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The Verdict Is In: It’s Buying Groups For The Win
MQLs are a barrier to your organization’s progress. Discover how you can begin your shift to buying groups with just three steps.
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With B2B Sales Disruption On The Doorstep, What’s Next?
A handful of forces are shaping the next decade of selling, which will be a B2B sales supercycle — an extended period of growth and transformation. Discover how AI affects B2B sales, as well as the characteristics and implications of this upcoming future.
Replay: Win Over Complex Buying Groups With Adaptive Programs
B2B buying groups are more complex than ever. Discover how to align priorities, drive consensus, and boost marketing’s impact with adaptive programs. Watch the webinar replay for buyer insights based on research.
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Stuck Stage-Zero Opportunities Expose Critical Gaps In Sales Processes
Expose the root cause behind stuck stage-zero opportunities and whose responsibility it is to progress them.
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Sync Or Swim: Mastering B2B Processes
In today’s fast-paced business environment, operational excellence is crucial. Successful organizations categorize and sequence every B2B process, identifying and addressing breakdowns effectively. The Forrester B2B Process Chain Framework provides seven categories — strategize, plan, design, build, deploy, measure, and optimize — that help visualize and synchronize interconnected B2B processes. This alignment ensures excellence and adaptability, supporting sales and marketing teams.
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Buyer Enablement — Five B2B Companies That Do It Well
Helping buyers complete more tasks on their own may seem counterintuitive to selling, but the resulting hybrid approach works better for both buyer and seller. Read five examples of companies that effectively help prospects complete self-service buying tasks.
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OK, AI, Buy Me Some Enterprise Software
If your buyers use generative AI to research your product and don’t put you on their shortlist, how would you even know? B2B buyers are rapidly adopting genAI, changing how they shop, so B2B companies need to start preparing for much smarter shoppers.
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Self-Service Buying Is A Wake-Up Call For B2B Sales
Nearly two-thirds of B2B sales leaders told us that digital buying behaviors would have a significant impact on their organization in the next two years. Yet only 37% said digitizing the buyer’s journey is a top priority. It’s time to get serious about self-service.
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Focus On Customer Value To Deliver B2B Customer Growth
Last week, I presented at my 10th, and final, Forrester B2B Summit North America. I say final not because the event is ending but because I’m retiring from Forrester in June of this year. One of my sessions introduced the Forrester Customer-Led Sales Growth Model, which was a perfect way to summarize my views on […]
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Are B2B Buyers Cowards?
No matter how big a game a buyer talks, less than a third of all buyers are risk-tolerant. Trust is the remedy to risk — and trusted companies are more likely to win and retain customers and enjoy a strong buyer preference.
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B2B Summit North America 2024: Your Ticket To Turning Disruption Into Growth
Explore the strategies and tools needed to drive customer-obsessed growth at our premier event for B2B marketing, sales, and product teams.
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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: How Does Marketing’s Life Change?
There are five key ways that marketing’s role changes when making the shift to buying groups and opportunities. Find out what they are in this week’s Saying Goodbye to MQLs blog.
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What Google’s New Spam Protection Means For Sales And Marketing
Learn more about the impending changes to Gmail and Yahoo spam rules, along with what you can do about it.
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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: A Parting That Is All Sweet And No Sorrow
Adopting the revenue waterfall for demand management brings many benefits, meaning that parting with leads can be all sweet and no sorrow.
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Shift From Manual To Automated Account Planning To Deliver Results
I’ve been involved with account planning programs for over 30 years — first as a sales rep, then as a sales manager, then as a sales operations leader, and, finally, as an analyst and advisor. And in all that time, resistance by sellers to the process of creating and leveraging account plans remains high. Why? […]
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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: Six MQL Myths Squashed To Shift Your Leads-Based Culture
A major challenge when switching from MQLs to buying groups is changing your organization’s culture and mindset, as well. Learn more in this week’s Saying Goodbye to MQLs blog.
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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: What Changes In The RDR Function When We Move To Buying Groups?
Whether you realize it or not, revenue development reps are already working with buying groups. Learn how to formalize this process internally today.
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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: Learn How Reltio Transformed Its Revenue Process In 60 Days
Curious of how long the shift to buying groups and opportunities takes? Register for Forrester’s webinar to find out how Reltio made this transformation in just 60 days.
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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: We Promise It’s Not Clickbait!
In this week’s Saying Goodbye To MQLs blog, we address some of the questions we’ve received while publishing this blog series.
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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: When Should We Create The Opportunity Entity?
In this week’s Saying Goodbye to MQLs blog, we identify three common points in the revenue process where organizations can create the opportunity entity.
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Saying Goodbye To MQLs: How Does The Buyer’s Journey Change In A Buying Group World?
Learn what changes and what stays the same when you're shifting away from MQLs and toward opportunities and buying groups.
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