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6 Seemingly Harmless Ways You're Sabotaging Your Proposals

Hubspot

6 Seemingly Harmless Proposal Mistakes. In fact, you must read the RFP multiple times and throughout the proposal process to make sure your response stays focused on the client's needs, and doesn't go off on unnecessary tangents. This is why so many proposals sound the same. 1) You don't know enough to make informed choices.

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Is your referral strategy tied to your differentiators?

Hinge Marketing

Differentiation is one of the most poorly understood pillars of professional services marketing. Many execs still believe differentiation isn’t a necessary component of overall growth. As easy as that initial undifferentiated climb can be, executing a sustained referral strategy when you aren’t differentiated can be near impossible.

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LinkedIn Responsiveness Drops 44% – Why Businesses Are Losing the Social Selling Game

Marketing Insider Group

The issue is that there’s no differentiation because the competitors are responding to similar needs with similar content and messaging and no one is creating a buying vision. This second meeting prompted the customer to ask for a proposal – which they signed! The focus should not be on “what keeps prospects up at night.”

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Customer Intelligence: The Secret Treasure from your Value Selling and Marketing Tools

The ROI Guy

And when value specialist, sales reps and channel partners use your Alinean Value Selling Tools in customer workshops and engagements, key profile and discovery data are collected, solution recommendations gathered and assessment results captured.

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Differentiated Marketing for Professional Services

Hinge Marketing

This strategy is called differentiated marketing. Differentiated Marketing Defined. In Differentiated Marketing a firm pursues multiple target markets using different marketing strategies for each. Here they use a differentiated marketing strategy. That is the essence of a differentiated marketing strategy.

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Building a Growth Strategy for the Undifferentiated Firm

Hinge Marketing

As easy as that initial undifferentiated climb can be, executing a sustained growth strategy when you aren’t differentiated can be near impossible. Differentiation is one of the most poorly understood pillars of professional services marketing. What is a differentiator? What a differentiator is not.

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SiriusDecisions Interview - From Pitching Products to Selling Value

The ROI Guy

Understanding buyers better and correlating the financial benefits that can be delivered with proposed solutions is key. However, there is still too much focus on product differentiation at a time when products are not too different from one another. You have to improve the conversation to get more effective.