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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

    B2B Sales: Focusing on your Prospect’s Needs is a Misguided Strategy

    I recently suggested that seeking to achieve “customer delight” may be a misguided and ultimately unprofitable strategy for ...

    Sales leadership, sales management and sales coaching

    I was delighted to be asked by the folks at InsightSquared to contribute to their series of "expert interviews" on key ...

    B2B Sales: Forecasting must be a blend of fact and judgement

    Virtually every company I speak to wishes they could do a more accurate job of forecasting sales revenues. The issue is ...

    B2B sales: “how are you?” and other cringe-worthy opening questions

    Call me old fashioned if you will, but when someone I have never met phones me out of the blue and can’t think of anything ...

    B2B Sales: how to stop your pipeline becoming a sewer

    There’s a huge difference between a healthy sales pipeline and a rotten one. It’s long been a hobby horse of mine, and ...

    A new definition for SaaS: “Sellotape assisted asset Sale” ;-)

    I attended the always-excellent Megabuyte Forum event in London today (if you’re a C-level executive in a UK-based ...

    CSO Insights prove that lead scoring improves revenue performance

    One of the most common sources of friction between poorly aligned sales and marketing organisations is sales’ perception ...

    B2B Complex Sales: why sales people should NEVER demo their product

    Have you ever been on the receiving end of a product demo that seems to go on interminably until you feel that you have lost ...

    How can B2B sales + marketing work more effectively together?

    I recently suggested that marketing needs to "fieldsource" more ideas from sales. The message obviously struck a chord, ...

    Why your salespeople's inability to communicate value is killing sales

    Sirius Decisions are just the latest in a long line of analysts to declare that the #1 factor preventing companies from ...