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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. The post Improve Close Rates with a More Personal, Differentiated Sales Conversation That Stops Sales Drops appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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50 Common Sales Objections and How to Handle them Effectively

Lead Forensics

“We have a long sales cycle.” Offer ongoing support and resources throughout the sales cycle to keep them engaged and moving forward. Objections: Value Proposition & Differentiation 39. “We have to go through a formal RFP (Request for Proposal) process.”

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How Your B2B Content Programs Can Better Support ABM Throughout The Complete Buyer’s Journey

PathFactory

It does not support sales in driving conversations and sales cycles with accounts that are stuck in status quo or in the funnel. Teach for differentiation — Sharing articles, whitepapers, and case studies isn’t sufficient. There is no competitive differentiation. Intent but unengaged. Urgency is not created.

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

Biznology

Christine Crandell brought this to my attention recently, with examples like Marriott embracing the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals 2030 as a source of competitive differentiation, and how event planners are routinely making venue carbon footprints and greenhouse gas emissions an evaluating criterion in property selection.

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50 Common Sales Objections and How to Handle them Effectively

Lead Forensics

“We have a long sales cycle.” Offer ongoing support and resources throughout the sales cycle to keep them engaged and moving forward. Objections: Value Proposition & Differentiation 39. “We have to go through a formal RFP (Request for Proposal) process.”

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Account-Based Customer Marketing – How to Stop the Sales Drop with Stronger Existing Customer Growth

Marketing Insider Group

But, sales and marketing’s focus should have always been balanced between new and existing customer as sales cycles in existing accounts are at least 50% shorter than new accounts. This is a huge savings in cost of sales and marketing investment in return for greater profitability and revenue growth.

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Content Is The Key To Social Selling Success

Marketing Insider Group

The best social selling teams and representatives are journalists and curators; delivering the right content to the right customer on the right channel at the right time of the sales cycle. Many are self-educating early in the sales cycle. This is the secret sauce to beat and differentiate yourself from the competition.

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