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    B2B Marketing: The Trouble with Thought Leadership

    B2B Marketing: The Trouble with Thought Leadership

    Joel Kurtzman, editor-in-chief of the Booz Allen Hamilton magazine Strategy & Business first coined the term “thought leadership” in 1994. I wonder if he knew what he was starting? It’s nearly impossible to find a B2B focused marketing plan that doesn’t include it as an ...

    In complex sales, your fiercest competitor is often “do nothing”

    It’s bad enough when, after a long, complex and resource-intensive sales campaign, you end up losing to the competition. But ...

    Selling Stupidity: the story continues...

    Home improvement sales people are not known for their intelligence, but the Anglian Windows sales person who just knocked on ...

    B2B Sales: is your Champion Capable of Making the Case for Change?

    Every salesperson longs to find a champion within their prospect who is prepared to recommend the vendor’s solution to their ...

    B2B Sales: Focusing on your Prospect’s Needs is a Misguided Strategy

    I recently suggested that seeking to achieve “customer delight” may be a misguided and ultimately unprofitable strategy for ...

    Sales leadership, sales management and sales coaching

    I was delighted to be asked by the folks at InsightSquared to contribute to their series of "expert interviews" on key ...

    B2B Sales: Forecasting must be a blend of fact and judgement

    Virtually every company I speak to wishes they could do a more accurate job of forecasting sales revenues. The issue is ...

    B2B sales: “how are you?” and other cringe-worthy opening questions

    Call me old fashioned if you will, but when someone I have never met phones me out of the blue and can’t think of anything ...

    B2B Sales: how to stop your pipeline becoming a sewer

    There’s a huge difference between a healthy sales pipeline and a rotten one. It’s long been a hobby horse of mine, and ...

    A new definition for SaaS: “Sellotape assisted asset Sale” ;-)

    I attended the always-excellent Megabuyte Forum event in London today (if you’re a C-level executive in a UK-based ...