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    How can sales people prevent premature elaboration?

    It’s not a very edifying sight, but it happens way, way too often. A prospect gives the faintest acknowledgement of a potential issue, and the impatient (not to say desperate) sales person simply can’t wait to respond by presenting the features, advantages and benefits of ...

    3 critical questions for B2B sales: Why Change? Why Now? Why You?

    Your company is facing an increasingly strong competitor - yet you won’t find them listed in any Google search of the key ...

    How to use sales rep scorecards to drive sales performance

    I'm very pleased to be able to share another must-read guest article from the ever-insightful Swayne Hill of Data-Driven ...

    Exclusive McKinsey Interview: Finding the Mountaintops in Your Markets

    Homayoun Hatami of McKinsey is one of the co-authors of the widely acclaimed “Sales Growth - Five Proven Strategies from the ...

    B2B Sales + Marketing: how much demand do you really need to generate?

    How much demand do you really generate each month to hit your revenue targets? It’s a question that vexes many B2B sales and ...

    Why you have to become a marketing-driven sales organisation

    Is your organisation sales-driven or marketing-driven? That's the question posed in our latest guest contribution from ...

    4 distinctively different states of the B2B buying decision process

    I’ve written before about the Buyer’s Journey, and about the stages that your b2b prospects go through in their buying ...

    The Harvard Business Review explores what makes a great tweet

    Twitter is a runaway success, with more than half-a-billion registered users, and a community that spans both business and ...

    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 ...

    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 ...