn more. First, you need the right people.

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Top Social Selling Examples: 7 Mistakes To Avoid

Oktopost

The B2B sales process has changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated. This digital shift has welcomed a new era in sales: social selling. However, since social selling is a relatively new concept, few sales teams manage to get it right.

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The Secrets to Virtual Selling for Financial Services

Vidyard

Contents 1. Where to Use Video in the Sales Cycle 4.1 Top of the Funnel 4.2 Further Down the Funnel 4.2.1 Post-Sale 5. The use of video in customer and sales conversations and prospecting has increased by 93% since 2019. Response rates for financial services sales emails are at an all-time low.

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Email Open Rates: Which Benchmarks Matter Most?

Outreach

Email marketing is a core element of the buyer journey, serving as one of the earliest touchpoints in the sales cycle (at Outreach, we refer to the optimized series of such touchpoints as Sequences). As a result, most enterprises consider a high email open rate a barometer for gauging campaign success.

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86% of marketers say it’s time to rethink nurtures!

Vidyard

The first ever banner ad earned a 44% click-through rate —that’s a story almost every marketer knows, but few are aware that the first marketing email makes that look like a vanity metric. 86 percent of marketers rate their lead nurture campaigns as “average or worse” according to a Demand Gen Report.

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Three Stats to Track for Sales Funnel Analysis

KEO Marketing

The sales funnel is the process that a prospect goes through from initial contact to final conversion. The “location” in the funnel corresponds to the stage of the sales process of the prospect. As a sales opportunity moves down the funnel, time to close decreases and the probability of the sale occurring increases.