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    B2B Complex Sales: the 4 states of the buying decision mindset

    Are your prospects Painting by Numbers, on a Quest for the Grail, Lost in the Fog, or running around like Headless Chickens? There's been a lot written - some of it by me - about the stages B2B prospects tend to go through in their buying decision process, and the need to ...

    Connecting the Buyer's Journey, Your Pipeline and Your Revenue Goals

    The changing shape of the buyer's journey has introduced a raft of new issues for sales leaders who are trying to manage ...

    3 out of 4 companies are taking the wrong approach to sales coaching

    As you can imagine, I get to speak to a fair number of B2B-focused CEOs and sales leaders - and I can’t recall any of them ...

    Connecting the Marketing Message with the Sales Conversation

    I recently recorded an on-demand webinar with BrightTALK on the increasingly important need to connect your marketing ...

    B2B Sales+Marketing: why it’s time to stop generating new leads…

    I hope the headline caught your attention - it was intended to. After all, aren’t fresh leads the lifeblood of any company ...

    Why Marketing needs to FieldSource more ideas from Sales

    For an industry that has embraced so many “lean” and “agile” principles when it comes to software development, it’s always ...

    What have you learned from your top sales performers?

    What is it that your top sales performers do better than anyone else? Part of the explanation may, of course, be simply that ...

    The management skill that’s missing in two-thirds of sales organisations

    Miller Heiman’s always-excellent research programme has thrown up another compelling statistic: only 34% of all the sales ...

    The 3 levels of sales qualification: account, opportunity, sponsor

    It makes for pretty uncomfortable reading: CSO Insights’ latest global study of sales forecast accuracy suggests that - on a ...

    Bridging the gap between marketing messages and sales conversations

    I wrote late last year about the idea that “you can create brilliant content marketing and still miss the point”, and I want ...