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Reach the Global Market: Send Personalized Demos in a Prospect’s Native Tongue
by Garin Hess | Mar 29, 2017 | sales, consensus
Why is No One Talking about Video for Sales?
by Garin Hess | Mar 27, 2017 | sales
Business2Communityrecently cited media content marketingas one of the B2B marketing trends to look out for in 2017. They write, "It’s easy to see why video and photos are...
read moreUsing "Intra-viral" Automated Demos to Discover and Engage the B2B Buying Group
by Garin Hess | Mar 22, 2017 | Demo Production, sales, consensus
How can we leverage the concept of something "going viral" in B2B sales? Isn't this usually a marketing thing? To close B2B sales faster, we need to discover and engage the buying...
read moreDynamically Personalized Demo Videos = Shorter Sales Cycles
by Garin Hess | Mar 20, 2017 | sales
What once was a clear line between where marketing ended and sales began, has become less and less defined in today’s B2B world. As customer’s buying behaviors have drastically...
read moreThe B2B Sales Team that Never Talks to a Bad Lead
by Garin Hess | Mar 15, 2017 | sales
Ben Cohen (Wall Street Journal), recently wrote an article titled "The Basketball Team that Never Takes a Bad Shot", profiling the Pine City, Minnesota (USA) high school...
read moreStartup Leadership: The Principle of Primary Focus
by Garin Hess | Mar 13, 2017 | entrepreneurship
There are a lot of reasons new startups don’t work out: interpersonal bickering among founders, undercapitalization, lack of validation in product market fit, unbridled optimism...
read more3 Biggest SaaS Sales Tips to Impact My Career
by Garin Hess | Mar 08, 2017 | sales
I’m not a sales leader or seasoned vet with years of experience. I am a student of sales, three years into my time at CONSENSUSworking with pros specializing in the B2B sales...
read moreQualtrics Insight Summit: Highlights from Beats by Dre CMO
by Garin Hess | Mar 07, 2017 | Marketing
Omar Johnson, CMO of Beats by Dre, took the stage at Qualtrics Insight Summit last week in Salt Lake City. He shared some incredible insight into the business and marketing world...
read moreSales: Is It Time to Rethink End-of-Month Strategy?
by Garin Hess | Feb 28, 2017 | sales
"End-of-month selling behaviors common to most business-to-business sales organizations have a negative impact on overall sales win rates and deal sizes." These were the findings...
read moreGroup Buying Dysfunction in B2B Sales: It’s Still a Problem
by Garin Hess | Feb 22, 2017 | sales
Remember when CEB revealed last year that the average buying group size had jumped from 5.4 stakeholders to a staggering 6.8 - with predictions that number would only continue to...
read moreSales and Marketing: Personalize to the Persona or Person?
by Garin Hess | Feb 19, 2017 | Marketing
Personalization is the latest buzz word in the world of B2B marketing and sales. We’ve come to realize that mass generic emails and cold calls with blanket sales pitches not only...
read moreWhat Personalized Sales Content Really Means
by Garin Hess | Feb 14, 2017 | sales
We're obsessed with the concept of "personalizing" everything nowadays. As more B2C marketing and selling strategies seem to bleed into B2B strategies, personalization is no...
read moreAccelerate Pipeline Production: The Power of Personalized Demo Automation in Pre-Sales
by Garin Hess | Feb 07, 2017 | sales, consensus
While all the glory may be in the closed deal, we can’t forget that the effort we invest in marketing and pre-sales is what landed us the seat at the table in the first place....
read moreThree Levels of Branching Demo Automation
by Garin Hess | Feb 02, 2017 | sales, consensus
The patented branching demo automation technologyy that drives CONSENSUS enables prospects to self-select their way through personalized video demo of your product or solution and...
read moreWhat Do B2B Buyers Care About?
by Garin Hess | Jan 31, 2017 | sales
I previously wrote that if you don't start thinking like buyers, your close rate will plummet. I said, sparking some controversy, that there are no such thing as complex...
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