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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: Avoiding Finishing Second

    If your organisation is involved in long, complex and resource-intensive sales cycles, there are few things more frustrating ...

    Salesforce.com’s Chatter mobilises McKinsey’s strategies...

    Today during his keynote at Cloudforce 2010 in London’s Royal Festival Hall, Marc Benioff, Chairman and Chief Executive of ...

    B2B sales people: You get delegated to the person you sound like

    The quality of any conversation, whether business or social, is largely determined by who we choose to talk to, what we ...

    Starbucks manage to screw up offline and online

    If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Starbucks might have done well to embrace this principle in their relationship with me.

    There is no Viva in Aviva online

    Online shopping should be a painless experience, right? Aviva, the UK insurance company are certainly trying to convey that ...

    The Buyer's Journey Revisited ... Part Two

    In my previous article on the Buyer's Journey, I set out our latest thinking on the nature of the B2B Buying Process. In ...

    The Buyer's Journey Revisited ... Part One

    The concept of the buyer's journey has been around for a number of years. Hugh Macfarlane's "The Leaky Funnel" inspired a ...

    B2B Sales: could it be time to ban BANT?

    BANT, in case anyone is unfamiliar with the acronym, stands for Budget, Authority, Need and Timeline. It’s commonly used in ...

    Can sales + marketing agree on what an ideal prospect looks like?

    It’s an old story, but one that I still hear far too often. Salespeople complaining that marketing never generates any ...

    Are you really adding value?

    I’ve lost track of the number of companies who proclaim that they are embracing a “value-added” strategy in order to ...