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Marketing Automation: Like Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight

Webbiquity

The key role of sales is to provide that last 5% needed to reach a buying decision: the company’s differentiating value , or what pain the prospect will experience if they don’t buy the right product or service. There is a crying need for this. Prospective buyers are overloaded with information.

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How should B2B content differ for Business and Technical Decision Maker?

Ambal's Amusings

"Effective content for either technical or business buyers needs to address issues that keep them awake at night" Tom Pick's Bio. Those that manage innovation most effectively not only grow faster than their peers but are also more profitable and have stronger competitive differentiation. MarketingSherpa.

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Personalize, Challenge & Engage

The ROI Guy

In order to break the bias, you need to show how the costs of change are decisively outweighed by 2 times greater potential gains. Buyers need to clearly know what’s in it for them specifically. via quantifying the differentiating value and competitive cost advantages of your solution versus competitive offerings.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Value Selling Tools and the Buying Lifecycle

The ROI Guy

These buyers need a reason to engage – and delivering personalized, proprietary and consultative benchmarks, insight and advice is essential. Differentiate Example: ShoreTel TCO Tool The Unified Communications market is extremely competitive, and an emerging leader, ShoreTel, needed to demonstrate head-to-head cost advantages.

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Value of Assessment ROI & TCO Tools for Demand-Gen and Sales Enablement Campaigns

The ROI Guy

Leading B2B solution providers recognize that old sales and marketing techniques need to evolve to meet these new buyer demands. In 2009, Alinean and IDC updated annual research conducted since 2003 on the ROI from implementing business value tools. This resulted in 23% higher channel partner retention rates.

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