Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. In fact, a recent survey found that connecting with a prospect now takes 18 or more phone calls, callback rates are below 1%, and only 24% of outbound sales emails are ever opened. B2B salespeople only need to invest 5% to 10% of their time to be successful with social.

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B2B Sales Media Guidelines 72

LSA Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Sales Manager Training Workshop results were: 98% job relevance 98.4% 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%

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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. This makes a sales enablement program a vital tool when running a business. What is the Purpose and Goal of a Sales Enablement Program? That’s why a sales enablement program is essential.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Sales Leader Training Workshop results were: 100% job relevance 97.2% The Sales Leader Training Workshop results were: 100% job relevance 97.2% The workshops were designed and delivered to align with and support current solution selling training being rolled out for all sales reps. satisfaction 134% knowledge gain 95.6%

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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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LSA Global

JULY 17, 2020

Meaningful Sales Training Outcomes Require Meaningful Steps. To execute their growth strategies , CEOs and sales leaders often need their sales teams to behave differently by selling differently to different buyers. How B2B Selling Has Changed. A Special Note about How B2B Sales Have Changed during COVID-19.

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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.

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B2B Sales Data Automotive 28

Comatch

APRIL 3, 2023

1) Identify an appropriate platform Social media has revolutionized the way B2B buyers navigate their purchasing journey. In the past, sales representatives played a central role in providing information and building relationships with buyers. LinkedIn is the number one dark social channel for professionals and B2B purchases today.

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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

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.

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Sales B2B Metrics Case Study 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

It traced much of the cause to a mismatch between its sales incentives and pricing strategy. The manufacturer was compensating sales representatives based solely on how much revenue they generated. Like this manufacturer, many business-to-business (B2B) companies have a major opportunity to improve their standing on price.

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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. The right sales incentive plan creates a double win. This made it easy to measure individual sales results.

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1 to 1

MAY 1, 2024

Strategic Sales, Customer Success and Support Enterprise Sales Strategies: The sales processes for these companies are highly sophisticated, involving direct engagement with several decision-makers, demonstrating potential ROI, and providing assurances about support and customization capabilities.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

These “have it your way” consumer experiences have changed the way the business world thinks about sales. B2B buyers have slowly been conditioned to expect the same personalized treatment that they get while shopping on Amazon. At an individual sales rep level, social selling can be powerful. Closer engagement.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. We’ll focus here on what the sales organization should be doing now to prepare for the next recession, with an eye toward using new digital tools.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2020

Why Social Selling Training Programs Fail to Grow the Sales Pipeline. When done right, curated online relationships should turn into more meaningful and more qualified sales conversations. Recent IDC research found that: 75% of the B2B Buyers use social media to inform and support purchase decisions. Lack of Sales Coaching.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

A Fortune 250 B2B company spent a quarter of a million dollars trying to solve the wrong problem. A new product line had failed, and the company believed the problem was either poor product delivery times or lack of effort by the sales force. Over 150 B2B salespeople were involved in the research. This company isn’t alone.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

To succeed in sales, you must know your customer. 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. Simply put, a B2C sale takes place when your business sells a product or service directly to an end consumer.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Customer relationship management software revolutionized how companies manage their sales pipelines. It also allowed organizations to communicate and coordinate more effectively across large sales account teams. Now a new breed of software applications is reshaping sales force management. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles. At the highest level, Workplace Analytics can provide a factual foundation for decisions on sales structure and roles.

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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? Giving webinars or presentations that give prospects an experience of my work.

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Marketing B2B Tools Sales 71

LSA Global

MARCH 18, 2022

Savvy sales managers and leaders invest heavily in growing current strategic accounts. 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.

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How To Sales B2B Culture 36

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Companies are beginning to utilize their employees’ behavioral data — generally known as people analytics — to better understand and improve their sales operations , with strong results. Microsoft, where we work, is no exception, and B2B sales is one of the areas where we are seeing the most value.

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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. Can we layer other sales on top of it? Choose First you ask the right questions. Does it sell?

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Business development consulting is about helping businesses grow sales and profits in order to achieve their strategic objectives. Once you have customer buy-in, you can set up meetings and determine whether a proposal can be submitted.

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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. Learn how to make an Irresistible Offer and close the sale. Develop and sell a High-End, Outcome-Based (HEOB) Program or Service that delivers consistently. It starts with the right emails to the right people.

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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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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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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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Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

Often, this is because they’ve been founded by technologists, and sales is not an area of expertise. So sales doesn’t become a focus of attention until cash starts to burn. Should we bundle maintenance and other services into our sales approach, or sell them separately?

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Marketing Software Sales Exercises 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

On the sales and service fronts, leaders are increasingly focused on positioning employees to be more effective and productive in the new paradigms they face. Progressive sales leaders position reps to help buyer groups navigate this complex purchase process, an approach we call “buyer enablement.”

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Enterprise Agile Sales Operations 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 29, 2016

applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. Their developers focus on meeting operational and environmental requirements, caring little about the physical appearance or user experience of a dashboard- or engine-compartment-mounted device that monitors vehicle data. Overwhelmingly, those IoT 1.0

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

The product, owned by Germany’s Brandstatter Group, generated 90% of the firm’s $696 million in sales last year. The luxury SUV that set a record for pre-sales. At the time, gasoline prices were soaring and sales of large SUVs had declined. One is a sales force that is easily meeting its targets with the product.

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Tsavo Neal

JUNE 19, 2020

Why do people write in 3rd person in the about section of their LinkedIn profile, especially those in B2B sales. It’s because they’ve seen others do it and it “looks professional”— and they don’t know a thing about marketing or sales. (I I don’t blame them — marketing and sales are very difficult).

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2022

Example: For a small B2B firm, it might be feasible to manage contacts in a spreadsheet or a contact database of the email program. This role will create the relevant infrastructure for you (think: SOPs , KPIs, Collaboration tools, regular meetings etc.). Examples are sales operations or revenue ops.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

Would you go and meet a prospective client wearing basketball shorts and sandles? So, I beg you, don’t design your own sales materials. Many sales are won and lost by simply by how you graphically represent yourself.” 52% of B2B buyers say the expect half of their purchases to be made online by 2018.

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Asamby Consulting

APRIL 14, 2022

Typical sales funnel with 5 stages: contact, demo/scoping, proposal, negotiation, sale. Demo/Scoping: The perspective customer participates to a meeting or call to know more about a product or service and to share his/her needs and requirements. Negotiation: Clarifying, discussing and, if necessary, adjusting the proposal.

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