Top B2B books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of B2B

Understanding the concepts of B2B starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

Driving Demand: Transforming B2B Marketing to Meet the Needs of the Modern Buyer

Carlos Hidalgo provides a clear roadmap and framework on how B2B organizations can implement change management and transform their Demand Generation. Case studies and excerpts from B2B marketing practitioners and ANNUITAS clients who have transformed their organizations and how they accomplished this change are incorporated throughout the book.

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The Challenger Sale

Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies, The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach, especially when it comes to selling complex, large-scale business-to-business solutions. The authors' study found that every sales rep in the world falls into one of five distinct profiles, and while all of these…

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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Life is a series of negotiations, and negotiation is at the heart of collaboration—whether you are a business executive, a salesperson, a parent , a community leader, or a spouse. As a former FBI hostage negotiator, Chris Voss gives you the tools to be effective in any situation: negotiating a business deal, buying (or selling) a car, negotiating a salary, acquiring a home, renegotiating rent,…

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Predictable Prospecting: How to Radically Increase Your B2B Sales Pipeline

If your organization’s success is driven by B2B sales, you need to be an expert prospector to successfully target, qualify, and close business opportunities. This game-changing guide provides the immediately implementable strategies you need to build a solid, sustainable pipeline ― whether you’re a sales or marketing executive, team leader, or sales representative.
Based on the acclaimed bu…

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B2B Selling: Business-to-Business Marketplace Insights and Observations

Nearly every month for the past thirty years, Phil Krone and his colleagues at Productive Strategies, Inc. have written a column on business-to-business sales and marketing—providing insights for better understanding the market and increasing the odds of successfully selling into the B2B marketplace.
He continues to publish these columns and send them to thousands of sales and marketing pro…

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Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling

The brutal fact is the number one reason for failure in sales is an empty pipe and the root cause of an empty pipeline is the failure to consistently prospect. By ignoring the muscle of prospecting, many otherwise competent salespeople and sales organizations consistently underperform.

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Additional B2B Reading

These books are not required for you to learn B2B, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.

Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email and Cold Calling

Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting.
Step by step, Jeb Blount outlines his innovative approach to prospecting that works for real people, in the real world, with real prospects.
Learn how to…

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The Pricing Roadmap: How to Design B2B SaaS Pricing Models That Your Customers Will Love

Designed specifically for founders and executives in medium to large B2B tech companies, "The Pricing Roadmap" is your ultimate guide to crafting pricing strategies that drive success in the competitive SaaS market, dropping acquisition costs and exploding growth
Whether you're a startup, pre-revenue venture, or an industry leader, this step-by-step guide will help you will learn how to:

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