Posted on April 6th, 2010
Michael Levy
Product Marketing Manager, OneSource
When selling to other companies, we often forget that what we are selling are solutions to problems. It is easy to fall back onto the feature sheet and comparative checklists, but a good salesperson intuitively understands her customers’ pains and asks questions to understand their requirements and underlying needs.
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Posted on April 1st, 2010
Being dynamic these days is the key to success – both with your sales tools and your sales approach. It’s especially important to be on-point in a sales 2.0 world where information is so readily available. Often, prospects find information about your company/services and come to you for information before you’re able to verify that [more...]
Posted on March 26th, 2010
Recent economic reports indicate the recession is coming to an end and a survey conducted by OneSource shows that B2B sales professionals agree with that sentiment – approximately 50 percent surveyed saying that their 2010 sales pipelines are healthier than this same time last year.
But let’s not put on the rose-colored glasses just yet. OneSource’s [more...]
Posted on March 25th, 2010
Sales reps are interesting creatures. If asked, most would tell you that they want the freedom to do what they want, when they want to do it. However, if left to their own devices, your sales team would probably do whatever made sense to them at a moment without much of a plan. Obviously this [more...]
Posted on March 18th, 2010
Are you doing all you can to prepare yourself for a sales call? It is extremely important it is to be in touch with the latest information about your clients and prospects in order to make a better sale. This is not limited to how much they buy or how frequently they buy-take your sales [more...]
Posted on March 17th, 2010
As you have heard by now, social media is becoming a more important and widely used tool by sales and marketing professionals. In a recent survey conducted by Outsell and covered in eMarketer on expected B2B marketer spending on social networking, Outsell asked respondents to rate the different social media sites in terms of there effectiveness. Somewhat surprisingly, Facebook came out [more...]
Posted on March 8th, 2010
Today is the first day of the Sales 2.0 Conference in San Francisco and surprisingly the conference has grown significantly to around 350 attendees this year from only about 50 a few years ago. Geoffrey James of BNET is giving first hand impressions of the conference as it happens, and he posed the question as to [more...]
Posted on March 5th, 2010
In this era of web 2.0, where social networking sites dominate the social and now the business scene, it is difficult to tell just how beneficial some of these sites are for B2B purposes. OneSource Information Services recently conducted its own primary research on the topic, asking B2B sales professionals about the types of information [more...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2010
Sales is a multi-step process that takes time and persistence. For many sales professionals, obtaining timely, accurate information is the key to opening the door of a sales prospect – but what do you do once that door is open? One of the most important steps in the sales process is following up with your [more...]
Posted on February 26th, 2010
Everyone in business has goals that they set for themselves periodically, but meeting those goals on time is something that not everyone achieves. No one knows this better than people in sales. Ask a few sales reps how they plan to meet their goals this quarter and you’ll hear a lot of well-meaning, but vague [more...]