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What is Value Selling and How to Generate Leads in Companies that Buy Value

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Unless you are the low-price leader, value selling is essential to the success of your business. It's a rather straightforward proposition to sell on price only. We are not the low-price leader.) We need to find value gaps that we can attach a price to, so that we can justify the benefit in terms of added value.

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Reaping the Value of Long-term Leads

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Often hot leads are really buying companies that have already been sold by another vendor. They’re looking to you for what is frequently called column fodder, or price comparison after-the-fact, to justify the purchase of a competitive offering. It costs only an incrementally small amount to nurture long-term leads to fruition.

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Long-Term Leads Demand Attention Now

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Often hot leads are really prospective buyers that have already been sold by another vendor. They’re looking to you for what is frequently called column fodder, or price comparison after-the-fact, to justify the purchase of a competitive offering. Leads at every stage of the buying cycle are essential for a healthy pipeline.

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How to Establish a Meaningful Lead Definition

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While most companies say they sell a solution, not a product or service, the message around what that offering is (made up of a product, price and delivery mechanism) is more likely than not described differently by every marketing and sales executive in the organization. Are we a niche vendor, consultant, or service aggregator?

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Jeff Pedowitz on The State of Marketing Automation

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Vendors are getting much better at making the applications easier to use and are producing templates that streamline adoption. Could marketing automation be a solution that requires a barrier to entry that might, in fact, call for more aggressive pricing rather than lower pricing? Can you provide a couple of examples?

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PowerViews with Anthony Iannarino: Changing Business Models

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The Big Lie That Drives Pay Per Performance Pricing Requests. Click to start video at this point — The fantasy that drives pay for performance pricing is that if they switch vendors they will get a better price and will have to put in less effort and will still get better results. Price Motivated Buyers.

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Beyond Financials: VC & IPO Due Diligence on Sales & Marketing Metrics

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Could the reasons why point to similar expense paths for the marketing automation vendors looking at going public? Significant market competition from established packaged and on-demand vendors. Extensive pricing pressure from competing services/products at lower prices. Customer needs can shift quickly.