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    Book review: Digital Sales Transformation

    Book review: Digital Sales Transformation

    It’s probably no exaggeration to suggest that B2B selling is facing a crisis of confidence. I hear it all the time from new clients. Sales organisations are finding that it is harder than ever to get that all important first fully engaged customer conversation started – and ...

    The Enduring Relevance of "Crossing the Chasm"

    With over a million copies sold, Geoffrey Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm” guide to marketing and selling disruptive products to ...

    Opportunity qualification is a continuous process

    If you’re involved in complex, lengthy and high-value B2B sales environments, you can’t afford to regard opportunity ...

    Why little commitments can be better than big closes

    Whenever a potential client tells me that they believe their sales people have a “closing” problem, I can be pretty ...

    Revisiting the Buyers Journey

    I can still remember the powerful inspiration I gained from my first reading of Hugh Macfarlane’s “The Leaky Funnel” – the ...

    Sell the Difference!

    Today’s B2B buyers are wrestling with potentially risky decisions and often-confusing options. We shouldn’t be surprised if ...

    Selling in the Age of Analytics

    It would be hard to argue against the idea that we’re living in an age of analytics. For many large organisations selling to ...

    Contrast drives change

    When you crunch the numbers, the most common outcome of even apparently well-qualified complex sales opportunities is a loss ...

    Drilling into the need beyond the need

    Theodore Levitt was the first to introduce us to the idea that “people don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a ...

    Stop confusing “objections” with concerns

    Almost every traditional book on sales methodologies has a section on overcoming objections. The techniques proposed often ...