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MARCH 1, 2016

This is Part One of a two-part blog about how organizations with a complex sales process can improve accuracy in lead/revenue projections. In January, 2016 Julie Schwartz of ITSMA stated: “It’s widely believed that 60-70% of the buying process is over before prospects want to engage with a salesperson.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

The panelists include: Ardath Albee – Marketing Interactions. Trish Bertuzzi – The Bridge Group: 2016 is the year we will modify our sales process to truly reflect how our buyers want to buy. Every interaction with them will be well thought out and deliver value. Miles Austin – Fill the Funnel, Inc. Matt Heinz – Heinz Marketing.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Per Julie Schwartz, senior vice president, research and thought leadership at marketing research, consulting and training firm ITSMA : “It’s widely believed that 60% to 70% of the buying process is over before prospects want to engage with a salesperson.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

57 – 90% of the buying process is complete before a sales rep needs to get involved. The team of experts includes: Ardath Albee, Marketing Interactions , CEO and Business Strategist. They only area in which alignment can be expected is in the messaging, the systems and the processes. Marketing and sales are aligned.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Is 60-70% of the buying process over before prospects want to engage with a salesperson? Is 60-70% of the buying process over before prospects want to engage with a salesperson? From Julie Schwartz, ITSMA, January, 2016: "It’s widely believed that 60-70% of the buying process is over before prospects want to engage with a salesperson.

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

In recent years, many sales reps have focused on getting new business, overlooking the importance of retaining the clients you already have, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Ardath Albee, a B2B marketing strategist and chief executive officer of Marketing Interactions Inc. Marketers are telling the story longer through the process.”.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

But good news: There is a process. The Solution is PROCESS. is to have something original (meaningful) to say about a way (a process) for people listening to get what it is that they want. is to have something original (meaningful) to say about a way (a process) for people listening to get what it is that they want.

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JULY 7, 2015

The Processing Instead of Qualifying Approach. This forces them to process leads as opposed to qualifying opportunities. I have no decision making authority, but I get a high lead score because I am on your website a lot and interact with your content, sometimes I even engage in conversation with your sales team. Kyle Porter.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

It's a sales AND marketing strategy supported by a process managed by people and enabled by technology. As with other technologies, automating a bad process just leads to more bad results. Ardath Albee, Marketing Interactions : I think it will take a while for marketers to develop the skills they need to pull it [ABM] off.

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JULY 17, 2013

It is expected that 85% of buyer-seller interactions will happen online through social media and video. Mainly because the customer won’t need to engage early in the sales cycle: 57% of the buying process is completed before connecting with a salesperson. Virtual interactions will replace face-to-face field visits.

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JUNE 8, 2012

Then develop a strategic approach that is grounded in that understanding and how your customers prefer to interact with you. Taking the time to learn about customers by listening in on their social interactions and understand their web behaviors will help determine where to invest.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

Jay Hidalgo is the President of The Annuitas Group, a firm that specializes in helping B2B companies develop a process-based approach to lead management. Unfortunately, too many marketers begin this process with the question, “Which automation tools should we look at?” Review your current process.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process. Let’s start by talking about agile processes. We can do that because the associates on our team have what it takes to have the interactions that generate quality leads.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

57 – 90% of the buying process is complete before a sales rep needs to get involved. The team of experts includes: Ardath Albee, Marketing Interactions , CEO and Business Strategist. Look for Part Two of this series – What percentage of the buying process is complete before sales needs to get involved? Cold calling is dead.

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JULY 14, 2015

A salesperson's view of the customer is often one of someone in the later stages of the buying process. When a buyer interacts with marketing, they are generally at a less evolved stage. Both perspectives are needed to craft an efficient end-to-end marketing and sales process.

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JUNE 28, 2012

These new buyers leave in their wakes a large data trail of where they’ve come from and what they know already, and this behavior presents an opportunity for marketers to “capture all that big data, process it, analyze it, turn it into insights, and hopefully intercept that buyer.” Measurement, metrics and ROI. Then Speak.

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MARCH 22, 2011

buying experience post, I searched for solutions, interacted with various web sites and engaged with some of the vendor reps, by email or phone. Poorly implemented, a heavily automated buying process can leave potential buyers cold, and non-buyers feeling like they are "not worthy." As I reported in my "Customer 2.0"

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Buyers are increasingly savvy and willing to shop around, and salespeople have to recognize how the landscape has changed and how the interaction with potential customers continues to evolve. I also shared statistics from the Corporate Executive Board that 71 percent of buyers still want sales involved early in the buying process.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

This current view of RPM—it’s really about how do you optimize the marketing and sales process.”. Build on Process Optimization (RPM 1.0) – Add the Sales Experience (RPM 2.0). It’s really about process optimization. He adds that a couple of different factors are motivating support of this approach: “I call RPM the 1.0

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APRIL 18, 2012

This awareness might signal a stage in their buying process, or it might signal that they have certain concerns or certain requirements. Trip notes, when talking about marketing automation, he uses the phrase, “marketing process management,” because it draws a parallel with previous process management cycles seen in the industry.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

ii Wikipedia: Customer relationship management (CRM) as a widely-implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. "Might Have Been to What Must Have Been: Counterfactual Thinking Creates Meaning" was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in January 2010.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Even when they try to address B2B and the tools and processes required, it’s a 30-minute lecture or 2 paragraphs in a text book (which I recently saw and they had most of it wrong). New buyer behavior, new ways to digitally interact and a keen quest for revenue ensure this role stays in place and may even expand.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Here are our guest marketing and sales bloggers along with their ViewPoint posts in 2011: Ardath Albee , CEO, Marketing Interactions eMarketing Expert Ardath Albee on the Limitations of a Lead Gen Mindset. Ken Murray , President, VanillaSoft Lead Generation and Appointment Setting—Know When to Pull the Trigger and Outsource.

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JULY 12, 2012

But I also think that social in my mind is part of the process. So I see it as a step in that process.” ” She also notes a challenge for marketers is how these interactions are measured and quantified as a step in the process. There are examples of companies that do it pretty well like Dell and Amazon Deals.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

I consider SiriusDecisions to be the gold standard when it comes to best practices in B2B marketing and sales processes. There are great technologies that allow us to serve relevant ads, content and other online interaction opportunities to the accounts and contacts we care about. That’s just part of being a smart marketer today.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

They just would not be able to understand our customers’ complex business challenges or handle direct interactions as well as we do.” ” This stance is understandable, and it’s one we hear frequently prior to engaging with clients to provide outsourced support for their strategic account initiatives.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Help me understand that you can guide me through the decision process because it’s hard making a decision. She notes that most prospects buy based on relationships and interactions they have with salespeople, and questions used to evaluate these relationships include the following: Are they adding value or not adding value?

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OCTOBER 7, 2017

I concur with Julie Schwartz’s (ITSMA) opinion on that: “It’s widely believed that 60% to 70% of the buying process is over before prospects want to engage with a salesperson. In fact, buyers perceive value in interacting with sales at every stage of the buying process.”. Are you listening?

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JULY 9, 2015

It works like this: Inbound SDRs individually process as many as 800 leads per month. They create a single workflow using a top of the funnel product that combines and processes their emails, calls, social touch points, and even includes accountability. Think of it as putting humans between inbound leads and the sales executives.

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OCTOBER 13, 2015

These programs also provide intelligence based on millions of sales leads and billions of sales interactions to help the sales rep know early on if the person is a likely buyer. The end solution to growing any company that wants a predictable and repeatable sales process is to ensure that 100% of all sales leads are managed and followed up.

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JULY 10, 2013

Carlos Hidalgo feels that “blogs are a great way to increase inbound traffic, engage buyers early on in the buying process, educate your target audience and share relevant information.” There is nothing so engaging on social as having a brand—in the form of an actual person—interact with you as a customer.” ( Ginger Conlon, DMNews ). "It''s

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

What if you treated the marketing planning process as if it were a proposal to a customer? This process allows for an unlimited set of new ideas to be input and addressed, with a specific process to, together, determine where the focus should be moving forward. Up-front planning. Offline relationship-building.

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APRIL 13, 2012

This perspective is forcing marketing to have more interaction with the sales organization. He has also worked with several companies wanting to take a more disciplined approach and build a stronger sales process who have a progressive VP of Sales playing that role. ” On a single executive leading marketing and sales.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

He notes that social media and mobile technology are related and are of particular interest in terms of management practice, adding, “Those are really changing the way managers are interacting with salespeople.”. Tablets: Fundamentally Redesigning Basic Aspects of the Sales Process.

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