In most complex B2B sales environments, a proposal plays a significant part in the decision making process. But it’s not your proposal that really matters - it’s the internal proposal that the project’s sponsor submits for the approval of their colleagues. That’s the really ...
It often feels nowadays that you can’t turn anywhere without tripping over a Big Data message. Everybody seems to be jumping ...
The conventional view of a successful “solution sales” person is as a problem solver. But that traditional perspective is ...
At an intellectual level, it’s easy to accept that our prospects are far more interested in addressing their issues than ...
That’s the question implied by one of IDC’s recently published “Top 10 predictions for 2013”. Driven by a number of profound ...
Many sales pipelines include a stage labelled “qualified”. But if - like most of the companies I work with - you’re selling ...
When I started my sales career, I was taught that I should focus on identifying my prospect’s needs. Later, when I started ...
In a recent article (“Competing in a digital world”) on the McKinsey website, authors Sarrazin and Sikes identify 4 lessons ...
I’ve been involved in some way or another in helping companies to mobilise their workforces for the past 15 years, and ...
It’s a common cliché in the sales process that you need to sell to the decision maker, and you would be foolish to ignore ...
