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    The science of sales forecasting: combining fact and judgement

    The science of sales forecasting: combining fact and judgement

    The failure to accurately forecast sales revenues has critically compromised the careers of many promising CEOs, Sales VPs and Sales Managers. Getting it wrong - and particularly getting it wrong consistently - sheds jobs and shreds reputations. Despite all the obvious ...

    Today is D-Day: drawing parallels with Crossing the Chasm

    70 years ago, on the 6th June 1944, the largest seaborne invasion in history assembled off the Normandy coast in the first ...

    Are You Torturing Data to Tell Lies?

    Even if, according to Wikipedia, he did not invent the phrase “lies, damned lies and statistics”, Mark Twain did much to ...

    What's YOUR Unique Value Position?

    What sets your organisation apart from all the other companies that are competing for your prospect's attention and - ...

    Gartner: "Boost your sales win rates by 50% via win-loss analysis"

    Most sales organisations claim to conduct some form of win-loss analysis. But according to a recent Gartner investigation, ...

    Forget sales methodology wars - just pick the bits that work for you

    The authors of sales methodologies have a vested interest in positioning their approach as being distinctively different ...

    What would it take for you to give that sales conversation a “10”?

    In sales situations, it’s not unusual to come across prospects that appear at first to be largely content with the status ...

    3 Critical Sales Pipeline Metrics

    How healthy is your sales pipeline right now? And what steps are you taking to progressively improve its fitness? Just as ...

    Top sales people don’t just solve problems - they anticipate them

    The fans of conventional “solution selling” thinking would have you believe that the most effective sales people are problem ...

    3 critical questions you must ask during sales pipeline reviews

    Whether you’re a sales leader or CEO, holding regular sales pipeline reviews ought to offer an essential way of keeping your ...