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    Bob Apollo

    Bob Apollo
    November 19, 2023
    Bob Apollo is a Fellow of the Institute of Sales Professionals, a regular contributor to the International Journal of Sales Transformation and Top Sales World Magazine, and the driving force behind Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, the leading proponents of outcome-centric selling. Following a successful corporate career spanning start-ups, scale-ups and market leaders, Bob now works as a strategic advisor, mentor, trainer and coach to ambitious B2B sales organisations - teaching them how to differentiate themselves through their provably superior approach to achieving their customer's desired outcomes.
    Articles By Bob Apollo

    Assumptions kill opportunities

    I’ve had the opportunity to sit in on a number of QBRs with my clients, and as an outside observer I’m struck by how common ...

    The why, how, what and who of sales checklists

    When Harvard Medical School Professor (and BBC Reith Lecturer) Atul Gawande published his “Checklist Manifesto” nearly 10 ...

    Sales perfection is impossible!

    There are so many potential variables and unknowns in any complex B2B sales environment that the idea of running a ...

    Please tell me something I don’t already know

    Corporate Visions recently hosted a webinar on how to gain access to business executives. Their findings were based on a ...

    The most important thing a proposal needs to sell

    When your salespeople submit a proposal, it should always represent the natural culmination of a series of value creating ...

    Selling against the status quo

    You’re probably all too well aware of the statistic that the majority of apparently well-qualified complex B2B buying ...

    RFPs: how to avoid being column fodder

    The term “cannon fodder” is used as a somewhat dismissive description for soldiers who were regarded by their generals as ...

    Spotlight on Strategic Selling

    In this, the second of my series of articles for the International Journal of Sales Transformation on today’s leading sales ...

    Helping your customer make sense of complexity

    Making a buying decision has never been more complicated. Your customers have access to an overwhelming amount of ...

    A fresh perspective on the Challenger Sale research

    First published in 2011, “The Challenger Sale” must be one of the most widely-read sales books of the past decade, and with ...