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Competition vs Collaboration – What Drives High-Performing Sales?
Competition is in our nature. We compete against other teams or individuals in sports, we compete with siblings for our parents’ attention, we compete with our peers for the best jobs, we compete with coworkers for a raise or promotion. Sales in particular is known for its dog-eat-dog, quota-oriented nature, which serves to basically position…
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How Your Treasury Sales Team Can Overcome the Doorway Effect
Did you know that walking through a doorway triggers the brain to forget? You get off the couch and leave the room for a glass of water, but by the time you’re standing in the kitchen you’ve forgotten why you even left the couch. Psychologists call this the Doorway Effect, and while it can seem…
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Legacy to Leader: How Sales Enablement Transforms Buyer-Seller Relationships in Telecoms
Last month we touched upon some of the current challenges facing sales and marketing teams in the telecom industry, and detailed how some legacy providers have begun to shift their focus from consumer to B2B markets, developing their revenue streams to retain a foothold in the market. To recap, perhaps the most compelling argument for…
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Seismic is honored to be named a Microsoft US Partner of the Year, for the second year in a row. In 2018, Microsoft recognized LiveInsights, our analytics capabilities. And this year, Seismic was named Microsoft’s US Partner of the Year in Financial Services. Seismic has been in lockstep with Microsoft to bring increased value to…
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The Future of Sales Enablement is Personalization: An Exclusive Preview of New Forrester Study
Sales enablement is having a moment. LinkedIn has almost 9000 open sales enablement positions across the United States alone. So, it is high time to delve into what sales enablement really looks like in 2019. Seismic commissioned Forrester Consulting on a July 2019 study[1] reporting on the present and future of enablement, surveying nearly 400…
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8 Reasons Your Sales Reps are Losing Deals
Buyers have taken control of the modern sales cycle, and successful salespeople today know they need to act like trusted advisors with prospects to simplify their decision-making process, understand their needs and behavior, and deliver immediate value, otherwise they will lose the deal. Great sales managers and sales reps won’t just accept that a deal…
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For banks, lending is getting less profitable and funding has gotten more costly. According to David O’Connell of the AITE Group, this means banks need to embrace lending as the “tip of the spear” and field new opportunities to acquire deposits. Maximizing collaboration between lenders and treasury management and “treating all products and services as…
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10 Tips to Drive World-Class Sales Enablement
If there was ever a time when selling was easy, now is not it. Selling into the b-to-b marketplace is becoming increasingly difficult because today’s buyers are digitally educated and socially connected. Instead of relying on sellers for information on products and services, buyers turn to the Internet and their professional networks to educate themselves…
Read MoreHow Investment Managers Can Use Technology to Enable a Client-First Approach to Sales
The investment management industry faces no shortage of challenges. Client expectations are on the rise as they seek the same kinds of highly customized, consultative, and engaging experiences they’re accustomed to in virtually every other aspect of their lives. At the same time, clients are becoming increasingly more sensitive to fees. That sensitivity is putting…
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The Shift From Sales Reps to Trusted Advisors
State of buyer engagement in 2019 Buyers today can obtain product information and read reviews without ever talking to a salesperson, embarking on as much as 57% of the buyer’s journey alone. Because prospects and buyers are more educated their expectations have also increased. Customers today expect salespeople to act as trusted advisors. When buyers…
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