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    Does your sales pipeline need a massive clean-up operation?

    BP has been getting a great deal of adverse publicity for the recent massive leak in their Gulf of Mexico oil pipeline. It’s taken an age to address the underlying problem. The clean-up operation is clearly going to take ages and cost billions. The fortunes of the Bubba ...

    What really motivates people?

    What really motivates people? Dan Pink is a contrarian thinker who always challenges me to think from a new perspective. I ...

    People don't buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it...

    I came across Simon Sinek's work through a blog post by Augie Ray of Forrester. Sinek is the author of Start With Why. In ...

    Sales people: can you resist the itch to pitch?

    Jill Konrath's "SNAP Selling" identifies the "itch to pitch" as one of the most damaging habits sales people can possibly ...

    Jill Konrath’s SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Today's Frazzled Customers

    Jill Konrath is the acclaimed author of “Selling to Big Companies”, and an acknowledged expert on the new sales strategies ...

    What motivates a salesperson – the results are in!

    Regular readers will recall that I've been pleased to republish a number of guest blogs from Donal Daly of our partner the ...

    B2B Sales: From Always Be Closing to Always Be Qualifying?

    Alec Baldwin’s performance as Blake in the film Glengarry Glen Ross immortalised the “Always Be Closing” attitude that for ...

    There are only 2 reasons why you lose a sale

    I'm happy to share the second in our series of guest blogs from Donal Daly, CEO of the TAS Group. In this article, first ...

    According to McKinsey, too much sales contact can cost you business

    There’s a short article in the latest McKinsey Quarterly on “the basics of business-to-business sales success”. It captures ...

    5 Facts about how b2b sales cycles are changing...

    Inflexion-Point has recently established a partnership with the TAS Group to offer their Dealmaker platform to clients who ...