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5 Essential Sales Enablement Best Practices to Speed Up Sales Cycles

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With these goals in mind, you can more effectively focus on the strategies and tools that help you get there. Sales enablement best practices: Know thy audience … define buyer personas When improving sales enablement, always start with your audience by building personas. And who doesn’t want shorter sales cycles, right?

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28 Effective Tips for Shortening Your Sales Cycle

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On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Sales reps can also pinpoint specific obstacles and make improvements with a stage-focused sales strategy.

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Drawn-Out Sales Cycles: What to Do When Selling Stalls

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This often leads to larger buying committees, more avenues for approval, and elongated buying cycles. Vendr, a SaaS buying platform, recently found that sales cycles for software have settled at about 46 days, a 40% increase since 2020. The good news is that nearly every step of the sales process can be automated in some way.

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Does account-based marketing work for long sales cycles?

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Does account-based marketing work for long sales cycles? Understanding the Role of Account-Based Marketing in Long Sales Cycles Account-based marketing (ABM) has gained significant popularity in recent years as a highly effective strategy for targeting and engaging key accounts. This is where ABM comes into play.

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Intent Signal Data 101

How can B2B marketers reach active buyers sooner in the sales cycle and influence their purchase decisions? Intent signal data can help. “B2B buyers spend just 15% of their time interacting with brands before making a purchase decision” (Gartner). That means B2B marketers miss out on 85% of a buyer’s journey!

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What Is a Sales Cycle and How Do You Optimize It for Consistent Sales?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

It’s no different in sales — only instead of game rules, you use a sales cycle to make sure you’re following the right steps at the right time. Let’s take a look at the stages of a sales cycle, and how you can use it to secure regular deal wins. What you’ll learn: What is a sales cycle?

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Long sales cycles, the #1 enemy of SEO attribution

Kevin Indig

Long sales cycles (+90 days) are the biggest enemy of attribution models, often to the detriment of channels like SEO that play an important role in early touches. Companies with long sales cycles often either sell B2B enterprise software (SaaS), high-priced products (e-commerce) or long-term commitments (consumer).

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New Ways to Reach, Influence, and Close More Deals with Intent Data

Speaker: Ardath Albee, B2B Marketing Strategist and CEO of Marketing Interactions

Intent data can help B2B marketers reach active buyers earlier, influence their journey, and close more deals. While intent data can be game-changing for gaining attention, its true superpower is driving purposeful engagement toward purchase while reducing sales cycles and costs. However, not all intent data is created equal.

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Using Connected Device Data to Improve Sales

Speaker: Charlie Isaacs, CTO for Customer Connection at Salesforce

There is an incredible opportunity for companies to take data from connected devices and use it to improve your sales pipeline, make your reps more effective, and even (with the help of AI) handle entire portions of the sales process for you! Come away with actionable insights for your entire sales cycle.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals.