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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1 to 1

AUGUST 30, 2021

The sales world is forever altered, thanks to pandemic-fueled digital transformation across entire enterprises. 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.

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B2B Sales ROI B2C 29

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 69

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

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.

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Training Training B2B Sales 36

LSA Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Product-Oriented versus Customer-Oriented Experienced sales managers know that their team’s sales presentations should orient their messages toward the customer rather than the product. Yet research shows that salespeople regularly stumble headlong into a product-oriented approach when making sales presentations.

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Sales B2B Research Productivity 36

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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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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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

During our chat, I tell J that he needs to identify whether he is a B2B or B2C consultant or coach - this will determine how he positions himself and answers the dreaded "What do you do?" Leading with a sales pitch. Links: Download our FREE guides and training on how to position yourself as an expert consultant and coach: [link].

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. When I started my career, the most profitable application of force was in sales. Back in the 1990s, sales reps had a lot of information, while customers had relatively little. Sales reps leveraged that information gap to create a lot of trust.

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Sales B2C Energy Efficiency 49

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

While there’s less buzz around business-to-business markets, these innovations are changing the game in B2B as well, even in old-line industries selling what might be considered commodity products. For a deep dive into the elements, see our related HBR article “ The B2B Elements of Value ”).

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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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Sales B2B Tools Software 40

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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Sales Metrics B2B Culture 42

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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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

Well-intentioned as it was, the result of all this “content” is confusion, indecision, exasperation, and, ironically, a slower sales cycle. According to the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), the number of people involved in B2B solution purchases has climbed from an average of 5.4 two years ago to 6.8 step into the shoes of your client.

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B2B Sales Sports Marketing 52

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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Sales Software Productivity Data 38

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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Sales Education Training Training 28

Prudent Pedal

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Staff ineptness, website deficiencies, social media strategies, misallocated marketing budgets, the absence of brochures, lack of sales and marketing integration, CRM, or cross-selling demands are common complaints. Lacks understanding of the complex B2B buying cycle. I’ve focused on brand problems that were really sales problems.

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Marketing B2B Film Sales 45

Women in Consulting

DECEMBER 10, 2013

By: Linda Popky The post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy started early this year, with some stores actually holding Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving evening. Just to complicate things, online merchants started holding Black Friday events, and some brick and mortar stores held Cyber Monday sales. Groupon, LivingSocial, etc.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

It’s a solid approach that has become a cornerstone of B2B technology marketing and messaging strategy because it works. The top team is KEY: CEO, the VP sales, and VP marketing. This “trifecta partnership” of the CEO, and his/her VPs of marketing and sales must be locked arm in arm, and operating in lock step together.

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Marketing Engineering B2B Guidelines 70

The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 1, 2018

They are typically titles (Patent Attorney, Management Consultant, Personal Chef) or labels of what people do (tax preparation specialist, training in communication skills). Instead, you want something like John Nemo’s: “I Show B2B Sales Professionals, Business Coaches and Consultants How To Generate Leads + Add Clients using LinkedIn”. __.

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Marketing B2B Media Course 54

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Though the firm’s background is exclusively in pricing, in more recent years it has been breaking into other practice areas such as strategy, marketing, and sales. In 1996, Simon-Kucher opened an office in Boston and began to put more of a focus on its other three practice areas: strategy, marketing, and sales. B2B Services.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Brocade, a data and network solutions provider, created a “customer first” program by identifying their top 200 customers, who account for 80% of their sales. Brocade’s Net Promoter Score went from 50 (already a best in class score) to 62 (one of the highest B2B scores on record) within 18 months. The results?

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 50

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

He noted his accomplishments in several areas: strategy development and execution, branding and marketing, sales, partnerships, and IP. At Axion, I created—from scratch—the commercial infrastructure and sales strategies that led to a 23X growth in customers and a greater than 90% YOY retention rate. 75M to more than $14.5M

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Resumes Interviews Cover Letters Recruiting 28

LSA Global

APRIL 16, 2021

A Sales Leader’s Dilemma – Top Ways to Grow Revenue There are only so many actions available to a sales leader to profitably grow revenue. The art is identifying, agreeing to, and committing to top ways to grow revenue for you and your sales team. Which sales growth lever should you pull?

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Sales B2B Training Training 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Alex Mohler admits that when he first started as director of client services at Crubiq, a B2B sales company based in Raleigh, North Carolina, he felt like a fish out of water. ” He reminded himself that Crubiq represented a new business for him, and he had a proven track record in sales. . If it’s too much, say so.

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How To Case Study Case Studies B2B 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Splunk , a San Francisco-based B2B software firm, is a case in point.

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Sales Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. Splunk , a San Francisco-based B2B software firm, is a case in point.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

You are trained on how to get into a CEO’s mindset within a lifetime of an engagement while being an outsider. ” “I was working in a wine shop during my undergrad and started to realize that I was able to close more sales by being a trusted advisor to my client rather than acting like a sales rep.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

PMs must understand customers’ emotions and concerns about their product as much as they understand the concerns of the sales team on how to sell that product, or the support team on how to support it, or the engineering on how to build it. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Company Fit.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Now, B2B decision makers are actively looking for consultants online, and your digital presence can be a huge part of how you generate new conversations with buyers. As a consultant, there is no better position to be in for sales conversations than that of the trusted advisor — a position that publishing your white paper helps you take.

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Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Recently, a Fortune 100 consumer product giant shifted its sales promotion strategy in India from coupons in newspapers to offers on mobile devices. The bottom line: 4G revolution is a fast train which companies must get on or they’ll be left behind. It is another internet revolution, yet again.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Banking 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

For example, several healthcare multinationals we work with are actively expanding their local teams in Saudi Arabia and investing in improving their staff’s skills in solution sales, value-added services, and government engagement, so they can more effectively bid on tenders to equip new hospitals.

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