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    Why You Need to Sell the Problem Before You Can Sell Your Solution

    Recent research by CSO Insights, SiriusDecisions and others confirms what a growing number of sales managers have observed: for many sales organisations, more sales are lost to “no decision” than to the competition. Here’s why B2B sales people need to focus on selling the ...

    Forrester finds that only 1 in 8 Sales Meetings are Valuable

    What makes a sales meeting valuable to a prospect? It’s when the sales person clearly understands the prospect’s business ...

    After 20 Years: 3 Reasons Why the Chasm is Closer than it used to be

    Like most high-tech marketers, I found Geoffrey Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm” essential reading. His concept of the gap that ...

    If You Haven’t Chosen the Game, You Need to Change the Rules

    Have you ever stumbled over a sales opportunity late in the day, after your prospect had already consulted with one or more ...

    Research Shows That Growing Companies Adopt Cloud Computing Faster

    Recent research by MarketBridge confirms that migration to the “Cloud” is accelerating - and that some fascinating patterns ...

    Vodafone Admits "Network Outrage"

    As one of many thousands affected by Vodafone's recent network outage along the M4 corridor, I approached their customer ...

    Lessons Learned: E-Marketing and the Death of B2B Exhibitions

    If you take all the research you read at face value, you might think that e-Marketing was hastening the death of ...

    5 Reasons Why Sales Process Trumps Sales Heroics

    Most companies, at some stage in their early lives, while they are struggling for validation and desperate for revenue, have ...

    5 Ways You Can Still Lose a Sale After You’ve Been Selected

    As any of you who have ever carried a quota know only too well, getting to the apparent end of a long sales cycle and being ...

    B2B Sales: If You’re Going to Lose, You Had Better Lose Early...

    There are few things more dispiriting than investing months of effort in a long and complex sales campaign and then coming ...