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Exclusive research and insights for Emblaze community members. This is where breakthrough revenue ideas go from spark to sales‑ready story.
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  • Video: The Next Best Thing to Being There
    Throw it back with us to a 2018 webinar replay for a look at how sales leaders were thinking and talking about virtual sales before virtually everyone was doing it! At the time, there were many opinions, but not much research—until this moment.
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  • Video: Are You Up for the Upsell?
    What’s the most effective message in the upsell situation, when you need to convince existing customers to migrate to higher-value solutions or services? Watch this on-demand webinar to see the research that addresses how to tell a persuasive story when upsell opportunities are on the line.
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  • Report: Determining the Most Effective Upsell Message
    How do you sell more to an existing customer, when you need to convince them to migrate or upgrade to higher-value solutions and services—either in the event of a significant upsell opportunity or due to a material change in a base product?
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  • Brief: Why Evolve? The Best Approach for Upselling Customers to New Solutions
    How do you sell more to an existing customer? What kind of message works best for the traditional upsell or solution upgrade conversation, when you need to convince customers to migrate to higher-value solutions and services? See the optimal message framework for succeeding in this critical conversation.
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  • Video: Decide or Defer? Mastering the Why Now Moment with Executive Buyers
    In this on-demand webinar, Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy Officer at Emblaze and co-author of The Expansion Sale, and Professor Nick Lee of Warwick Business School, explore academic research that reveals a scientificallly-tested messaging framework for telling the most effective Why Now story.
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  • Report: What Message Gets Executive Decision-Makers to Buy Now Instead of Never?
    Stalled proposals and lost deals are a value communication problem, often stemming from an inability to get executive-level buyers to make purchase decisions now. What kind of sales message is most effective when you need to create enough urgency and show enough business impact to justify a decision now?
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  • Brief: What Kinds of Messages Get Executive Buyers to Purchase Now?
    Proposals that stall out or end in no decision are a major threat to your pipeline and ultimately your success. This is a case for the “Why Now” moment—when you need to create enough urgency in your business proposals to get executive buyers to act promptly.
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  • Report: Do Marketing and Sales Have a Blind Spot?
    This research report looks at how marketing and sales emphasize and invest in the various stages of the customer lifecycle, and what those choices mean when it comes to messaging effectively throughout the life of your accounts.
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  • Report: Cracking the Code for Communicating Price Increases
    Challenging the buyer is the right story when you’re trying to acquire new business. But when you’re trying to keep your customers and get them to pay more for your solutions? Not so much. How can you communicate price increases without disrupting customer relationships?
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  • Brief: The Most Effective Messaging Framework for Communicating Price Increases
    Challenging your prospects is a highly effective approach when you’re trying to convince them to do something different than what they’re doing today. But how do you convince your customers to stick with you and pay more without tarnishing the relationship?
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  • Report: Customer Retention and Renewal Messaging
    Does the renewal message get overlooked amid all the hype around net new customer acquisition? What kind of customer retention messaging are B2B companies using to deliver on one of the most important aspects of ABM: winning more renewal business?
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  • Report: The B2B Content Disconnect
    Most companies believe that buyers are more than halfway through the buying journey by the time they engage a seller. But what kind of changes are they making to their demand generation and sales content because of that belief? And is their content on both sides of the lead handoff making the pipeline impact they need?
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