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Sales Enablement in Action: DealTrack Sales Team Transformation Achieves 36% Growth Target

Enable was established in 2000 to build custom software to meet specific business needs that off-the-shelf software cannot address.  Their work with companies like Procter & Gamble, Mitsubishi Electric, DHL and the BBC has been varied and largely bespoke in nature.

A couple of years ago, their work with a buying group and a building materials supplier unveiled a gap in the enterprise software market for those companies where rebate claims make up a significant proportion of their revenue.

As a result, the DealTrack Rebate Management System was born.

DealTrack is aimed at companies that have annual rebate claims in excess of £12.5m.  By preventing these companies from missing claims, DealTrack has been proven to add six figure sums to their net profit.

Intellegentia has been heavily involved in both the sales and marketing of DealTrack for over a year.  Here’s what we've done to drive significant revenue for this new software package:

Topics: Sales Enablement Case Studies B2B Lead Generation Industry Focus - Technology

Why Complex B2B Sales and Marketing Never Gets Any Easier

When I was on territory selling big ticket ERP, Retail, and Supply Chain software solutions, I spent the best part of a 9 month sales cycle digging deep into a prospect's organisation, understanding the motivations, politics and pain points of the various buyers, decision makers, recommenders, and evaluation teams.

As a sales team, we worked to tried and tested sales methodologies, trying to find the ‘fox’ and nurturing all the players with different valuable information to meet their specific needs, countering competitive threats and answering objections.

It was a Solution Sale. It required patience, delivery of information at the right time, a game plan that all the sales and marketing team bought into, and a process to move them towards a decision.

Topics: Sales Enablement Inbound Marketing B2B Lead Generation

How improving the relationship between sales and marketing can help close more sales

Times have changed. Today’s buyers are more empowered.  Sales no longer controls the flow of information in the buying process - the buyer does. If buyers have a question about a product or service, they can just search online and receive information instantly, privately, and from a variety of sources. 

Topics: Sales Enablement Inbound Marketing B2B Lead Generation

Why focusing on visitor engagement matters

Sales funnelWhat does the phrase ‘visitor engagement’ mean to you? In the world of inbound marketing, it’s a highly effective tactic that can generate valuable leads for your business.

We all know that the main objective of inbound and using tools like HubSpot is to drive visitors to your website and convert them into loyal customers and brand advocates.

However, what many businesses don’t realise is that visitor engagement is fundamental to converting their website traffic into leads.

Topics: B2B Lead Generation

How to Maximise Lead Conversion with Inbound Marketing

In their book ‘Inbound Marketing’, Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah co-founders of Hubspot, outline that marketers in mid-size and large companies spend 80 percent of their time worrying about conversion rates and 20 percent of their time getting more visitors to their website.

The emphasis on lead conversion vs website visitors varies from industry to industry. In the IT technology sector, particularly in the IT Channel, there is still a dependency on traditional outbound marketing, because quite simply that is the way most channel partners have grown in the past. 

Topics: Sales Enablement Inbound Marketing B2B Lead Generation