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5 mai 2014

How Buyers Buy… and four ways Marketing can help them choose you

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This time I wanted to share an interesting article from Marketing Profs with you, which is based on a survey by Mike Schultz and John Doerr. The article is called “How Buyers Buy… and four ways Marketing can help them choose you”

How Buyers Buy… and four ways Marketing can help them choose you

With the Internet, the Great Recession, and intensification of competition in many industries, the way buyers buy has changed. Buyers are busier, they have more choices, and they are better informed than ever.

So what are the companies that are bringing in new customers and growing their accounts doing that’s different?

To find out, bestselling authors and world-renowned sales experts Mike Schultz and John Doerr went to the source: buyers themselves. They surveyed over 700 B2B buyers responsible for $3.1 billion in annual purchases. They wanted to know what the winners of actual sales opportunities are doing that’s different from what others are doing and published the results in Insight Selling: Surprising Research on What Sales Winners Do Differently.

Seven factors rose to the top as those that most separate winners from second-place finishers. These factors are displayed in the image on the right.

Although those factors directly relate to what the seller did during the sales process, there are four core ways Marketing can help support Sales to do those things.

1. Connect buyer needs and your company’s solutions

“Listened to me” and “understood my needs” were the No. 4 and No. 5 factors, respectively, among those that most separated the winners from the rest. Factor No. 7 was “crafted a compelling solution.” It’s often Marketing’s role to understand buyer needs and develop materials and insights that hit on buyer hot buttons. Most companies, however, leave it up to individual sellers to come up with all the ways to match needs to solutions.

At the same time, Marketing tends to have reams of data for how their offerings benefit the customer. Marketing can and should create playbooks—graphs, charts, grids, and so on—that show how specific buyer needs match up to company products and services as solutions.

To make it relevant for sellers, marketers should collaborate with sales leaders to come up with questions that sellers can ask to uncover needs across different categories. By asking those questions, sellers demonstrate that they are listening to buyers, at the same time uncovering a broader set of buyer needs.

This kind of tool—and appropriate training on how to use it—can have a major impact on sellers’ consistently connecting the dots between needs and solutions.

2. Educate buyers with new ideas and perspectives

Of the 42 factors we studied, the No. 1 factor that separated winners from second-place finishers was that sellers educated buyers with new ideas and perspectives. In marketing lingo, we’re talking about content marketing. It’s never too early to start educating buyers via valuable content on your website and blog.

Later in the sales process, companies often leave it up to sellers to figure how to educate buyers on their own. But it’s marketers who are masters of storytelling, crafters of the best PowerPoint slides, and producers of insightful content such as whitepapers, videos, research, articles, webinars, and the rest.

The more Marketing supports sellers to provide and introduce those new ideas and perspectives proactively to buyers, the more sellers will sell and the happier everyone will be.

3. Persuade buyers they will achieve worthwhile results

“Persuaded me we would achieve results” was the No. 3 factor among those that most separated sales winners from second-place finishers. That statement has two important parts: (1) results and (2) some reason buyers believed they could achieve them.

This is truly an area in which Marketing can shine by producing… Case studies that demonstrate how results were achieved with clients Testimonials—text and video—featuring buyers and their experiences and results Research and trend data to support that the new idea, whatever it is, is the wave of the future, and that those companies employing said strategy will succeed in the new business environment Presentation decks to help sellers explain new ideas and showcase the return-on-investment case

These kinds of marketing pieces not only help buyers see what results are possible but also build a buyer’s desire to achieve those results.

Brand awareness and perception also play a key role here. The stronger a company’s brand, the more likely buyers will believe that similar results are within their reach.

4. Collaborate with buyers

The No. 2 factor among those that most separated winners from second-place finishers was “collaborated with me.” Marketing is often instrumental in creating platforms for its customer base and market for interacting with the company.

Platforms can be as simple as running online and offline events, or as involved as creating robust online communities. Either way, Marketing can create the perception, and provide the platform, for the company to be collaborative and customer-focused

This Blog was originally posted by Marketing Profs

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