LSA Global

APRIL 26, 2023

Top B2B Sellers How do top B2B sellers do it? Winning Bigger Deals The fundamental answer to the success of top B2B sellers is not that they work harder; it’s that they work smarter. They consistently focus on the major strategic accounts and key sales and marketing activities that matter most. Is there a secret sauce?

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B2B Sales Tools Training 36

LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The B2B Sales Hunters vs Farmers Sales Model The role of B2B sales hunter vs sales farmer has been discussed in business sales training workshops for decades. Typically, B2B sales hunters focus on new customer acquisition while B2B sales farmers are responsible for nurturing and growing current accounts.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 21, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, effective marketing plays a pivotal role in driving success. However, many entrepreneurs and companies find themselves grappling with poor marketing results and a lack of return on investment (ROI). The impact of marketing consulting services on ROI are hard to ignore.

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ROI Marketing Consulting B2B 52

Henry DeVries

JANUARY 26, 2021

Customers who relied on salespeople to share information now have it at their fingertips through the internet. What was once a differentiator for companies has now become a commodity.

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B2B Strategy Strategy Strategy& 77

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

How one company created a “universal commercial engine” to replace both divisions.

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B2B Sales Marketing Engineering 72

The Fearless Marketer

APRIL 19, 2021

Someone in my current Marketing Action Group shared this: “I believe that bringing all my marketing into alignment is critical at this point. Marketing alignment would be having a marketing message, marketing materials, website, presentation, etc. Would this be correct?”. How important is this? Cheers, Robert.

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Marketing B2B Tools Sales 71

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. Meanwhile, 84% of B2B buyers are now starting the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations are influencing more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. First, three out of four B2B buyers rely on social media to engage with peers about buying decisions.

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B2B Sales Media Guidelines 67

Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Ever since the start of the pandemic, an increasing number of B2B buyers have shifted online to find, hire, and work with external consultants. Can consultants use consulting marketplaces to find new clients and opportunities? Many consulting marketplaces have emerged as a way to connect buyers and consultants.

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B2B Consulting Marketing 174

The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 2, 2020

I’ve been at the humungous business conference, Social Media Marketing World since Sunday. Well, since my audience and focus has always been on professional service business (mostly B2B), I’ll share my perspective. All of these marketing activities are passive. And I’ll start with the bad news first. Same thing. Great ideas!

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Media Report Marketing B2B 62

Jerry Fletcher

JUNE 27, 2020

Suddenly marketing gals and guys are debating whether to listen or lead and how the pandemic reaction will affect that going forward. Consultant Marketing is different…or is it? We know from 17 years of research that Consultant Marketing is not like traditional product marketing. Then a pandemic got in the way.

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Marketing Consulting B2C B2B 64

1 to 1

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the B2B space, where relationships reign supreme, sales organizations found effective and efficient ways to conduct business with a digital-first approach that’s efficient, effective, and won’t go away any time soon. B2B sellers understand they need to change yet face challenges to creating successful digital-first sales experiences.

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B2B Sales ROI B2C 29

Jerry Fletcher

JUNE 20, 2020

You can do so much with words that some e-mail experts in Business to Business (B2B) situations prefer all text to templates full of color and photos and illustrations. In B2B color brochures are preferred whereas In B2C one or 2 colors is well accepted for transmittal. And so it goes.

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Marketing Consulting B2C B2B 59

The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Marketing your professional services is a lot like a jigsaw puzzle. Well, for many, many years I’ve worked at deciphering the marketing jigsaw puzzle. Below are the five key pieces to the marketing jigsaw puzzle. The post Decoding the Marketing Puzzle appeared first on Action Plan Marketing. No real challenge.

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Marketing B2B System Groups 62

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

But B2B companies often are disappointed with their results. Early user programs are critical to the success of products. The problem is the way they are designed and implemented. This article provides a process that can make a big difference in helping companies do a better job of choosing early users and harvesting valuable information.

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B2B Productivity Company Sales 79

Consulting Success

APRIL 5, 2021

This is one of the things that Shiv Narayanan learned on his way to generating $2 million in consulting revenue for his B2B SaaS startup. Saying no to revenue is the hardest thing to do, but sometimes you have to do it in order to build a more sustainable business. The founder and CEO of.

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B2B Consulting Company Marketing 154

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 12, 2020

I also want to talk about the difference between B2C offers and B2B offers. Meaning a B2B business is a business that's positioned to help an organization. Let me first get us on the same page on content marketing and all the pieces and how they all fit together. The reality is content marketing is not dead.

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B2C B2B Consulting How To 156

Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2018

The cartoon of business-to-business (B2B) buyers depicts gray-haired executives and purchasing agents in meetings, on the phone and lunching with their vendors. But along with fax machines and long golf games, these features of B2B life have all but disappeared due to the astonishing change in technology over the past two decades.

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B2B Bain Research Study 28

1 to 1

MAY 6, 2014

A few years ago while attending Dreamforce, I had a few meetings with executives from marketing automation companies who shared different approaches to engaging with B2B customers and prospects. a LinkedIn post shared by a marketing VP for a life sciences company) that can then be used for relevant messaging.

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B2B B2C Tools Data 46

Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2023

Research shows they prefer interactions that fuel their psychological needs — even if they require more time or cost more money.

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B2B Research Sales Marketing 63

Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

As content marketing explodes, so too, does the volume of noise. To date, there haven’t been many great examples of humor in B2B. Marketo did this successfully with its Big Activity Coloring Book : “Introducing the Big Marketing Activity Coloring Book!…30 30 pages of pure, unadulterated marketing activity fun!”

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Marketing B2B Video Banking 92

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. A growing number of B2B companies are using data and analytics to add services that bring new elements of value to customers, and in some cases new sources of revenue.

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B2B Chemicals Engineering Data 28

BCG

APRIL 5, 2016

Some longer-established companies have adopted these techniques, too, both offensively to gain a competitive advantage in key markets and defensively to fend off threats from disruptive competitors. We have uncovered five lessons that companies in any B2B industry can learn from and adapt to their industry’s particular conditions.

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B2B Boston Consulting Group Sales Study 40

Comatch

APRIL 3, 2023

1) Identify an appropriate platform Social media has revolutionized the way B2B buyers navigate their purchasing journey. According to research from Gartner , B2B buyers only spend 17% of their time meeting with sales representatives when considering a purchase.

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Media B2B Development Sales 52

Tsavo Neal

JULY 3, 2020

Every week, I write about web design, copywriting, and digital marketing for independent consultants and small firms. What is the role of SEO in B2B marketing? The role of SEO in B2B marketing is to drive traffic to your website. How do you “optimize” your B2B content? Your marketing doesn’t end with SEO.

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B2B Engineering Advertising Sales 78

Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

E-commerce, mobile commerce, and social media platforms have enabled businesses to better sculpt marketing and customer support initiatives and customer services. By helping B2B companies gather better data on their customers, AI will help them catch up with their B2C peers. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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B2B B2C Sales Data 28

1 to 1

JULY 12, 2019

Marketers, if your B2B website was on a “first date,” would it get a second one? Many B2B websites would make poor conversation partners—their main focus is about what they do, they don’t relate to the other person, and they share dull stories that are nearly identical.

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B2B How To Sales Research 22

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. A similar sequence has happened with B2B buying. See More Videos > See More Videos > Surely B2B purchasing hasn’t become that bad. A marketing automation company creates bespoke presentations.

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B2B Travel Benchmarking Sales 34

The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 13, 2020

What is the purpose of marketing? Well, not if you’re a B2B Professional. The purpose of B2B marketing is to get meetings with prospective clients. What’s the difference and what does that mean for your marketing? The purpose of marketing is to get meetings with prospective clients.

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Meeting B2B Productivity Marketing 62

The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Your marketing message communicates to the world what your business is about. And your LinkedIn profile is the perfect place to both develop and spotlight your most focused marketing message. This is the fourth of five articles about the 5 Pillars of Marketing, my marketing model that helps get your marketing on track.

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Marketing B2B Media Course 54

Prudent Pedal

OCTOBER 8, 2019

I’m releasing a new Professional Services Marketing Assessment. Leaders who seek me out are frustrated with their marketing results. Firm leaders almost always think their “marketing problem” is a “Marketing function” problem. Lacks understanding of the complex B2B buying cycle.

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Marketing B2B Film Sales 45