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    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 - recently found his organisation acquired by one of the world’s leading IT players. I asked him how it was going. Now, we all know that there’s often a ...

    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 ...

    Why Reducing the Value of Your Pipeline Will Enable You to Sell More

    Most sales people, and most sales managers, have been conditioned to believe that bigger pipelines are better, but there are ...

    The 5 Top Reasons Why B2B Partnerships Fail

    A recent study involving more than 200 organisations by Channel Dynamics has highlighted some of the key reasons why so many ...