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Go Beyond Sales Enablement To Engage The Modern Buyer, Matt Suggs

Say hello to the evolved selling solution

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  • Army Engineer

  • Employee #393 at Ariba before being acquired by SAP

  • Employee #10 at MediaFly, now with 75

  • Concentration of staff in Chicago with several on the West Coast

  • Put in the effort to stay connected to your remote staff

  • Traveling helps him stay connected with his sales team

  • Mediafly is used in front of your customer to create a seamless presentation

  • Track the experience and leverage machine learning and call tracking with sharing tracking

  • Use Mediafly instead of PowerPoint!

  • B2B buyers are frustrated with educating salespeople

  • Reduce friction between buyers and sellers by giving appropriate levels of information to educate and create mystique

  • Have a sales conversation vs giving a one-way presentation

  • Understand your personas

  • Send relevant insights specific to their industries to get the attention of your B2B prospects

  • Cold calling and direct outreach can and does work

  • Forrester published “Death of a Salesman,” but a professional sales person is still needed

  • B2B buyers still have access to data, now more than ever

    • So they are educated from online information, colleagues, analysts, and even social media sites and forums

    • But not all of the information is correct

  • Now we have to consider the problems of the customer as well as what they think they know.

  • Email marketing

    • Have a good hook in your email subject line

    • Open rates are declining

    • Insert good leads into nurturing campaigns

    • Leverage multi-media, multi-touch marketing to stay top-of-mind

  • It’s tough to get into a large enterprise with a door-to-door visit

  • Expand into similar / related industries

  • Get clear on knowing what the prospect doesn’t know but thinks they know!

  • Show up by adding value

    • 74% would buy from the first sales person that brought critical insights to them

  • Automate more transactions so you can focus on value-added services

    • Switching-costs are declining

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