How Sales and Marketing can excel in a world in flux

By / / 12 Sales Trends Pages Category, Attitudes & Behaviours, Collaboration, Marketing, Sales Driven Organisations, Sales Results, Sales Trends

In this sales trend from the Barrett’s 12 Sales Trends Report for 2018, David Hubbard explains what sales and marketing can do working together to excel at generating revenue.

Who’s in flux? The Buyer. They have dramatically changed how they identify, evaluate and purchase solutions over the past 10 years, and they continue to evolve. Every member of the buyer team for B2B and considered B2C purchases has instant mobile access to the information they need throughout each stage of their purchasing process.  Even when they are fully engaged with us, they are constantly interacting with our competitor’s information.

As a …

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The differences between business, sales, and marketing strategies

By / / Marketing, Sales Strategy, Social Sales, Strategy

This week we thought we would touch on the differences between business, sales, and marketing strategies. The reason for that is that there’s usually confusion between sales and marketing strategies. To avoid confusion, it’s always good to look at definitions.

Michael Porter defines strategy as the set of choices that define a company’s distinctive approach to competing, and the competitive advantages on which it will be based. There are two different levels: corporate strategy, which is the strategy for the business overall (the portfolio of businesses); and business strategy, which determines how each business will compete. Business strategy is a high …

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Back to sales basics

By / / Attitudes & Behaviours, CRM, Education in Sales, Marketing, Prospecting, Sales Driven Organisations, Sales Essentials, Sales Results, Sales Tips, Social Media

I like to keep on top of what is current, what is emerging, and what is still an idea. This is why I make time each week to do research as it helps me navigate my way around the present and into the future. However, I am finding there is so much to read, so much to get my head around, and so much to integrate into my business that it can take up a lot of time… and it only seems to be increasing.

This is why I want to get back to basics.

As I wade through all of the …

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Sales Trend 8 – Ordinary Sales Organisations Do More. Extraordinary Sales Organisations Achieve More

By / / 12 Sales Trends Pages Category, Attitudes & Behaviours, Collaboration, Marketing, Sales Driven Organisations, Sales Results, Sales Trends, Social Sales

Sales Trend 8 from our 12 Sales Trends for 2017 explore how extraordinary sales organisations can work with marketing to achieve more.

With the help of technological disruption, buyers in the past 10 years have dramatically changed how they identify opportunities, evaluate alternatives, and purchase solutions.

What has changed?

Buyers are no longer calling the vendor to learn what’s new or to request information like they did before. They have become self-educating; consuming online information whenever they wish.

  • Buyers rely less on initial telephone / in-person meetings with vendors and more on consuming information online.
  • Buyers rely less on tradeshows / networking events and …

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Driving Sales with Marketing Automation – Part III of III

By / / Collaboration, CRM, Marketing, Sales Driven Organisations, Social Media, Social Sales

5 things to be wary of when implementing marketing automation in your business

Rishad Sukhia, Director of Brightlabs and Sue Barrett, Founder and CEO of Barrett Consulting Group are back to look at ‘5 things to be wary of when implementing marketing automation in your business’ as part of the ‘Driving Sales with Marketing Automation’ series of 3 articles.

There are many things to be wary of in this space. There are lots of false prophets and digital content marketing gurus out there promising nirvana in this space. As Sue points out, too many people still want to avoid the topic and …

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Driving Sales with Marketing Automation – Part II of III

By / / Collaboration, CRM, Marketing, Sales Driven Organisations, Social Media, Social Sales

5 ways to implement marketing automation in your business

Rishad Sukhia, Director of Brightlabs and Sue Barrett, Founder and CEO of Barrett Consulting Group are back to look at ‘5 ways to implement marketing automation in your business’ as part of the ‘Driving Sales With Marketing Automation’ series of 3 articles.

Sue states that delivering effective sales and marketing strategies requires a disciplined approach. ‘Less is more’ is also a good reminder when looking at how to get the best results out of Marketing Automation.

Before you launch marketing automation you first need content that aligns with your sales strategy, your purpose, your …

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Driving Sales with Marketing Automation – Part I of III

By / / Collaboration, CRM, Marketing, Sales Driven Organisations, Social Media, Social Sales

The ‘Driving Sales with Marketing Automation’ series of 3 articles has been developed by Rishad Sukhia, Director of Brightlabs and Sue Barrett, Founder and CEO of Barrett. Rishad and Sue will present ideas, concepts, research and findings about how to make the most of marketing automation and sales activation.

Why?

Because marketing automation has become the new digital buzzword, with many adopting it under the impression that it is a quick fix for lead generation and repetitive tasks. While its popularity is evident you will find it is not the silver bullet to more sales in of itself. Like anything, we need …

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The difference between Sales and Marketing Segmentation

By / / Marketing, Sales Market Segmentation, Sales Strategy

To segment or not to segment that is the question.

For too long sales has allowed marketing to dictate what a segment should be. But the simple reality is that sales segmentation and marketing segmentation are substantially different. In fact, it is these very differences that make sales strategy so different from marketing and even corporate strategies.

Marketing defines segments as “A group of people that share one or more demographic and / or psychographic characteristics”.

However, sales people deal with people, not groups.

Traditional segmentation usually takes into account how attractive a segment is to a company, and how competitive …

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What is Social Selling? And does it work?

By / / Marketing, Social Sales

Social selling is not a new phenomenon as many might think.

Social Selling has been around for many years in various forms and is the process of developing one-on-one relationships as part of the sales process. Today, this often takes place via digital social networks such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram; however, it can take place both online and offline.

Social Selling is most widely used in B2B selling, especially in complex sales, but it is also used in more complex B2C sales environments, e.g. financial advisory services, automotive, real estate.

Social Selling is sometimes confused with social marketing but they are …

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Sales Trend 9 – Marketing technology for better sales results

By / / Brand & Reputation, Collaboration, CRM, Marketing, Sales Forecasting, Sales Measures - Inputs & Outputs, Sales Pipeline, Sales Results, Sales Trends

Guest co-author: David Hubbard CEO, Founder and Revenue Growth Expert for Marketing Outfield, New York, USA

Sales Trend 9 from our  12 Sales Trends Report for 2016 is about using Marketing technology for better sales results.

Sales and Marketing Technology – Which Trends Should You Pay Attention To?

No wonder we are confused. The number of vendors providing Advertising, Marketing OR Sales technology “solutions” has exploded in the last couple of years with it becoming a large multi-billion dollar industry with revenues growing at double digit percentages annually. There are now over 3000 vendors (and more in …

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