This document provides 101 sales qualification questions to help salespeople qualify leads at different stages of the sales process. The questions are organized into the following categories: questions to ask yourself; awareness questions; budget questions; authority questions; need questions; timeline questions; business impact questions; competitor & industry questions; advancement questions; closing questions; revisiting questions; and upselling questions. The questions range from basic information gathering to more in-depth questions about needs, budget, decision makers, and addressing objections to help move prospects through the sales funnel.
Convincing your CEO to invest in a loyalty programmecolinjones001
This document provides guidance on building a business case to convince a CEO and senior management team to invest in a customer loyalty program. It outlines the benefits of loyalty programs, including retaining valuable customers who spend more and drive revenue. The document recommends a 10 step process to build the case, including proving expected profit impact, using customer data to show growth opportunities, and addressing potential objections. It also suggests running a pilot program to test the concept and demonstrate results before full implementation.
The document provides guidance on convincing a CEO to invest in a customer loyalty program. It outlines the benefits of loyalty programs, including retaining valuable customers who spend more and refer others. The document then gives a 10 step process to build a business case, including proving expected profit increases, using customer data to show growth opportunities, and addressing potential objections. It also recommends running a pilot program to test the concept. The conclusion presents a quick pitch focusing on using data to measure success and showcasing examples of loyalty programs that increased profits.
Nurturing Best Practices for Demand GenAsad Haroon
Most companies have a database of leads that have been set aside after initial closing attempts failed to produce the desired results. These leads should not be ignored, as they can prove at least as valuable as fresh leads, and are worth working. The truth is, even the best leads will not produce the results you want if they are not managed and nurtured well.
This document discusses the importance of lead nurturing for B2B sales. It provides insights from a case study where a company was able to generate 37% of new customers from leads over 3 months old and 20% from leads over 1 year old through effective lead nurturing. It outlines best practices like becoming an industry expert to nurture leads, tracking marketing activities, using call scripts and emails, not wasting leads, and tracking results. It also discusses nurturing leads through different stages of the sales cycle with a combination of communications like email, telemarketing, direct mail and webcasts.
Those annoying members! We put the information in the email! It’s not our fault that they didn’t take the time to read it! If your organization is currently relying on a uni-channel messaging strategy, then this webinar is for you. While email remains the backbone of a digital marketing strategy for the foreseeable future, the user has changed. Learn why email isn’t enough and take home new strategies for increasing your users receiving and absorbing your message! Watch this entire webinar and others by Highroad U on our YouTube channel: http://shout.lt/rMNF
17 Tips to Take Your Prospecting Skills to the Next LevelRAIN Group
Successful prospecting means stronger pipelines, more qualified opportunities, and increased closes. In this presentation, we share 17 tips for taking your prospecting skills to the next level.
This document provides guidance on effective prospecting techniques. It discusses the importance of consistent prospecting for sales success. It also emphasizes the need to focus prospecting efforts on ideal prospects by defining an ideal customer profile. This allows salespeople to maximize their time by pursuing opportunities that are the best fit. The document also encourages salespeople to find hidden revenue opportunities through cross-selling and up-selling existing customers.
Staying In Droves: How to Win the Customer Retention Revolution (Full eBook)MaxMedia
Full version of the eBook is now available. It is suggested you use "view full screen" option.
Includes a Step-by-Step System, and 58 Ideas, Strategies, Trends, Examples and Tips to Help You Retain More Customers and Emerge Triumphant From the Recession.
How secure are your best customers? How sure are you?
Whether you realize it or not, you are in an all-out battle for your customers. A battle the likes of which hasn’t been seen in decades. Just like any army would prepare for battle, you need a plan of attack.
What if there were a system that was specifically designed to strengthen your customer relationships? Imagine a customer base so loyal that:
- Virtually no amount of pricing discounts would lure them away
- They couldn’t wait to refer their friends and associates to you
- They would forgive you when you made a mistake
Convincing your CEO to invest in a loyalty programmecolinjones001
This document provides guidance on building a business case to convince a CEO and senior management team to invest in a customer loyalty program. It outlines the benefits of loyalty programs, including retaining valuable customers who spend more and drive revenue. The document recommends a 10 step process to build the case, including proving expected profit impact, using customer data to show growth opportunities, and addressing potential objections. It also suggests running a pilot program to test the concept and demonstrate results before full implementation.
The document provides guidance on convincing a CEO to invest in a customer loyalty program. It outlines the benefits of loyalty programs, including retaining valuable customers who spend more and refer others. The document then gives a 10 step process to build a business case, including proving expected profit increases, using customer data to show growth opportunities, and addressing potential objections. It also recommends running a pilot program to test the concept. The conclusion presents a quick pitch focusing on using data to measure success and showcasing examples of loyalty programs that increased profits.
Nurturing Best Practices for Demand GenAsad Haroon
Most companies have a database of leads that have been set aside after initial closing attempts failed to produce the desired results. These leads should not be ignored, as they can prove at least as valuable as fresh leads, and are worth working. The truth is, even the best leads will not produce the results you want if they are not managed and nurtured well.
This document discusses the importance of lead nurturing for B2B sales. It provides insights from a case study where a company was able to generate 37% of new customers from leads over 3 months old and 20% from leads over 1 year old through effective lead nurturing. It outlines best practices like becoming an industry expert to nurture leads, tracking marketing activities, using call scripts and emails, not wasting leads, and tracking results. It also discusses nurturing leads through different stages of the sales cycle with a combination of communications like email, telemarketing, direct mail and webcasts.
Those annoying members! We put the information in the email! It’s not our fault that they didn’t take the time to read it! If your organization is currently relying on a uni-channel messaging strategy, then this webinar is for you. While email remains the backbone of a digital marketing strategy for the foreseeable future, the user has changed. Learn why email isn’t enough and take home new strategies for increasing your users receiving and absorbing your message! Watch this entire webinar and others by Highroad U on our YouTube channel: http://shout.lt/rMNF
17 Tips to Take Your Prospecting Skills to the Next LevelRAIN Group
Successful prospecting means stronger pipelines, more qualified opportunities, and increased closes. In this presentation, we share 17 tips for taking your prospecting skills to the next level.
This document provides guidance on effective prospecting techniques. It discusses the importance of consistent prospecting for sales success. It also emphasizes the need to focus prospecting efforts on ideal prospects by defining an ideal customer profile. This allows salespeople to maximize their time by pursuing opportunities that are the best fit. The document also encourages salespeople to find hidden revenue opportunities through cross-selling and up-selling existing customers.
Staying In Droves: How to Win the Customer Retention Revolution (Full eBook)MaxMedia
Full version of the eBook is now available. It is suggested you use "view full screen" option.
Includes a Step-by-Step System, and 58 Ideas, Strategies, Trends, Examples and Tips to Help You Retain More Customers and Emerge Triumphant From the Recession.
How secure are your best customers? How sure are you?
Whether you realize it or not, you are in an all-out battle for your customers. A battle the likes of which hasn’t been seen in decades. Just like any army would prepare for battle, you need a plan of attack.
What if there were a system that was specifically designed to strengthen your customer relationships? Imagine a customer base so loyal that:
- Virtually no amount of pricing discounts would lure them away
- They couldn’t wait to refer their friends and associates to you
- They would forgive you when you made a mistake
Understanding the customer is key to keeping them happy and ensuring project success. This involves listening to understand their true needs, communicating proactively to provide relevant updates and recommendations, and helping the customer by highlighting risks and issues. Barriers like unrealistic deadlines or lack of resources can damage the relationship if not addressed openly and honestly with the customer. Overall, customer satisfaction depends on dedicating effort to understand and support the customer throughout the project.
The document provides guidance on developing an effective value proposition and presentation for business opportunities in global markets. It outlines key components of understanding the target market's needs and how the solution addresses them. It emphasizes tangible benefits like increased revenue and efficiency. The document also offers tips for structuring presentations, including starting with the most important point, using stories and repetition of main messages.
IPenable provides engineered solutions for device manufacturers and utilities focused on advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), distribution automation (DA), and smart infrastructure. Their solutions embed low-cost, reliable IP communications modules into devices to improve connectivity and allow new services. They combine best-of-breed hardware, software, and services to help manufacturers quickly integrate communications. IPenable sells to AMI, DA, and infrastructure vendors and utilities through prospecting, conferences, associations, and providing architectural roadmaps. Their solutions leverage partners like Cisco and Verizon for wide area networking.
The miller heiman prospecting guide - best practicesJorge Hilário
This document provides guidance on effective prospecting techniques. It discusses the importance of consistent prospecting for sales success. Good prospecting includes identifying ideal prospects, managing time efficiently, and expanding your network. The document provides tips for various prospecting best practices like defining a valid business reason for outreach, understanding proper timing, maximizing time by defining an ideal customer profile, and finding additional sales opportunities through cross-selling and up-selling existing clients. The overall goal is to help salespeople improve their prospecting skills and achieve top performance.
Sales training course 2020 - START SELLINGFraser Hay
Sales training course 2020 - START SELLING is an overview of the sales training coaching programme from Grow Your Business.
Whether you need sales training, help with sales prospecting, pipeline management, lead generation,sales appointments, sales proposals and closing more sales, then check out our programme at https://www.growyourbusiness.tv
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The document discusses how to understand customers and their needs. It recommends researching customers to understand their problems, pain points, and priorities. It also suggests solving the problems customers actually have rather than what is assumed, keeping solutions simple, and understanding the true business benefits. The document advises understanding customers' current suppliers to know what they need and how much they will pay. It also stresses empathizing with users to build trust and selling to decision makers who will listen to users.
The document discusses product-centric vs customer-centric marketing strategies. A product-centric strategy focuses on developing new products and increasing market share, while a customer-centric strategy focuses on understanding customer needs and increasing profitability from the most valuable customers. Research findings show referred customers are more profitable and loyal than other acquired customers, and the difference in customer lifetime value depends on the individual customer. To be customer-centric, companies should identify their most valuable customers, find more like them, understand what they want, and increase profits through cross-selling and premium prices.
Your Value Proposition is the reason that customers choose to buy from you, it needs to be a core business skill. This slideshare shows you how to develop compelling value propositions with a focus on B2B companies
Customer Retention Strategies: 5 Steps to Winning and Keeping Customers for LifeSalesChannel International
We all want Revenue Growth? No, we all want profitable Revenue Growth! That means minimising Churn and/or maximising Retention. The challenge is that Retention is not a long-term, sustainable strategy. If the Customer wants out she will find a way. The better long-term, sustainable strategy is finding ways to make them want to stay. The Million dollar question is: How do you make them want to stay?
Customer retention involves activities to reduce customer defections and is important for companies to attract and retain customers. It is crucial in the insurance industry because losing a renewal means losing a customer. Acquiring new customers can cost five times as much as retaining existing ones. Retaining customers is possible through excellent customer service and post-sale support. Satisfied customers will promote a brand while unhappy customers may discourage others. Proper customer service training helps employees improve satisfaction and loyalty through skills like active listening and confirming understanding.
30 Must-Know Sales Prospecting Stats InfographicRAIN Group
This infographic highlights 30 must-know stats from the RAIN Group Center for Sales Research's recent analysis of 488 B2B buyers and 489 sellers to determine what's working in prospecting today.
This document provides an overview of a framework for building profitable customer relationships. It discusses understanding customer needs, values and expectations (NVEs), developing relationships through understanding the customer purchase decision process, "selling" through maintaining relationships, and fulfilling relationships through customer interaction points. Key aspects include aligning the company perspective with customer NVEs, leveraging purchase triggers, choosing appropriate relationship "selling" strategies like rewards or partnerships, and ensuring all parts of the company focus on meeting customer expectations. The framework is intended to help companies look at relationships from the outside-in perspective of customers.
The Experience Audit is one of my favorite tools because it is a completely new perspective in which to look at your customer strategy. In doing the work, you will be better prepared to have more meaningful conversations with your internal teams.
The Experience Audit ask you to look at existing customer behaviors and outcomes because behavior is the end all, be all, of profitable business. Behavior is the proof that your product is meeting needs, that you are delivering meaningful value. Behavior doesn’t lie. It doesn’t say things are worse than they are and it doesn’t sugar coat because they really like the person, but hate the product.
You can have significant financial impact if you focus your efforts on shifting more of your customers toward the attributes and behaviors of your most profitable and naturally satisfied customers. You can create sustainable, measurable results while at the same time reducing the sometimes overwhelming effort involved.
This document provides guidance on conducting an experience audit to improve a company's customer experience program. It finds that while 89% of customers think they are paying for a great experience and 80% of CEOs think they are delivering it, in reality customer experience is getting worse according to measures. The audit involves identifying a company's ideal, most profitable customers and those that drain resources to understand what behaviors could be shifted to make the latter more like the former. This focuses efforts on customers that bring the greatest value and aligns with a company's strengths. The audit provides clarity on customer promises, needs, and opportunities to improve strategy and maximize returns.
Winback and Acquisition Strategies in Customer Relationship ManagementSanath Dasanayaka
Customer Winback and Acquisition Strategies play a key role in the success of any organization. Basically, winning back lost customers is a hard task in which an organization should be successful. here it is expected to discuss several strategies that can be utilized in customer winning back. Those strategies will be very significant for any business organization in any field.
The document discusses customer retention and lifetime value. It begins by explaining why customer retention is important as retained customers buy more, are less price sensitive, and have higher lifetime value. It then discusses how to retain customers by recruiting the right customers, segmenting them by lifetime value, and communicating with them to build loyalty. The document provides an example of a lighting manufacturer that saw 82% increase in orders and 86% increase in order size by building relationships with select customers. It stresses the importance of calculating customer lifetime value to determine which customers to target retention efforts towards. The document outlines how to calculate lifetime value and provides examples of how strategies like loyalty programs and event-driven communications can increase lifetime value. It discusses how lifetime value analysis can
This document provides guidance on how to qualify deals and close sales by understanding the needs and decision-making process of prospects. It outlines 8 key questions to ask prospects to gather needed information on their budget, timeline, needs, and decision criteria. Understanding the answers to these questions is critical for moving deals forward or understanding why they may be stalled. The document emphasizes that preparation is key, and salespeople should plan their calls to ask these qualifying questions at appropriate times and confirm the answers to properly qualify deals and make closing easier.
Lecture 10 - B2B Marketing & Digital Customer Relationship Management.pptxFaizanGul6
The document provides an overview of business-to-business (B2B) marketing strategies and tactics for the digital age. It discusses developing buyer personas, identifying marketing channels, and creating and measuring marketing campaigns. Key points include developing a vision and goals, defining the target market and buyer persona through research, identifying appropriate marketing channels like blogs, social media and email, creating content like whitepapers and videos, and measuring performance to improve over time. The document also discusses shifts in the B2B buying process and how to adapt marketing approaches accordingly.
This document discusses key considerations for recruiting self-employed sales agents, including interview questions and etiquette. It provides guidance on narrowing the search criteria to find the best-suited agents. Common interview etiquette that agents expect is outlined, such as treating the agent as an equal partner, not an employee. The document also provides sample interview questions companies should ask agents to assess skills, experience, goals and work ethic, and questions agents may ask companies to evaluate compensation, support and opportunities. Overall traits of top-performing agents are discussed.
55 Customer Development Survey Questions!Wilson Pang
This document provides 55 survey questions to gather customer feedback across various goals, such as understanding customer motivations, identifying areas for improvement, and learning about the customer experience. The questions range from basic information about purchases and use of competitors' products to more strategic questions about business impacts, expectations, and opportunities for enhancing the customer relationship. The overarching goal is to use customer input to strengthen marketing, product development, and customer service.
Understanding the customer is key to keeping them happy and ensuring project success. This involves listening to understand their true needs, communicating proactively to provide relevant updates and recommendations, and helping the customer by highlighting risks and issues. Barriers like unrealistic deadlines or lack of resources can damage the relationship if not addressed openly and honestly with the customer. Overall, customer satisfaction depends on dedicating effort to understand and support the customer throughout the project.
The document provides guidance on developing an effective value proposition and presentation for business opportunities in global markets. It outlines key components of understanding the target market's needs and how the solution addresses them. It emphasizes tangible benefits like increased revenue and efficiency. The document also offers tips for structuring presentations, including starting with the most important point, using stories and repetition of main messages.
IPenable provides engineered solutions for device manufacturers and utilities focused on advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), distribution automation (DA), and smart infrastructure. Their solutions embed low-cost, reliable IP communications modules into devices to improve connectivity and allow new services. They combine best-of-breed hardware, software, and services to help manufacturers quickly integrate communications. IPenable sells to AMI, DA, and infrastructure vendors and utilities through prospecting, conferences, associations, and providing architectural roadmaps. Their solutions leverage partners like Cisco and Verizon for wide area networking.
The miller heiman prospecting guide - best practicesJorge Hilário
This document provides guidance on effective prospecting techniques. It discusses the importance of consistent prospecting for sales success. Good prospecting includes identifying ideal prospects, managing time efficiently, and expanding your network. The document provides tips for various prospecting best practices like defining a valid business reason for outreach, understanding proper timing, maximizing time by defining an ideal customer profile, and finding additional sales opportunities through cross-selling and up-selling existing clients. The overall goal is to help salespeople improve their prospecting skills and achieve top performance.
Sales training course 2020 - START SELLINGFraser Hay
Sales training course 2020 - START SELLING is an overview of the sales training coaching programme from Grow Your Business.
Whether you need sales training, help with sales prospecting, pipeline management, lead generation,sales appointments, sales proposals and closing more sales, then check out our programme at https://www.growyourbusiness.tv
TAGS;
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The document discusses how to understand customers and their needs. It recommends researching customers to understand their problems, pain points, and priorities. It also suggests solving the problems customers actually have rather than what is assumed, keeping solutions simple, and understanding the true business benefits. The document advises understanding customers' current suppliers to know what they need and how much they will pay. It also stresses empathizing with users to build trust and selling to decision makers who will listen to users.
The document discusses product-centric vs customer-centric marketing strategies. A product-centric strategy focuses on developing new products and increasing market share, while a customer-centric strategy focuses on understanding customer needs and increasing profitability from the most valuable customers. Research findings show referred customers are more profitable and loyal than other acquired customers, and the difference in customer lifetime value depends on the individual customer. To be customer-centric, companies should identify their most valuable customers, find more like them, understand what they want, and increase profits through cross-selling and premium prices.
Your Value Proposition is the reason that customers choose to buy from you, it needs to be a core business skill. This slideshare shows you how to develop compelling value propositions with a focus on B2B companies
Customer Retention Strategies: 5 Steps to Winning and Keeping Customers for LifeSalesChannel International
We all want Revenue Growth? No, we all want profitable Revenue Growth! That means minimising Churn and/or maximising Retention. The challenge is that Retention is not a long-term, sustainable strategy. If the Customer wants out she will find a way. The better long-term, sustainable strategy is finding ways to make them want to stay. The Million dollar question is: How do you make them want to stay?
Customer retention involves activities to reduce customer defections and is important for companies to attract and retain customers. It is crucial in the insurance industry because losing a renewal means losing a customer. Acquiring new customers can cost five times as much as retaining existing ones. Retaining customers is possible through excellent customer service and post-sale support. Satisfied customers will promote a brand while unhappy customers may discourage others. Proper customer service training helps employees improve satisfaction and loyalty through skills like active listening and confirming understanding.
30 Must-Know Sales Prospecting Stats InfographicRAIN Group
This infographic highlights 30 must-know stats from the RAIN Group Center for Sales Research's recent analysis of 488 B2B buyers and 489 sellers to determine what's working in prospecting today.
This document provides an overview of a framework for building profitable customer relationships. It discusses understanding customer needs, values and expectations (NVEs), developing relationships through understanding the customer purchase decision process, "selling" through maintaining relationships, and fulfilling relationships through customer interaction points. Key aspects include aligning the company perspective with customer NVEs, leveraging purchase triggers, choosing appropriate relationship "selling" strategies like rewards or partnerships, and ensuring all parts of the company focus on meeting customer expectations. The framework is intended to help companies look at relationships from the outside-in perspective of customers.
The Experience Audit is one of my favorite tools because it is a completely new perspective in which to look at your customer strategy. In doing the work, you will be better prepared to have more meaningful conversations with your internal teams.
The Experience Audit ask you to look at existing customer behaviors and outcomes because behavior is the end all, be all, of profitable business. Behavior is the proof that your product is meeting needs, that you are delivering meaningful value. Behavior doesn’t lie. It doesn’t say things are worse than they are and it doesn’t sugar coat because they really like the person, but hate the product.
You can have significant financial impact if you focus your efforts on shifting more of your customers toward the attributes and behaviors of your most profitable and naturally satisfied customers. You can create sustainable, measurable results while at the same time reducing the sometimes overwhelming effort involved.
This document provides guidance on conducting an experience audit to improve a company's customer experience program. It finds that while 89% of customers think they are paying for a great experience and 80% of CEOs think they are delivering it, in reality customer experience is getting worse according to measures. The audit involves identifying a company's ideal, most profitable customers and those that drain resources to understand what behaviors could be shifted to make the latter more like the former. This focuses efforts on customers that bring the greatest value and aligns with a company's strengths. The audit provides clarity on customer promises, needs, and opportunities to improve strategy and maximize returns.
Winback and Acquisition Strategies in Customer Relationship ManagementSanath Dasanayaka
Customer Winback and Acquisition Strategies play a key role in the success of any organization. Basically, winning back lost customers is a hard task in which an organization should be successful. here it is expected to discuss several strategies that can be utilized in customer winning back. Those strategies will be very significant for any business organization in any field.
The document discusses customer retention and lifetime value. It begins by explaining why customer retention is important as retained customers buy more, are less price sensitive, and have higher lifetime value. It then discusses how to retain customers by recruiting the right customers, segmenting them by lifetime value, and communicating with them to build loyalty. The document provides an example of a lighting manufacturer that saw 82% increase in orders and 86% increase in order size by building relationships with select customers. It stresses the importance of calculating customer lifetime value to determine which customers to target retention efforts towards. The document outlines how to calculate lifetime value and provides examples of how strategies like loyalty programs and event-driven communications can increase lifetime value. It discusses how lifetime value analysis can
This document provides guidance on how to qualify deals and close sales by understanding the needs and decision-making process of prospects. It outlines 8 key questions to ask prospects to gather needed information on their budget, timeline, needs, and decision criteria. Understanding the answers to these questions is critical for moving deals forward or understanding why they may be stalled. The document emphasizes that preparation is key, and salespeople should plan their calls to ask these qualifying questions at appropriate times and confirm the answers to properly qualify deals and make closing easier.
Lecture 10 - B2B Marketing & Digital Customer Relationship Management.pptxFaizanGul6
The document provides an overview of business-to-business (B2B) marketing strategies and tactics for the digital age. It discusses developing buyer personas, identifying marketing channels, and creating and measuring marketing campaigns. Key points include developing a vision and goals, defining the target market and buyer persona through research, identifying appropriate marketing channels like blogs, social media and email, creating content like whitepapers and videos, and measuring performance to improve over time. The document also discusses shifts in the B2B buying process and how to adapt marketing approaches accordingly.
This document discusses key considerations for recruiting self-employed sales agents, including interview questions and etiquette. It provides guidance on narrowing the search criteria to find the best-suited agents. Common interview etiquette that agents expect is outlined, such as treating the agent as an equal partner, not an employee. The document also provides sample interview questions companies should ask agents to assess skills, experience, goals and work ethic, and questions agents may ask companies to evaluate compensation, support and opportunities. Overall traits of top-performing agents are discussed.
55 Customer Development Survey Questions!Wilson Pang
This document provides 55 survey questions to gather customer feedback across various goals, such as understanding customer motivations, identifying areas for improvement, and learning about the customer experience. The questions range from basic information about purchases and use of competitors' products to more strategic questions about business impacts, expectations, and opportunities for enhancing the customer relationship. The overarching goal is to use customer input to strengthen marketing, product development, and customer service.
Quick Tips: Becoming the Trusted Digital Media AdvisorTyler Aldridge
The document provides tips for effectively summarizing a client's current situation and desired situation in order to make recommendations. It advises asking open-ended questions about the client's business model, marketing efforts, and personal goals to understand where they are today and where they want to be. Understanding both the current and desired situations allows one to define a roadmap to help clients achieve their objectives. Sample questions are provided to evaluate the client's current situation in their business, marketing, and individual priorities as well as questions to understand their desired situation and priorities for the future.
The document provides tips for effectively summarizing a client's current situation and desired situation in order to make recommendations. It advises asking open-ended questions about the client's business model, marketing efforts, and personal goals to understand where they are today and where they want to be. Understanding both the current and desired situations allows one to define a roadmap to help clients achieve their objectives. Sample questions are provided to evaluate the client's current situation in their business, marketing, and individual priorities as well as questions to understand their desired situation and priorities for the future.
The document discusses effective strategies for nurturing business leads over extended sales cycles. It emphasizes that leads not closed on the initial outreach are still valuable and can become customers if properly nurtured. Specific recommendations include: developing a systematic nurturing process using targeted messaging; keeping prospects engaged through their research phase; addressing concerns to reduce risk; and offering help to move prospects through the buying process. Nurturing contacts over time increases the chances of converting them into customers.
This document discusses the importance of lead nurturing for B2B sales. It notes that 75% of leads are discarded without follow up, but nurtured leads are 3 times more likely to become customers. A case study shows how one company increased sales from older leads to 37% of customers through email nurturing. The document provides best practices for lead nurturing, including becoming an industry expert, educating sales, tracking results, and maintaining relationships with customers.
Sales Methodologies - A quick guide to boosting success - realSociableDalia Asterbadi
The document discusses the top 6 sales methodologies used today: SPIN Selling, Conceptual Selling, SNAP Selling, Solution Selling, Customer Centric Selling, and Challenger Selling. It provides an overview of each methodology and tips for how to effectively utilize them. It also discusses how technology like realSociable can help salespeople implement the methodologies by providing business intelligence, maximizing online opportunities, and reducing administrative work to focus on relationships. The document advocates integrating technology with sales methodologies to create velocity while maintaining a relationship-driven approach.
What makes a new business venture successful? This paper outlines the key questions every entrepreneur should ask and have answers for before they launch a new venture.
Join this webinar with Peter Armaly, Senior Director and Adviser for Customer Success at Oracle, who will share his experiences, discuss some research, and offer guidance and opinions on the issue of Customer Success programs not being treated equal to its Sales peers.
Join this webinar with Peter Armaly, Senior Director and Adviser for Customer Success at Oracle, who will share his experiences, discuss some research, and offer guidance and opinions on the issue of Customer Success programs not being treated equal to its Sales peers.
This document contains an introduction and three parts about using Socratic questioning techniques in sales. The introduction explains how Socrates used questions to lead his students to insights. Part 1 provides questions to identify prospects' needs, challenges, and pain points. Part 2 includes questions about determining budget, authority figures, and timelines. Part 3 discusses using questions to help prospects envision how the solution could create a better reality.
Define Your Sales Process To Grow Your BusinessRapidAdvance
It’s a great asset to your company to have an effective sales team. The sales team is the face of your company, and it’s not the size of the sales team that translates into more sales. Have an established and well-defined sales process. By “sales process” we mean a systematic and tested approach that help your sales team close deals and reduce friction in introducing products or services to the customer.
10 Survey Question You Should Ask Your CustomersRodrigo Fuentes
In support of this blog post: http://blog.listenloop.com/10-questions-for-your-customers
Your customers are a great source of information. They can help you improve your business and product, gain a better understanding of your market and even bring you referrals. But you're wondering, "what questions to ask in customer feedback session?"
Asking the right questions can be game-changing for your business. Here are 10 game-changing questions you should be asking your customers right now.
Start-ups are all the rage these days, everyone is trying to create the next facebook, twitter or whatever. Where's your idea for a killer startup?? Here's a template that will help you for sure. | abhishek.shah@live.com
This presentation summarizes a business seeking funding. The business operates in an industry experiencing growth and solves a problem experienced by many potential customers. It describes the business' solution, competitive advantages over alternatives, go-to-market strategy, and financial projections showing revenue growth and profitability. The business has achieved some milestones and has a qualified team to execute its plans, and is seeking funding to further develop its product and expand operations.
This presentation summarizes a business seeking funding. The business operates in an industry experiencing growth and solves a problem experienced by many potential customers. It describes the business's product or service, competitive advantages over alternatives, go-to-market strategy, and financial projections showing revenue growth and profitability. The business has achieved some initial milestones and has a qualified team to execute its plans, and is now requesting funding to further develop and launch its solution.
This presentation summarizes a business seeking funding. The business operates in an industry with a compelling problem that customers want solved. It has developed a technology or process that provides value to customers by solving this problem in a unique way compared to competitors. Financial projections show revenue growth over the next 3-5 years, but initial funding is needed to complete product development and begin marketing and sales efforts to reach profitability. The business is led by a qualified team and has already achieved some initial milestones, but is seeking an investment to further develop and launch the business.
Santosh Prasad outlines his approach to sales, which focuses on identifying and solving clients' problems rather than selling products. He emphasizes research, asking open-ended questions during discovery calls to understand client needs, and following up extensively after calls. His best sale came from thoroughly understanding a client's pain points and providing more benefits than they expected by offering better resources to complete additional tasks and save 25% on operational costs.
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This document provides a summary of 38 different cognitive biases and psychological triggers. It includes definitions of each bias, suggestions for where and how to use each bias (such as on landing pages, pricing pages, emails, etc.), and examples of how others have successfully leveraged certain biases. The goal is to help marketers, entrepreneurs and business owners optimize their marketing campaigns and designs by understanding how to leverage these unconscious decision-making tendencies.
This document provides guidance on strategic roadmap planning. It emphasizes that the most important part of roadmapping is setting the product vision and strategic goals through top-down planning before building the roadmap. It covers developing the product strategy, defining goals, integrating roadmapping with agile planning, addressing common challenges, and using metrics to support the strategy. The overall message is that roadmaps should communicate high-level strategy and priorities rather than detailed plans to align stakeholders and guide product development.
The document provides guidance on implementing a marketing automation system. It recommends:
1. Not overcomplicating the technical implementation and instead starting with a quick setup and testing phase to determine if the tool meets business needs before fully implementing.
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100 sales qualification questions - Hubspot
1. 101 Sales Qualification
Questions
From basic information to upselling existing customers, use these 101
sales questions throughout the various stages of the buying cycle.
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4. Introduction
Every great sale starts by answering questions – and these questions are essential for
qualifying contacts throughout every step of the buyer’s journey to see who would and
would not be a fitting customer for your business.
From the basics of name and location, to qualifying questions inspired by the BANT
framework (budget, need, authority, and timeline), to questions about closing and
upselling, below are 101 questions for you to ask in the sales process to continuously
qualify a prospect as ripe for a sale.
Read on for 101 sales qualification questions to keep in your sales arsenal.
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5. 1. What regions will you serve and not serve?
2. What is the lowest you’re able to discount?
3. What is the ideal size of your customer?
4. What industries do you serve?
5. What are your tradeoffs?
6. Who are your buyer personas?
7. How quickly are you able to go from
sale to handoff/implementation?
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6. Who are your buyer personas?
Developing a fictionalized version of your ideal customer,
known as a “buyer persona,” helps your sales team quickly
identify which leads are worth pursuing as prospective customers.
Before attempting to qualify a contact, ask yourself what you’re looking for in a potential
customer with these questions. Otherwise, you may be setting yourself up for a dissatisfied
customer and high churn rates.
6. 8. What is your name?
9. What is your email address?
10. What is your phone number?
11. What is your company name?
12. What is your company website?
13. What is your company’s location?
14. What is your job title?
15. Is your company business-to-business
or business-to-consumer?
16. Does your company offer products,
services, or both?
17. What industry are you in?
18. How many employees does
your company have?
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Awareness
Questions
Don’t forget to ask for basic information during early communication.
Typically, you can gather this information through a form for when
contacts download content or request more information from your company.
19. How many customers does your
company have?
20. How old is your company?
21. Would you like a demo/consultation?
22. Would you like to subscribe to our blog?
23. What is your social media handle?
24. Which of the following are you most
interested in learning more about?
24. Which of the following
are you interested in
learning more about?
On your forms, provide a list of options
your company addresses to see where
their needs and your solutions align.
7. BANT Questions
Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeline
The BANT framework for sales qualification hits the four main areas a salesperson needs to
address when working a lead. These questions should be asked on your first discovery call
and should set the standards for your negotiations with the potential buyer.
Budget Questions
25. Do you currently have a budget
allocated for this solution, or will you have
to make the case for one?
26. What is your budget for this solution?
27. Is [price range] within your budget?
28. How much have you spent on similar
solutions in the past?
29. What is your annual revenue?
30. Are you comfortable with our billing
cycle? (Annually, etc.)
31. Would you agree to annual billing if
we can provide a discount?
32. Would you be willing to meet us at
our price if it means great service?
Authority Questions
33. Are you the decision maker?
34. If not, who is the decision maker?
35. Is there anyone else in your company
you’d like or need to include in these
discussions?
36. Do you anticipate any pushback from
your colleagues or superiors against this
solution?
37. Who first decided to explore the idea
of this solution within your company?
38. What are the best times/days to follow
up with you for next steps throughout this
process?
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Budget
32. Would you be willing to
meet us at our price if it
means great service?
Better products tend to cost more. Get a feel
for this contact’s desire for great customer
service – especially if that’s something your
company prides itself on.
Authority
35. Is there anyone else in
your company you’d like or
need to include in these
discussions?
This questions identifies early on if there is a
superior, colleage, or coworker that would
need buy-in for the decision. Larger teams or
multiple decision makers mean you may have
to address the sale from multiple angles.
Need
43. One of the most common
issues we keep hearing about
is [blank]. Is this an issue for
you?
If your product and/or service addresses a
commonly faced but rarely addressed issue
or area for this company or individual, use this
question as an opportunity to let your
prospect know about it.
Timeline
49. What is your timeline for
making a decision?
Enterprise level deals could take years.
Purchases for smaller businesses or
individuals could occur within a day. Set the
proper standards for yourself and your leads
by determining a reasonable timeline for
negotiation, closing, and handoff.
9. 39. What are your biggest challenges this year?
40. What are your biggest priorities this year?
41. What has your growth been to date?
42. What are your business growth goals for this year?
43. One of the most common issues we keep hearing
about [blank]. Is this an issue for you?
44. Who are your biggest competitors?
45. What are your company’s competitive strengths
and weaknesses?
46. How much emphasis do you place on service in a
package like this?
47. What’s prompting you to do something about this challenge/opportunity now?
48. How urgent is the issue?
49. What is your timeline for making a decision?
50. What is your timeline for seeing results?
51. How long have you been facing this problem/dealing with these pain points?
52. How soon would you be open to install/onboarding/delivery?
Need Questions
Timeline
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Need
44. What are your
company’s competitive
strengths and
weaknesses?
Ask this question to see
if your product and/or
service can enhance their
strengths and help them
address their weaknesses
and turn them into strengths.
10. Business Impact Questions
53. What does quantitative success look like for your business?
54. What are your necessities from this deal should it happen?
55. What spillover benefits or qualitative results would you like to see from this deal?
56. What are your normal daily tasks so I can better understand how we could help you?
57. How do you see your business needs changing as your company evolves?
58. Which teams/departments would be affected/would benefit from this?
59. Should we make a deal, who would need to be ramped up/trained on your end?
60. To what extent does seasonality impact your business?
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Understanding the specific impact your solution will have for this one potential client –
rather than understanding the general impact of your product on a similar client – helps
you provide more personalized service and a custom approach for a more likely sale.
55. What spillover benefits or
qualitative results would you
like to see from this deal?
Soft benefits – such as clearer
communication, more efficiency, and less
stress throughout the work day – can make
the sale more enticing if you can
deliver them.
57. How do you see your
business needs changing
as your company evoles?
Businesses change all the time. Get an
understanding for how the contact’s needs
will shift in the future to get a solid
understanding of how you will – or won’t –
be able to support.
11. 61. Have you tried a solution like ours
in the past?
62. If/when you tried to address this
issue in the past, what was the result?
63. Why did you choose to consider us?
64. What do you know about us, our
product, and/or our service?
65. Are you exploring any other options
or consulting with any other solution in
our industry?
66. What is it about [competitor] that
has you considering them?
67. How did you hear about us?
68. Would we be replacing a current
solution/supplier, or is this your first time
working with a company in this industry?
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Competitor &
Industry Questions
You can use the sales qualification process to better understand your
own industry and understand your positioning in your maket better.
69. Which company or provider are you
currently working with for this?
70. Do you have a contract with one of our
competitors?
71. Why did you initially choose to go with
that company?
72. Why are you considering changing
suppliers/partners at this time?
73. What specifically are you looking for
in a deal with a new provider/partner?
74. Why are you unsatisfied with the current
solution/state?
75. Is there any chance you’ll decide to stay
with your current solution, or are you
definitely moving on?
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75. Is there any chance you’ll decide to stay with your
current solution, or are you definitely moving on?
This helps you gauge how committed to your competitor they are. Maybe they’re
just price shopping, or maybe they’re ready to abandon ship. All of this impacts the
likelihood of the deal.
70. Do you have a contract with one of
our competitors?
If someone has an existing contract, that could impact timeline and budget.
You may be forced with the decision of whether or not to help buy the prospect
out of its current contract.
67. How did you hear about us?
This question provides helpful feedback for your marketing team. Even if it’s
anecdotal, knowledge on how your contacts came to know of your company can
help you position yourself in front of the right audience, with the right medium, at
the right time.
13. 76. What’s the best way to communicate with you moving forward?
77. It seems like this would be a good fit for you. What do you think?
78. Do you have any concerns I can address at this time?
79. Are there any reasons why we can’t move forward at this time?
80. Based on what I’ve described, do you believe what I’m able to offer can address
your needs?
81. Does this sound like something that would be beneficial to your business?
82. Right now, what would you say could stop us from working together?
83. Do you have any concerns about how our product/service would work?
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Advancement
Questions
As the deal gets closer, ask these questions to see if you’ll actually close and
to address any final roadblocks.
77. It seems like this would be a good fit for you.
What do you think?
Open-ended questions give the platform to the person you’re working with. In this
case, prospects might struggle to come up with a concern, or might raise a potential
red flag. Either way, you’re given feedback on how close you are to closing.
14. 84. If we meet your price, is there any reason you wouldn’t make a deal with me today?
85. If I could find a way to address that final concern, would that be enough to make you
feel comfortable signing today?
86. What if I can offer free [upgrade]? Would that make you feel comfortable signing
today?
87. Are you all set to review the contract?
88. Can you commit to doing business by signing a contract today?
89. I can only guarantee this price until [date] – does that time frame work for you?
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84. If we meet your
price, is there any
reason you wouldn’t
make a deal with me
today?
Oftentimes, there are other concerns
than price. Once a number is agreed
upon, make sure there’s nothing else
holding the prospect back from
making the deal.
86. What if I can
offer free [upgrade]?
Would that make you
feel comfortable
signing today?
If a prospect is looking for one last
freebie before signing, ask this
question to see if that’s the case. If not,
there’s a bigger issue to address
before moving forward with the sale.
Closing Questions
Time to seal the deal. Ask these questions to see if your prospect is headed to the finish line.
15. 93. What’s changed in the past [timeline] that makes you want to consider working
with us again?
94. Is [price range] still the budget you’re looking at?
95. Has anything else pertaining to our deal changed since we last touched base?
90. Would you consider us in the future should things not work out?
91. Why is it that you’ve decided to say no at this time?
92. Could we connect again in six months?
Revisit Questions
Resurfaced Lead Questions
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If a prospect says no, they may just need a few more months to come back and sign. And if
they do come back, you’ll want to know what’s changed since you last spoke.
Closed – Not Now Questions
91. Why is it you’ve decided to say no at this time?
This question is imperative for company-wide loss analysis. Plus, if there’s a chance of
working this lead in the future, it’s good to know exactly why it didn’t work out this time.
16. Upselling Questions
96. Has our product/service lived up to your expectations?
97. Have you seen improvement to your revenue with our product?
98. Have you thought about renewing/reordering?
99. Is there anything we need to address that would keep you from reordering/renewing?
100. Have you looked into our solution on [blank]?
101. Do you need assistance in [area], which we have a solution/offering for?
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Don’t forget – you can qualify and sell to existing customers through upselling or
reordering. If you think a customer could use more of your offering, ask these questions.
97. Have you seen
improvement to your revenue
with our product/service?
If clients admit they’re seeing a revenue or
profit boost because of your company,
that means they realize the value of it
and may be open to what else you offer.
100. Have you looked into our
solution on [blank]?
If you’ve released a new product or
feature that addresses a common issue,
your clients may not know about it. This
is your chance to see if they have, and if
they would want to purchase it.
96. Has our product/service lived up to your expectations?
If your client isn’t in a good place with your company, it would be wiser to address their
pain points before asking for more of their money.