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    The most important thing a proposal needs to sell

    The most important thing a proposal needs to sell

    When your salespeople submit a proposal, it should always represent the natural culmination of a series of value creating conversations with their potential customer. The contents should not come as a surprise. The recommendations should reflect an already established set ...

    Selling against the status quo

    You’re probably all too well aware of the statistic that the majority of apparently well-qualified complex B2B buying ...

    RFPs: how to avoid being column fodder

    The term “cannon fodder” is used as a somewhat dismissive description for soldiers who were regarded by their generals as ...

    Spotlight on Strategic Selling

    In this, the second of my series of articles for the International Journal of Sales Transformation on today’s leading sales ...

    Helping your customer make sense of complexity

    Making a buying decision has never been more complicated. Your customers have access to an overwhelming amount of ...

    A fresh perspective on the Challenger Sale research

    First published in 2011, “The Challenger Sale” must be one of the most widely-read sales books of the past decade, and with ...

    Who are your ideal customers?

    Most sales organisations - and most of the sales people who work for them - are capable of describing their target market in ...

    Why are so many CRM implementations still failing?

    According to many market analysts, the market for CRM solutions shows no signs of slowing down. It’s increasingly rare to ...

    How likely is your customer to take action?

    One of the most significant mistakes any sales person can make is to assume that their prospective customer is inevitably ...

    Spotlight on Sandler

    I’ve been commissioned by the International Journal of Sales Transformation to write a series of articles comparing and ...