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    The key to great B2B sales questions - get your prospects to choose

    The key to great B2B sales questions - get your prospects to choose

    You’re probably very familiar with the difference between open and closed questions, and how and where they can be most effectively used in the sales process. At the most basic level, closed questions allow the person asking the question to retain control of the ...

    Why you need to do more than name + define your sales pipeline stages

    The state of the sales pipeline reflects the health of any sales process - and in anything other than the simplest of sales ...

    Why are so many B2B software demos so bad?

    Why do so many B2B software demonstrations fail to move the customer to do anything beyond hoping that it might end soon? ...

    The essential keys to proactive sales pipeline management

    Talk to almost any CEO of a technology-based, B2B-focused business and you’re likely to hear concerns about the size of ...

    What are you reading for?

    There’s a very funny Bill Hicks sketch set in an American diner in which the gum-chewing waitress approaches him, leans over ...

    What have you done to identify your ideal customers?

    Why is it that so many B2B organisations are so unhappy with the returns on their marketing investments, with the accuracy ...

    Lessons from JFK’s inaugural about sales and marketing messaging

    On a bitterly cold winter’s day 53 years ago in January 1961, the newly elected President John F Kennedy set out his agenda ...

    How to avoid false signals from automated lead scoring

    Two years ago, I chaired a discussion group at a digital marketing conference on the subject of lead scoring and nurturing - ...

    Are your sales people merely communicating value - or creating it?

    One of the problems with creating generic “unique value propositions” is that they are just that - generic. They might be a ...

    How to make the second half of your sales year better than the first

    We've reached the halfway point in the sales year, and this is a particularly good time to take stock. Early indications are ...