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.

B2B 70

B2B Sales Media Guidelines 70

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.

B2B 28

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. These included tools aimed at gathering and acting on social information that might generated by a target customer or an active account (e.g.

B2B 46

B2B B2C Tools Data 46

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.

Media 52

Media B2B Development Sales 52

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. There's the low and the high-ticket offer, but there's a big difference as it relates to the monetization path, as it relates to a B2B or B2C business.

B2C 156

B2C B2B Consulting How To 156

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

Like this manufacturer, many business-to-business (B2B) companies have a major opportunity to improve their standing on price. Incentive plans benefit from following a few principles: Clarify the objectives — be they revenue growth, share gains, margin gains, or others — and the behaviors that will help meet the objectives.

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B2B Survey Company Sales 39

LSA Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

net promoter score This global and growing Integrated Technology Company wanted a customized sales management training program to meet the unique needs of their marketplace. The Sales Manager Training Workshop results were: 98% job relevance 98.4% satisfaction 145% knowledge gain 96.5% satisfaction 145% knowledge gain 96.5%

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Sales Training Training Company 36

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Decision making at big B2B companies is often skewed by anecdote and myth: A worried report from the most vocal salesperson about a competitor’s latest move; a customer complaint that happened to be fielded by a senior executive. That’s complicated at any B2B business. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

B2B 28

B2B Sales Data Automotive 28

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

B2B buyers have slowly been conditioned to expect the same personalized treatment that they get while shopping on Amazon. They’ve followed social media threads to prepare for the face-to-face meeting long before it happened. people are involved in purchasing decisions, on average. larger deals sourced through social platforms.

B2B 28

B2B Sales Media Survey 28

LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

According to Accenture, 80% of B2B customers will change providers at least every two years if their expectations aren’t understood and met. Agree Upon Your Big Bets to Meet Sales Growth Targets Now is the time to agree upon the two or three big bets that you and the sales team are going to make in order to hit your growth targets.

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Sales Strategy Strategy Strategy& 36

LSA Global

OCTOBER 10, 2023

net promoter score This fast growing High Tech Company wanted to design and deliver a customized sales management training program to ensure that sales managers and leaders could consistently lead their sales teams to win bigger B2B client deals faster as they move to a SaaS business model. satisfaction 134% knowledge gain 95.6%

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Sales Training Training Company 36

LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2020

There is no doubt that your target B2B buyers who control the majority of the purse strings are using social media to inform their purchasing decisions. Recent IDC research found that: 75% of the B2B Buyers use social media to inform and support purchase decisions. Learning How to Sell Socially Matters. The Bottom Line.

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Training Training B2B Sales 36

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

One of the simplest distinctions in sales is that between B2C, which stands for business-to-customer, and B2B, which stands for business-to-business. Alternatively, B2B sales happen when one business sells its products or services to another business. B2C and B2B sales are very different processes, requiring different strategies.

B2C 88

B2C B2B Sales Strategy 88

LSA Global

JULY 17, 2020

How B2B Selling Has Changed. A Special Note about How B2B Sales Have Changed during COVID-19. Before or after COVID, the underlying challenge remains – how do you get sales leaders and their sales reps who are pressured to meet their immediate sales targets to invest the time and energy required to develop new sales skills ?

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Sales Training Training B2B 36

The Fearless Marketer

APRIL 19, 2021

For B2B professionals, the biggest marketing priority is reaching out, having conversations, and giving presentations. Meeting and having conversations with prospective clients who are considering working with me. Then what’s most important? What brought in new clients were three very simple but powerful activities.

Marketing 71

Marketing B2B Tools Sales 71

Action Plan

JULY 10, 2023

on Thursday, May 21, 2015, Sylvia Senaldi sent an email to Dr. Peter Tyre: Pete, Meet Mac Shields. Mac attended your presentation recently and wanted to see if you would be interested in meeting up for coffee. Mac, I’d love to meet up with you. Or, if it’s more convenient to meet at your office, just let me know.

How To 40

How To Meeting B2B Conference 40

LSA Global

MAY 8, 2023

The cross-selling strategy was part of a strategic sales initiative to grow globally while achieving economies of scale across markets, regions, products, services, and suppliers.

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Sales Industry Leadership Company 36

Clarity Consultants

MAY 26, 2023

The B2B sales world has completely changed over the last few years, and businesses all over the world are struggling to keep up. B2B selling has become a difficult task, and it’s even harder if there’s no strategy put into place–which is where sales enablement comes in. However, it goes far beyond that.

Sales 62

Sales B2B Training Training 62

The Fearless Marketer

JANUARY 10, 2022

I see that you’re a management consultant and I work with B2B professionals to help them attract new clients. The objective here is to get a meeting and begin to build a business relationship. The first thing you want to talk about in your initial meeting is each other’s situation. And what do you do in that meeting?

B2B 62

B2B Meeting Groups Marketing 62

Jerry Fletcher

JUNE 27, 2020

Their clients generally are middle market B2B and not subject to the opinions of the multitudes except if they are targeted by an anti-elitist group. Whether your clients work in B2B or B2C you can be more effective the more you know. They tend to be seen as “thought leaders” and are expected to lead the discussion. Does it sell?

Marketing 64

Marketing Consulting B2C B2B 64

LSA Global

APRIL 10, 2020

We define B2B social selling as the ongoing process of leveraging digital channels to find, engage, and connect with ideal target clients. High performing B2B social sellers build relationships on digital platforms and turn online connections into offline sales conversations and long-term customer relationships. 80% more productive.

Sales 36

Sales B2B Metrics Case Study 36

The Fearless Marketer

MAY 25, 2020

I’m working with 25 incredible people, all B2B self-employed professionals, who need all the support and attention I can give them. We’re all on Zoom now for client meetings and even training programs, but that may not be enough. I believe I got my message across successfully and it’s time to move on. But it was a real blast!

B2B 71

B2B Small Business Energy Education 71

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Once you have customer buy-in, you can set up meetings and determine whether a proposal can be submitted. As a result, business development consultants need to spend significant time building and nurturing relationships with individuals who have the ability to make decisions and the authority to spend money.

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Development Consulting B2C B2B 88

The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Apply simple strategies to Meet with Your Ideal Clients who will be open to exploring with you how you can help them. And then in April, I’ll be starting my next Marketing Action Group Program where I help B2B consultants, coaches, and trainers decode this puzzle for themselves and put it into action. I’ll give it all away.

Marketing 62

Marketing B2B System Groups 62

Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 31, 2019

At scale, a large company in B2B selling has a multi-year approach to finding and working with professionals. When you don’t get the gig, it’s not because of something you did wrong at any particular meeting with an amateur… the mistake might simply be that you’re having these meetings with amateurs at all.

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B2B Meeting Talent Sales 35

1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

These powerful and insightful tools are being applied in unique ways to meet needs throughout the customer lifecycle. And the recent Leadscon 2017 “Connect to Convert” conference in New York bustled with innovative ideas about how to use AI and bots in B2C and B2B marketing. Finding the right AI for the job Design that Speaks!

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B2C B2B Conference Tools 20

Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 18, 2014

What are you doing to continue to understand and meet their needs and expectations? ” – Mitch joel. “Companies need to view themselves as constant learning organizations” – Donald Schön quoted in “ The Moment of Clarity ” by Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel B.

B2C 77

B2C B2B Media Examples 77

Tom Spencer

MAY 22, 2016

AOB: Stands for “any other business” and might be used in a meeting agenda to block out time for miscellaneous discussion. B2B: Stands for “business to business” and indicates that a business is aiming to sell to other businesses rather than to end consumers. Touch base: To meet at a certain time to talk about the project.

Consulting 68

Consulting McKinsey Bain B2C 68

Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Customer/client securing – We’re not talking a retail environment here, we’re talking B2B, especially where there’s an ongoing relationship. A buyer not only wants to have a warm-fuzzy feeling when with the owner but he wants to meet the key employees and talk with the customers (at the proper time and in the proper way).

Real Estate 40

Real Estate B2B Journal Retail 40

Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 10, 2019

Being able to meet and get to know fellow CEOs from a different industry or even a similar one helps a lot due to the sharing of like information. B2B “Coffee Connection” to facilitate exchange of prospects, leads, brainstorming and resources to aid everyone’s business development objectives. Our members will be happy to meet you!

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Meeting B2B Nonprofit Media 40

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Most advertise meetings on the Meetup Platform. Unlike Berlin, Frankfurt also promises to be a city that promotes the growth of more B2B financial endeavours. That makes the city one of the best places to both live and pitch on a regular basis. It is possible to go to (at least) one event every day of the week.

Banking 60

Banking Insurance Insurance B2B 60

LSA Global

MARCH 18, 2022

3 Sales Context Tips to Increase Revenue from Existing Customers Outperforming B2B sales organizations ensure that their sales strategy and sales culture are defined and aligned to grow existing strategic accounts. Current and repeat customers spend two-thirds more than new customers.

How To 36

How To Sales B2B Culture 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

A Fortune 250 B2B company spent a quarter of a million dollars trying to solve the wrong problem. Our research on B2B sales management found that in particular, a common problem is lack of alignment around product pricing and sales force compensation strategies. Over 150 B2B salespeople were involved in the research.

Sales 28

Sales Marketing B2B Case Interview 28

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

AOB: Stands for “any other business” and might be used in a meeting agenda to block out time for miscellaneous discussion. “At B2B: Stands for “business to business” and indicates that a business is aiming to sell to other businesses rather than to end consumers. Touch base: To meet at a certain time to talk about the project.

Consulting 60

Consulting McKinsey Bain B2C 60

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

To motivate, manage, and reward B2B salespeople, many companies use sales incentive plans that link large commissions or bonuses to individual results metrics, such as territory quota achievement. More and more selling situations today are failing to meet one or both necessary conditions for traditional sales incentives to work.

Sales 43

Sales Metrics B2B Culture 43

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Our recent benchmarking of nearly 900 B2B companies underscores the importance of these tools. After deploying this and other digital tools, the company’s sales team doubled its rate of scheduling a first meeting with a prospective customer. Almost all B2B companies could do better on pricing. Raise the game in pricing.

Sales 41

Sales B2B Tools Software 41

Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2017

but just think if as (B2B) customers we knew in advance how vendors treat their customers, if their billing is timely and accurate, if delivery schedules are met, and more. During a recent meeting, someone was talking about how they were firing a customer. Vendors and customers – we can do credit checks, background checks, etc.

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Case Interview Interviews B2B Culture 40