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    The Information Arms Race Between B2B Buyers and Sellers

    The term "arms race" was initially used to describe the competition between two or more nations to establish the most powerful armed forces. Nowadays, the term is used to describe any situation where the goal is simply to stay ahead of the other party - and, as Joel York ...

    McKinsey: We Are All Marketers Now

    A recent McKinsey Quarterly article claims that “we’re all marketers now” - and with good reason. Customer preferences are ...

    B2B Sales Pipelines: When Do You Want to be Told the Truth?

    An old colleague of mine - a highly experienced sales leader with many years of sustained quota achievement to his credit - ...

    Software CEOs Talk About Adopting SaaS

    Earlier this week a group of UK-based software CEOs talked about their experiences of adopting a Software as a Service ...

    5 Questions You Ought to be Asking as the Half-Year Approaches

    We’re coming up to the end of June - the half-way point for many annual plans and company financial years. You undoubtedly ...

    Is Your Organisation Paying the Penalty for Poor Sales Qualification?

    80% of lost sales opportunities are the result of either poor qualification or the lack of an effective sales process. But ...

    Why Less Than 1 in 5 CRM Systems Actually Increase Revenues

    Why have so many companies invested in CRM systems? According to the latest data from CSO Insights, the overriding goal for ...

    7 Simple Prescriptions for Successful B2B Sales Pipeline Management

    Rick Page - in his book of the same name - reminds us that when it comes to winning Complex Sales, “Hope is Not a Strategy”. ...

    B2B Sales: Top Sellers are Storytellers

    Is your sales process characterised by lengthy buying cycles with the involvement of multiple decision makers? Are buying ...

    B2B Marketing: Forrester on Becoming a Customer Obsessed Company

    Leading research firm Forrester recently published a new report on “Competing in the Age of the Customer”. Although the ...