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    The fundamental principles of value-based selling

    The fundamental principles of value-based selling

    It’s a sad fact that today’s average B2B sales person is still far more comfortable talking about their products than they are discussing business issues. However the average B2B buyer regards a sales person’s relevant business knowledge as being far more valuable than ...

    Competing against the status quo

    Note: this article originally appeared in the International Journal of Sales Transformation under the title 'Competing ...

    The problem with assigning fixed percentages to pipeline stages

    On average, fewer than 50% of forecasted opportunities close at the predicted value and time - and the figure is usually far ...

    Forrester: 4 types of B2B buyer = 4 types of B2B seller

    There’s a lot of attention been paid to Forrester’s recent projection that 1 million B2B sales people are going to lose ...

    Why you don’t need any sales stages in your sales pipeline

    The above assertion might appear counter-intuitive, but please bear with me. I’m going to try and make the case that you ...

    It’s time to kick the Shih Tzu out of buyer personas

    B2B marketers are directing an increasing percentage of their energy and budget towards content creation. But the consequent ...

    The second most important moment in any B2B sales campaign

    There’s a reasonable case to be made that the most important moment in the management of any successful sales opportunity is ...

    Why B2B Sales has to confront the Value Gap

    In survey after survey, the average sales person’s inability to effectively communicate the value of their offering has been ...

    B2B Sales: Have you worked out what the real problem is?

    At face value, having a prospect approach you with a clearly defined problem can seem to be very good news - even better if ...

    Can you buy in to these 5 Contrarian Concepts?

    The problem with slavishly following “best practice” is that it’s almost always what the really smart people (and ...