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The importance of culture fit in B2B Saas selling

By Mark Gibson on Mar 13, 2024 2:07:23 PM

Introduction

If you Google culture fit, you will find scant references to B2B selling and hundreds of references to the suitability of candidates in an organisation, but the concepts are related.

Topics: Saas B2B selling process culture fit
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How to accelerate B2B saas revenue in 2024 -video

By Mark Gibson on Jan 24, 2024 8:00:00 AM

The script for the video

The video below runs for 3 minutes and explores essential activities to accelerate revenue.  The place to start sales performance is with your existing customers.  All of the methods discussed build on a fundamental understanding of the jobs your customers are trying to get done and are based on proven concepts. It is read by my wife Robin.

Topics: B2B selling process marketing messaging alignment visual storytelling
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Using a Meeting summary to improve win rate

By Mark Gibson on Mar 15, 2023 2:37:17 PM

This week I managed to get through to a buyer who had been ghosting me for a month.  Even though we had a great first meeting, I knew there was no opportunity.  We all hate losing, either to no decision or to the competition and that is why the meeting summary is such an important part of the modern sales process. Without a buyer's confirmation of agreement to your summary of the first meeting, there is no deal.

Losing to No Decision

The Jolt Effect, by Matt Dixon and Ted McKenna is garnering a lot of attention and rightly so as it documents the analysis of 2.5 million sales calls, the largest B2B sales data study since Neil Rackham’s research of 40,000+ sales calls documented in Spin Selling in1988.

The Jolt Effect (read my review), is all about judging and helping buyers to overcome their indecision around purchasing new technology.

Topics: B2B selling process
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The Challenger Sale - Book Review

By Mark Gibson on Oct 27, 2021 11:23:06 AM

The Challenger Sale (TCS), by Matt Dixon and Brent Adamson is an important book for sales professionals and sales managers involved in complex B2B sales as it proves that a number of commonly held beliefs about sales behavior are obsolete. 
 
Its successor, (read my book review) The Challenger Customer - Book Review is even more valluable for marketers and sales enblement professionals as it inherits many of the concepts in this work and applies the sale level of rigor to examing how companies buy. The insights are worth ten times the price of the book.

Unlike many other "how-to-sell" books based on theories and ideas on improving sales performance, The Challenger Sale is underpinned by rich and extensive data from more than 6,000 sales professionals from more than 100 member companies, gathered over the past four years.

You are a Prospect for Challenger Sales Training

I don't have a problem (other reviewers did have), that TCS is produced by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) and that the CEB is a member organization providing for-profit sales training for its members. They want to sell you Challenger Sales Development Services...in the same way every other author of sales performance literature wants to sell their services. It happens that we are very much aligned in our view of the sea-change that has occurred in buyer behavior and the need for new approaches in engaging buyers at the moments of truth when face-face.

If you are selling complex software, enterprise hardware or services in a B2B environment and haven't read The Challenger Sale yet, then perhaps this article might convince you it's worth reading at least once...regardless of where you get your sales development services.
Topics: sales performance challenger sale B2B selling process
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B2B Sales in Turmoil - Who Needs Salespeople?

By Mark Gibson on May 10, 2012 12:00:00 AM

This three part blog series started with a guest post on the evolution of marketing and PR, by PR-consultant-turned-inbound-marketer Ellie Becker

The series continues with a post on the changing perceptions and realities of the sales role in the B2B buying process with Mike Bosworth. Mike Bosworth is the founder of Solution Selling. From Solution Selling, Customer Centric Selling was born. He is the co-founder of Story Leaders in which he provides workshops and executive coaching, helping people learn how to use the powers of story and empathic listening to connect with, inspire, and influence change in others.
The series concludes with a post from Mark Gibson, entitled B2B Sales and Marketing in Transition, What's Working".

Topics: sales B2B selling process buying process