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Death of the B2B Sales Rep? An Interview with the Sales Enablement Lab

The ROI Guy

Their research indicates that when B2B buyers are making a purchase decision, they go 57% of the way through the buyer’s journey BEFORE engaging with a sales rep. For more complex purchases, sales rep engagement starts at the beginning of the journey even more - two-thirds of the time. Segmented pricing analyses, pocket listings).

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

In this session we discussed some important value selling and content marketing research for technology marketers, much of which extends to other B2B segments, with trends and advice you need to excel in 2011. In this blog post, I present a few of the key research metrics and advice.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. Rather than moving sequentially through a funnel, buyers actually work through four parallel streams to make a purchase decision.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

This is a big transition for firms whose marketing, sales-training and enablement tools, and wider organizational processes reflect outdated assumptions about purchasing in their markets. Rather than moving sequentially through a funnel, buyers actually work through four parallel streams to make a purchase decision.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 234: Q & A with Jon Miller @jonmiller

Heinz Marketing

And in B2B, there’s this asymmetry where a good purchase, a good decision, helps your company, but a bad decision can cost you your job. And then you can use that to then start to build really sophisticated audiences and segments. And none of the ABM platforms have those capabilities yet. That’s the first piece.