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What is Bottom of the Funnel (BOFU)?

Upland

It represents the culmination of their journey, where they have progressed through the earlier stages and are now highly engaged and ready to make a purchase. At every stage of this journey, marketers employ targeted strategies to guide potential customers toward making a purchase decision.

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The 5 Key Steps to Starting a Sales Career in Digital Marketing

Hubspot Sales

The practice — leveraging digital mediums like email, video, and social media to facilitate customer acquisition — has multiple facets, including elements related to sales. It's separated into three stages: awareness, consideration, and decision. Make sure your social media profiles are fully fleshed out. Image Source: HubSpot.

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The Proven Process for Developing a Go-to-Market Strategy

Hubspot Sales

decision makers for every sale who have a say in whether a product is purchased. These people make up what is called the “buying center.”. Decision maker: gives final approval for the purchase. They show this through digital behavior like downloading an ebook or joining a webinar. On average, there are 6.8

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Inbound Sales: How to Sell the Way Prospects Buy

Hubspot Sales

Today, the information that buyers need to make a purchase decision is just a click away. Before they ever pick up a phone or send an email, they make it a priority to understand their buyer’s world. In the decision stage, buyers have decided on a solution category. Who needs to be involved in the decision?

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What You Need to Know About the Challenger Sales Model

Corporate Visions

In his article, Moore argues that salespeople must help customers “see their competitive challenges in a new light that makes addressing specific painful problems unmistakably urgent.”. Tailor their sales pitch to resonate with the decision-makers’ specific issues and get buy-in from the entire organization.

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How to Drive More Growth from Customer Expansion Conversations

Corporate Visions

If you’re like most companies, you focus the lion’s share of your growth budget on-demand generation and customer acquisition. In other words, the majority of sales and marketing spend goes to customer acquisition, which only amounts to 20-30 percent of your customer lifecycle. Not customer expansion. Hope you’re doing well!

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What’s Your Strategy for Sales Talent Development? Part 2

Mike Kunkle

Developing general “success skills” or business skills (communication, problem-solving, organization/time management, decision making, etc.). I should note that these practices can have impact – especially improving discretionary effort – so even from a purely business-oriented angle, they do make sense.

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