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Simplifying your martech stack: From pipeline efficiency to brand affinity

Martech

Only 5% of our market , is ready, willing and able to consider buying our product. In reality, B2B buying committees have grown in size and different members will be at different stages of the buying cycle. If they’re in a buying cycle at all. However, this ignores the majority of potential customers.

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What Your Buyers Think About You (And What You Can Do About It)

Trade Press Services

Chitwood provides a foundation for this understanding by acknowledging that all customers make five buying decisions in a precise, psychological order: About the salesperson About the company About the product or service About the price About the time to buy Decision #1: About the salesperson. Decision #5: About the time to buy.

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A Conversation on 7 Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011

Tony Zambito

  My recent post entitled Seven Buyer and Sales Trends to Watch in 2011 is one of those instances for me personally.    That is, the usual forms of this is who we are, here is our product introduction, what features and benefits we have, and you can all guess the rest.  Image via Wikipedia. write a comment…….write

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B2B Sales Cycle: 4 steps to avoid the wasteful ‘no decision’

markempa

No deal = broken sales cycle. He says the escalating number of “no decisions” is a sure sign that sales cycles are broken. If a sales professional says, ‘I submitted a proposal,’ and your customer says, ‘I got a price quote,’ that’s a sign of misaligned perceptions and selling-buying cycles,” says Dickie. warns Dickie.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B.

The ROI Guy

Monday, December 06, 2010 Predictions for 2011: The End of B2B Sales & Marketing as We Know It? At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. The Death of a Salesman?

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Selling is Easy! (If You Get the Right Support)

Tomorrow People

But pick up any book on selling written before 2011 and there will be lots of chapters about ‘getting past the gatekeeper’ and ‘overcoming objections’ etc. Your goal is to aid these interested people’s buying decisions by becoming a useful resource about how to solve their business and personal pains. Outbound cold calling.

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Selling is Easy! (If You Get the Right Support)

Tomorrow People

But pick up any book on selling written before 2011 and there will be lots of chapters about ‘getting past the gatekeeper’ and ‘overcoming objections’ etc. Your goal is to aid these interested people’s buying decisions by becoming a useful resource about how to solve their business and personal pains. Outbound cold calling.