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    Why B2B Sales has to confront the Value Gap

    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 rated as the most frustrating challenge facing today’s CEOs and Heads of Sales. They are right to be concerned. The statistics are truly horrible. ...

    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 ...

    Acronyms Away! Why COI trumps ROI

    I’ve just been reading an article that suggests that ROI (Return on Investment) is some sort of magic bullet that can ...

    Organisations have personas too!

    The idea of buyer personas seems to be sweeping the world of B2B marketing - another example of a business-to-consumer ...

    Why it's critical that you "nail your niche"

    How hard can it be for a new entrant to carve out a 1% share of a very large market? The answer, of course, is that it is ...

    B2B Sales: Why you must systematically target these 3 avoidable errors

    Sales people and sales leaders have been regularly urged over the years to adopt “best practices” as a way of improving ...

    Why sales processes need to support artisans - not create automatons

    The evidence that formalised sales processes improve sales performance is absolutely overwhelming - a raft of studies have ...

    McKinsey help to illuminate changes in b2b buying behaviour

    A recent article in the McKinsey quarterly has highlighted a phenomenon that many of us have observed: B2B purchasing ...

    Your customer’s buying process doesn’t have to be a mystery

    It seems like a self-evident truth, doesn’t it? One of the consistently effective b2b sales strategies is to sell the way ...

    Think your salespeople have a closing problem? Think again…

    I’ve lost count of the number of clients who call me in because they think their sales people have a problem closing new ...