Proving Your Value to Frugal Buyers

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Your prospect's are more frugal than ever before, requiring quantifiable proof that you are addressing a significant business issue, and that your proposal will deliver tangible bottom-line benefits. This represents a challenge to your entire sales and marketing process, as a failure to proactively prioritize and justify your solutions can significantly stall or delay purchase decisions. Do you have the value marketing and selling tools needed to deliver the financial justification today's frugal buyer demands? In this webinar you will learn the methods used by world class sales enablement / marketing teams to meet the demands of today's economic-focused buyer. You will learn how to: - Break the status quo and increase the priority of your proposals via quantifying the "cost of doing nothing" - Calculate and communicate the unique benefits or your solutions to various verticals and stakeholders - Quantify your competitive advantage - Reach higher to assure proposal signoff from CFOs and financial gatekeepers

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Proving Your Value to Frugal Buyers

Tom Pisello CEO & FounderThe ROI Guy

@tpisello@AlineanROIhttp://www.alinean.com

90

12

1 Communicating Value Messages

Of Sales Reps are Value-Focused

Of buyers need bottom-line proof prior to purchase

(IDC)

(Forrester)

(Sirius Decisions)

Up to 40%

Discounting

22%

Longer Sales CycleSirius Decisions U of Dayton

Why Change? = Cost of Do Nothing

Costs

Time to Market

TerritoryLimitations

Customer Churn

CompetitiveLosses

InnovationChallenges

Sales CycleDelays

Pricing Challenges& Discounting

AgilityChallenges

ScalabilityChallenges

Downtime

Compliance

BreachData Loss

Fines & Penalties

Legal

Safety

Legacy Solution Costs

ProductivityLosses

Inefficient Processes

SourcingChallenges

Turnover

Cost & Schedule Overruns

QualityIssues

LaborCosts

Errors

Risks

Lost Business Opportunities

Why Now? = Value of Change

Savings

Accelerated Time to Market

New Business Regions

Improved Customer Retention

Reduced CompetitiveLosses

Innovation

Accelerated Sales Cycle

Improved Deal Size

AgilityScalability

Improved Availability

ImprovedCompliance

AvoidedBreach

AvoidedData Loss

Reduced Fines & Penalties

ReducedLegal Risk

ImprovedSafety

Reduced TCO

ProductivityGains

StreamlinedProcesses

ImprovedSourcing

Retention

Managed Costs &Schedule

ImprovedQuality

Reduced LaborCosts

Reduced Errors

RiskAvoidance

IncrementalBusiness

Why You? = TCO & Value Advantage

Planning

Purchase

Customization

Delivery

Admin & Support

Evolution

Retirement /Replacement

Your Solution vs. Competition

Operations

Benefits Estimator Example

Scoring against Capability / Maturity IndexComparison to Peer Averages and Leaders

Real-Time Customer Intelligence Connectors to MAP / CRM

MAP/CRM Connector- Registration Data- Additional Intelligence- Custom Report Link

Connectors for Eloqua, Marketo, Salesforce.com +

Real-time for fast follow-up

ValueStory™ Example

ROI / TCO Analysis Example

Personalize

Challenge

Engage

Industry, Location & SizeBuyer’s Role in Purchase DecisionBusiness Objectives & ChallengesCurrent Practices & Priority Issues

Cost of Doing NothingBenefits and ROI of ChangeQuantify Competitive TCO & Value

More Visuals & Less TextContrast – Before vs. AfterSocial Stories – User Successes

& Social Sharing

Tools that Work!

You Need an Edge …

Suite from “Do Nothing” to Yes

Yes = Rational + Emotional

Not just a tool, an Enterprise Platform

Integrated Customer Intelligence

3rd Party Credibility & Experience

Platform

Mobile Sales & Marketing Enablement

International & Security Certified

Helpful ResourcesProduct, Solution, Value – You Decide!

The Solutions

– Benefit Estimators

– ValueStory

– ROI / TCO Sales Tools

The Proof

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