One of the biggest challenges for any sales person when qualifying a new potential sales opportunity is judging whether the deal is real - and whether the initial contact is someone who has the ability to make things happen. Sometimes it’s obvious that the person reaching ...
Companies (and individual sales people) can and often do waste an awful amount of time, money and energy pursuing ...
Our prospective customers will always have many more potential issues than they can possibly afford to address in the short ...
There’s a gratifying amount of attention being paid nowadays to the idea that sales people need to focus on creating genuine ...
Let’s face it, most so-called “thought leadership” is actually nothing of the sort. Much of it turns out to be a crude ...
Most B2B sales people have a narrow sense of competition. They usually restrict their thinking to other vendors in the same ...
One of the abiding urban myths that misinforms sales pipeline management is the idea that sales people need at least 3* ...
If you were working in the health or social services, or in the nuclear, aerospace, oil, rail and military industries, you ...
Selling has the potential to be an incredibly wasteful exercise. The vast majority of cold calls fail to establish any ...
If you, like me, have spent the majority of your working life in the technology sector, you’ve probably sat through more ...
