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The Empathy Paradox: Why Even Customer-Centric Marketers Fail at Understanding Customers

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In today’s AI-driven, data-saturated marketing world, everyone claims to be “customer-centric.” Dr. Johannes Huttula conducted research with 480 experienced marketing managers – professionals who spent their careers trying to understand customers. This creates THE paradox for marketers. The results?

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Professional Communities of Influence are a Winning B2B Growth Strategy

Vision Edge Marketing

B2B marketing and sales can be challenging due to competitors, the economy, and supplier management processes, to name just a few contributing factors. Entering New Markets or Launching New Solutions : To grow, many of our customers depend on launching new solutions or entering new markets.

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5 Essential Sales Enablement Best Practices to Speed Up Sales Cycles

Act-On

In a perfect world, sales and marketing would be tightly aligned , working toward the same goals and achieving the best possible results. But marketers and sales teams know this isn’t always easy. From this challenge, sales enablement was born. Moreover, 36% say that personas contributed to shorter sales cycles.

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The Importance of Integrating CRM with Marketing Automation

Marketing Insider Group

CRM and marketing automation integration is a well-defined process that combines and improves the alignment between marketing and sales activities. It lets businesses automate prospecting, data entry, customer management, and other time-consuming business operations. Image source What is Marketing Automation?

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The 5 Stages of Account-Based Marketing — and How to Win Them All

The benefits of account-based marketing are clear: internal alignment, shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates. And yet only 43% of marketers are completely satisfied with the quality of their data. But none of this is possible without the most important element of a successful ABM program: good data.

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How to Accelerate B2B Sales Cycle to Close Deal Faster

Only B2B

Yet, many organizations still face the same obstacle: sales cycles that drag on for months and conversion rates that simply don’t match the quality of their pipeline. Where B2B Sales Break Down Closing a deal in B2B is rarely straightforward. This ensures sales focuses energy where it matters most.

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Streamlining Your Sales Process: A Guide to the B2B Marketing Funnel

Webbiquity

What are the best tactics to use in your B2B marketing funnel to efficiently grow your sales? It starts with marketing plans that are specific to your business model and target audience’s requirements. Here’s a quick review of the basics followed by seven strategic steps you can use to take your sales to the next level.

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Three Simple Ways To Increase ROI From Your Current Sales Process Immediately!

Speaker: Donald Kelly, Founder & Chief Sales Evangelist at The Sales Evangelist LLC

The average B2B sales cycle can take anywhere from 3 to 9 months to close, depending on the complexity of the product or service being sold. Now add the fact that we're facing a global pandemic and it could add an extra 2 - 3 months or more to a sales cycle. How to tap into growing markets for new sales opportunities.