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    McKinsey: 5 winning strategies of the world’s top sales organisations

    Pär Edin and his colleagues at McKinsey believe they have identified the five winning strategies that distinguish the world’s leading sales organisations from their also-ran competitors. Pär presented their findings at the excellent recent Sales and Marketing 2.0 conference ...

    Are you trying to address too big a market - or solve too many problems?

    I don’t know about you, but I’m always uneasy when a CEO describes his or her strategy and somewhere along the way you hear ...

    B2B Funnel Metrics Webinar now available on-demand

    I recently suggested how B2B companies could apply smarter metrics to their sales and marketing funnel. I’m delighted to let ...

    SaaS means you can never afford to stop selling

    Like mobile operators, the economics of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors are profoundly affected by churn - the rate at ...

    What Matters Now? - and why organisations must be built on values

    I wonder if I’m alone when I look around at the circumstances that have led to the continuing crisis in our economy (is ...

    What’s holding your business back? Try this 12-point action framework

    What would happen if you were able to double your sales and marketing resources overnight? Assuming that you haven’t already ...

    Applying Smarter Metrics to your Sales and Marketing Funnel

    According to some of the latest reports from Sirius Decisions, CSO Insights and other leading B2B research organisations, ...

    Perhaps there’s no such thing as solution selling - only solution buying

    There’s a multi-million $ industry built up around solution selling. Training companies deliver courses promising to help ...

    6 Critical Foundations of the new “Solution Selling”

    Faced with increasing competition, commoditisation and margin erosion most B2B vendors have chosen to embrace “solution ...

    B2B Marketing’s Revenue Transition Requires Outcome-Based Lead Metrics

    I recently wrote about the need for B2B organisations to transform their marketing from a cost centre to a revenue centre. ...