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What Is a Sales Pipeline and How Do You Build One? A Complete Guide

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Think of it as the conversation that happens in a prospect’s mind as the steps of the sales process progress, underscoring their level of engagement and “buy in.” Why is a sales pipeline important? This results in missed sales targets and lost revenue — not to mention a frustrated sales team. How do sales pipelines work?

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Manufacturers, It’s Time to Take Back Control in the Buying Cycle

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

This change has created a new reality for business buyers and manufacturers alike who are both becoming digitally savvy. The Sales and Marketing Blind Spot. As much as two-thirds of B2B deals are lost before a formal request for proposal (RFP) process even begins. The result? Not a Campaign, But a Process.

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What is the Most Valued Content for IT Decision Makers?

The ROI Guy

Today’s buyer is more empowered than ever before, leveraging content from the Internet, discussion groups and social media to take charge of the purchase decision-making process. The question was posed as a key portion of IDC’s annual 2013 IT Buyer Experience Study , surveying over 200 executive decision makers worldwide.

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SiriusDecisions and the “No Decision” Challenge

The ROI Guy

As a result, your prospect is more apt to stick with the status quo – their legacy solution and processes - versus moving forward with your proposal. Buyer’s are struggling just to “keep the lights on”, much less considering and implementing new solutions. Stalled deals – A good number of purchase decisions get delayed.

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Ready for Continued Frugalnomics? Cutting Costs Remains Top Buyer Priority for 2012

The ROI Guy

Frugalnomics Requires New B2B Sales and Marketing Strategies Over the past several years we have seen the impact of Frugalnomics on B2B sales and marketing, making it more difficult to connect, engage and sell to more overloaded, skeptical and frugal buyers.

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Sales Enablement: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for 2013

The ROI Guy

Michael Gerard, VP of IDC ‘s CMO and Sales Advisory Practice indicates in a recent presentation that it now takes more than 650 targets just to get one deal, and each deal is taking longer to close than before, some 19 months for the marketing and sales cycle to complete. This is a good news / bad news story from IDC.

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Gartner says Buyers Have Changed. IT Sales and Marketing Strategies Are Lagging

The ROI Guy

If this is the case, Gartner’s latest research indicates that many IT Sales and Marketing leaders may end up on the “endangered species” list, unless some serious realizations and changes occur sooner versus later. According to a new research report, IT buyers have dramatically changed.

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