buyer enablement

Buyer Trust

4 Paths To Building Buyer Trust Through Empathy And Humility

Buyer Trust Is Elusive For Most Marketing And Sales Teams Unless They Can Balance Empathy And Humility Marketing and sales traditionally believe that the path to building buyer trust is by providing answers. Answers to buyer problems and challenges.  In fact, each prime their channels with marketing content or sales guides at the ready with …

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Buyer Insights

4 Areas Of Actionable Buyer Insights Can Help You Deliver A Differentiating Digital Buying Experience

Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Leverage Buyer Insights To Create Rewarding Digital Buying Experiences For Buyers One significant outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the increasing desire on the part of buyers for digital buying experiences.  Not that this type of outcome was ever in question.  The capability to offer digital buying experiences was already …

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Buyer Persona Sales

Why A Buyer Persona Sales System Is Needed In A New Era Of B2B

Sales Leaders Will Need To Implement A Buyer Persona Driven Sales System To Adapt To New Buyer Behaviors And Preferences The past year of 2020 into 2021 will be looked at as one of the more transformative years to hit B2B sales in many a decade.  Rocked to a standstill by the Covid-19 pandemic, sales …

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Future-Enabling Buyers Will Be Key In 2021 And Beyond

The new year is almost one-month-old.  In less than three weeks, the country has experienced a time like no other.  Where the degree of uncertainty about our future has intensified.  The chaos surrounding the vaccination rollouts and the political climate has altered the degree of hoped-for certainty.  Such a turn of events has an impact.  …

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B2B Buyer Content Fatigue Is A Very Real Thing And A Big Problem

The global COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the effect of fatigue on people from all walks of life.  We are feeling pandemic fatigue from vigilant following of guidelines.  Business professionals are burning out from Zoom meeting fatigue.  Our courageous frontline health care workers are nearing collapse from the fatigue of long intense hours.  Single mothers and …

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Building Buyer Confidence More Important Due To COVID-19

In sports, confidence is often mentioned as one of the key ingredients to winning.  I saw this firsthand with my daughter and her competitive experience in gymnastics.  She attended the same gym as Amy Chow, the U.S. Olympic Gold and Silver Medal winner in the 1996 Olympics.  And a team member of the 2000 Olympics.  …

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Will Pre-Pandemic Buyer Assumptions Prevent Recovery And Rebound In 2021?

Over time, we can build assumptions about how things work.  How things are supposed to be.  Or we cement assumptions about what people think. Or how we expect people to behave.  Oftentimes, we can create an over-reliance on past data and experiences to shape our assumptions about the present and the future.  Due to the …

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Why B2B Organizations Fail To Turn Buyer Insights Into Growth Opportunities

We have all encountered times when we offer wisdom or counsel to a loved one or a friend – and they fall on deaf ears.  The stubborn teenager comes to mind.  As parents, no matter what advice we share does not seem to get through.  The same may occur with a friend during troubling times.  …

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The Intrepid Buyer

When I was a young boy, I was fascinated by the history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that began in May of 1804.  An exploration to chart and explore the Louisiana Purchase Territory at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson.  Lewis and Clark spent the fall and winter of 1803-1804 in preparation. Requisitioning supplies …

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