Webinar: The Future of Selling in Foodservice Distribution
Join sales and pricing leaders from leading foodservice companies on Wednesday, October 30, at 9:00 a.m. CDT / 4:00 p.m. CET to discover key trends shaping the industry—and how sellers can thrive now and into the future.
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Gartner recently published a short whitepaper in which they ranked 14 separate uses cases for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in B2B sales. As they reviewed each scenario, they built a matrix that included a scoring rubric with the following criter...
B2B business leaders of today are constantly challenged to find the best, most reliable path to profit and revenue growth. For wholesale distributors specifically, margins are the name of the game, as a mere 1% price decrease requires the company to increase its sales by nearly 6% to achieve the sam...
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Looking forward ten years, while tough to predict with absolute accuracy, one thing is true: B2B sales reps want selling to be easier, faster, and less manual. On the flip side, customers want the simplicity, speed, and ease of doing business that they have grown accustomed...
Be honest with yourself. How many accounts have you lost in the last 12 months where you had no indication that things were about to churn? If your business is responsible for many thousands of customers, the answer is quite likely, “I’m just not sure.” It’s fine to say this. Aft...
What happens when “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” runs headlong into “Necessity is the mother of invention?” The manufacturing industry showed us in 2020 that the latter wins out in this battle of aphorisms. Rarely have we seen a time in which the stuck-in-its-ways manufacturing sector trans...
2020 has finally come to a close. An arbitrary turn of the calendar doesn’t automatically wipe away the pains or solve all the problems of the past 12 months – a pandemic still rages, businesses of all types and sizes still scramble to calibrate to a new normal. However...
It was an exciting year for Zilliant’s B2B Reimagined Podcast, which launched in December 2019, and has steadily developed an engaged audience over the subsequent 21 episodes. The show is tailored to B2B leaders who are looking for easily consumable insights into commercial trends and industry-speci...
This month Zilliant released three new infographics focused on reimagined commercial solutions for three distinct B2B vertical industries– food production and manufacturing, electronic components distribution and aftermarket/auto parts manufacturing.Here are previews to each, with links to download...
According to Gartner, personalization is “a process that creates a relevant, individualized interaction between two parties designed to enhance the experience of the recipient.” Simply put, personalization means tailoring an offer, a sales communication, or a buying experience based on information a...
In this two-part blog series, Zilliant General Manager of Commercial Excellence Barrett Thompson examines what a total solution looks like in B2B, how it differs from line-item thinking and how companies can leverage technology to help sales reps shift to a solution selling mindset. Read Part 1...
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In this two-part blog series, Zilliant General Manager of Commercial Excellence Barrett Thompson examines what a total solution looks like in B2B, how it differs from line-item thinking and how companies can leverage technology to help sales reps shift to a solution selling mindset. R...
In this two-part blog series, Zilliant Regional Sales Director Mick Naughton is back to share the pros and cons behind the timing of pricing and sales software investment decisions, based on his experience from both sides of B2B. Read Part 2 here.Confession time: I tend to suffer from...
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SAP's Jonathan Burdette joins the B2B Reimagined podcast to dissect the monumental shift to digital commerce for both manufacturers and their customers.B2B Reimagined Episode #19: From "Why?" to "How?" in B2B ManufacturingSAP’s Jonathan Burdette joins host Barrett Thompson to dissect the momentous s...
You may know Zilliant as the leading pricing and sales software vendor. While accurate, this impression is incomplete, especially since the early November release of Campaign Manager. While the new application works seamlessly with our suite of existing solutions t...
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