How to drive growth with a buyer driven B2B sales approach
- E24
- 41:22
- December 4th 2019
In this episode, Michael Haynes, a B2B customer and marketing strategy specialist and author of the book Listen Innovate and Grow shares the best ways to drive growth with a buyer driven B2B sales approach. Insights he shares include:
- How to know when you have the right understanding of the customer and the market
- Why businesses often struggle with sharing of customer information
- How to get to the heart of what the buyer and user is experiencing
- How to identify with buyers and users in your market or industry
- How to address the needs of the dual customer experience
- How to target B2B corporate customers and cater to influencers in those organizations
- How to make sure that your content is on point, and that leads to a better set of expectations and user experience?
- Why digital is not everything and how to best incorporate face to face meetings to create better customer experiences
- How to focus on creating experiences, then emotions which deepen relationships
- The critical component to creating customer experiences that resonate
- How to ensure you have the right growth framework
- How the listen innovate grow framework can help
- How to use customer journey maps to provide the inputs we need
- Why understanding your own business is critical to the sales process
- How to strengthen your value proposition
- How to nurture customers in their respective buyer journeys
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