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    Lessons from JFK’s inaugural about sales and marketing messaging

    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 for change in an inaugural address that was carried around the world. More than half-a-century on, his address is considered among the finest ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    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 ...