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Top Tactics for Selling to a Buying Committee

Brooks Group

Lack of clear authority, conflicting priorities, and the logistics of keeping 7, 10, or 12 people in the loop make the B2B buying process an increasingly tough sale. These stakeholders typically fall into four primary categories: Decision Makers Decision makers hold the ultimate authority for the purchase.

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How complex is your complex sale? An analogy with Judo belts

KAM With Passion

A procurement person is chartered to buy concrete for a construction site or stainless-steel bolts and screws for a maker of industrial machines. Typical roles are the sponsor, the decision-maker, evaluators (experts), users (quite often from various teams), procurement, gatekeeper (with various interpretations of what this means).

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Selling to the C-Suite: Strategies for Reaching Executive Decision Makers

Brooks Group

Purchase decisions often involve multiple stakeholders and a longer sales cycle. Tactical or logistical decisions are made daily by frontline employees. Personnel = tactical/logistical buyers. Have experts on your team who can speak to different functional areas like finance, operations, marketing, etc. Follow up and persist.

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14 Questions to Ask in a Win-Loss Review to Help You Sell Better

Hubspot Sales

It’s entirely possible that one person, say the CMO, could be 100% on board with your product, but procurement vetoed the deal. Don’t lose as a result of neglecting to get all the key stakeholders together. Address each person’s specific needs -- what a CMO wants is different than what procurement is looking for.

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How to lead your clients into the future, with Kathryn Strachan

Account Management Skills

If you want to be the best copywriter you can possibly be, working someplace that you do not have to worry about any of the logistics, or sales or invoices or marketing is way better for you. That’s a very brilliant way to re-engage particularly with stakeholders like you said, that you have not met.

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The Straightforward Guide to Value Chain Analysis

Hubspot Sales

Once the value chain analysis is complete, the primary stakeholders in the business can see an overview of where the business is excelling and where improvements can be made operationally. Inbound Logistics. Outbound Logistics. Outbound logistics describes this delivery process. Procurement. Inbound Logistics.

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Seismic Acquires Percolate to Create Exceptional Content Experiences at Every Point in the Customer Journey

SBI

Sales Asset Management: Procuring Your Short-Cut to Productivity In modern B2B interactions, it’s crucial that the right content be available at the right time, to. 6 Steps to Double Lead Generation at Your Next Tradeshow It’s no small investment to exhibit at trade shows: Booth cost, logistics, and swag are. Sales Asset Management.