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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

    McKinsey on applying analytics to make the most of your sales resources

    I recently had the privilege of interviewing Homayoun Hatami and Holger Hürtgen of McKinsey about the ground-breaking ...

    Why sales leaders need to focus on outcomes, not activities

    I’ve been seeing a lot of attention paid recently to activity-based sales management. Put simply, it’s the principle that ...

    Neil Rackham reveals the changing face of selling (and updates "SPIN")

    The recent Association of Professional Sales conference in London brought together over 500 delegates with a single shared ...

    The dumbest opening question a salesperson can ask

    No doubt we’ve all been the recipients of bad advice, and occasionally and unwittingly may have offered bad advice to ...

    Is this project possible, probable or inevitable?

    We all know how hard it is to accurately qualify sales opportunities. We all know how often even apparently well-qualified ...

    McKinsey, HBR: How much support do your sales people need?

    There is some fascinating research just published in the Harvard Business Review by a group of McKinsey consultants. They ...

    The keys to Improving Sales Forecast Accuracy

    As we're all very well aware, complex sales are complicated. There are subject to a wide range of factors that are outside ...

    Modern Selling - Art, Science AND Engineering

    B2B selling has become increasingly complex. Every sales leader today understands this, and it’s obvious we need to take ...

    Identifying Your Ideal Customers

    Market segmentation has traditionally been based on demographic factors such as company size, sector and location. But these ...

    The 5 characteristics of an effective sales process

    There is abundant evidence to prove that companies with an effective sales process outperform their less disciplined ...