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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

    The problem with assigning fixed percentages to pipeline stages

    On average, fewer than 50% of forecasted opportunities close at the predicted value and time - and the figure is usually far ...

    Forrester: 4 types of B2B buyer = 4 types of B2B seller

    There’s a lot of attention been paid to Forrester’s recent projection that 1 million B2B sales people are going to lose ...

    Why you don’t need any sales stages in your sales pipeline

    The above assertion might appear counter-intuitive, but please bear with me. I’m going to try and make the case that you ...

    It’s time to kick the Shih Tzu out of buyer personas

    B2B marketers are directing an increasing percentage of their energy and budget towards content creation. But the consequent ...

    The second most important moment in any B2B sales campaign

    There’s a reasonable case to be made that the most important moment in the management of any successful sales opportunity is ...

    Why B2B Sales has to confront the Value Gap

    In survey after survey, the average sales person’s inability to effectively communicate the value of their offering has been ...

    B2B Sales: Have you worked out what the real problem is?

    At face value, having a prospect approach you with a clearly defined problem can seem to be very good news - even better if ...

    Can you buy in to these 5 Contrarian Concepts?

    The problem with slavishly following “best practice” is that it’s almost always what the really smart people (and ...

    Acronyms Away! Why COI trumps ROI

    I’ve just been reading an article that suggests that ROI (Return on Investment) is some sort of magic bullet that can ...

    Organisations have personas too!

    The idea of buyer personas seems to be sweeping the world of B2B marketing - another example of a business-to-consumer ...