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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

    What if all our candidates are imperfect?

    When it comes to political elections, we’re often faced with imperfect choices. But we can’t defer our decision. We have to ...

    Bridging the sales performance gap

    In the majority of sales organisations, a high percentage of sales revenue is generated by the same minority of top sales ...

    When demographics aren’t enough: how to identify your ideal customers

    Traditional market segmentation is usually based around the core demographic attributes of company size, sector and ...

    Lessons from Chess: why sales people need to think ahead

    When we observe a chess grand master in action (or an expert in any other similar strategy-based game), it quickly becomes ...

    What we’ve got here is failure to differentiate…

    Let’s face it, establishing a distinctive, differentiated position for our products and services is hard and getting harder ...

    Aligning our sales process with our prospect’s buying journeys

    In complex sales environments, the role of the successful salesperson isn’t just about prospecting, qualifying and closing. ...

    Are your sales athletes rocks or sponges?

    With the Rio Olympics drawing to a close and with some remarkable individual and team performances still fresh in our ...

    ADOPTED: a far better way to qualify complex sales opportunities

    One of the fundamental capabilities that distinguish top sales people - and top sales organisations - from the rest is their ...

    Weeding out weak opportunities (and improving sales forecast accuracy)

    How can B2B sales people (and the sales organisations they work for) identify and engage the prospects that are most likely ...

    A question of priorities [and opportunity qualification]

    Hank Barnes of Gartner recently published a thoughtful post on the need for sales people to see the “big picture” and make a ...