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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

Selling has always been more about the buyer than the seller. For a century, buying has been framed in terms of moving a prospect from Awareness to Interest to Desire to Action (AIDA). The AIDA model and its variants are the basis for sales funnels at many B2B firms. Aligning buying and selling is a process, not a one-shot deal.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

xiQ

Selling has always been more about the buyer than the seller. For a century, buying has been framed in terms of moving a prospect from Awareness to Interest to Desire to Action (AIDA). The AIDA model and its variants are the basis for sales funnels at many B2B firms. Aligning buying and selling is a process, not a one-shot deal.

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How to Build a Powerful Marketing Funnel (Step by Step)

Single Grain

Even after a customer has made a purchase, your funnel can continue with cross-sells and upsells. AIDA is a classic marketing framework that represents a four-stage content creation funnel. We’ll use the slightly simpler AIDA stages for our builder example. It stands for Attention, Interest, Desire and Action.