Challenges in B2B Sales

Sales teams strive to close deals quickly, increase revenue, and ensure smooth cooperation between the back office and sales team in the field. Markets, products, and customer purchasing habits are becoming increasingly complex and posing new challenges.

1. Innovative new business models: improved technologies present B2B Sales with the prospect of disruptive changes. New, digital providers, in part from B2C Sales, operate with innovative business models, such as digital trading platforms, which make offers more transparent and comparable, increasing the demands on market participants.
2. Changing customer characteristics: B2B customers are as diverse as their respective industries and products. Increasingly, customers are informing themselves using online searches and discussions within communities and networks with peers and industry insiders. In some cases, customers are then becoming experts themselves and posing new challenges for B2B companies by requesting detailed product specifications.
3. Products are becoming more complex and varied: in addition to customer markets, products are also evolving into more complex, integrated solutions, which also increases the demands on sales. Variety on the market coupled with a growing product portfolio likewise increase complexity and present sales staff with new challenges.
4. A more complex customer journey: today's B2B Sales increasing follows a pull strategy. Initial contact and impetus are increasingly coming from the customer, shifting the decision on how, when, and where the interaction takes place to the customer side. Examining and correctly interpreting the customer journey across numerous touch points and multi-channels places considerable demand on Sales teams.

Advantages of our Sales Excellence BDF

What our BDF can offer you:

• Expertise and insights: meet with industry peers to learn about proven methods and successful strategies for overcoming specific challenges.
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• Expanded network: use our BDF network to benefit from diverse perspectives and support one another.