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    Blog Category // B2B Buying Process (7)

    Are you appealing to budget makers or budget takers?

    Are your sales and marketing messages targeted at budget makers or budget takers? In most complex, high value sales ...

    4 distinctively different states of the B2B buying decision process

    I’ve written before about the Buyer’s Journey, and about the stages that your b2b prospects go through in their buying ...

    What’s holding your business back? Try this 12-point action framework

    What would happen if you were able to double your sales and marketing resources overnight? Assuming that you haven’t already ...

    Perhaps there’s no such thing as solution selling - only solution buying

    There’s a multi-million $ industry built up around solution selling. Training companies deliver courses promising to help ...

    B2B Buying Cycle Alignment: 4 in 5 sales organisations must do better

    CSO Insights have just published their 2012 Sales Management Optimisation study. As always, the conclusions from their ...

    Transforming your marketing from a cost centre to a revenue centre

    According to many marketing leaders I speak to, B2B marketing budgets are coming under increasing pressure. These marketing ...

    3 proven ways to shorten your average sales cycle

    The length of the average sales cycle is a concern for many B2B sales leaders, and with good reason: successfully shortening ...

    7 Essential Building Blocks to More Effective B2B Marketing

    According to a recent series of articles by Adam Needles, author of “Balancing the Demand Equation”, the current state of ...

    What is your marketing for?

    John Wanamaker - described by Wikipedia as the father of modern advertising, and a pioneer in marketing - is famously and ...

    Why Sales doesn’t care about Aligning with Marketing - but ought to

    I admit it. I’ve been guilty of promoting the benefits of sales and marketing alignment as if they were self-evident to ...