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Bootstrapping Relevance: Making Web Conversions Meaningful for Long Sales Cycles

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Often, little more than a form fill tells you about the potential for a five-figure sale months down the road. Google Analytics insights frequently end with raw counts of goal completions, leaving a yawning gap between on-site behavior and sales for companies with long sales cycles. Analyze and act on that data.

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

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While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. We’re not shotgunning emails to the masses, and 150-300 per week is a list you can curate. The strategy in a nutshell.

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Referral Programs: A Guide for Small Business

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Shorten the sales cycle A strong referral program can significantly shorten the sales cycle. Some examples are; create content together, create special offers for each other's clients, create co-marketing opportunities, interview each other, host webinars for each other's audiences, hold events together, etc.

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A Complete Guide to Account-Based Marketing: Win Over Your Ideal Customer

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This shift in focus results in more efficient use of your marketing budget, shorter sales cycles, and a better customer experience. ABM teams then began curating content and tagging it by use case, industry, and persona. They haven’t completed a form, joined a webinar, or requested a demo. Test different channels.

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New Tasks For Salespeople In The Social Era

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They also expect the rest of the formerly extended sales cycle to shrink to a shorter, more compressed period of time. These enable sales reps to quickly follow up with pinpointed answers to a buyer’s questions. Curate and provide content of value to the customer. Use data to act on buying signals.

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Employee Advocacy: Empowering Your Teams on Social Media

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Turning employees into advocates can shorten the sales cycle, boost growth, and help your team differentiate from the crowd. . By imploring your team to share blog posts they’ve written, webinars they’ve run, and projects they’ve worked on, you’re getting your brand name out there in a favorable light.