Skip to main content
    Sales people: can you resist the itch to pitch?

    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 fall into - and my own observations suggest that it's one of the most common and dangerous ways of driving an otherwise promising sale off-track and ...

    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 ...

    McKinsey and the end of the Road Warrior...

    As we emerge from the downturn, it’s clear that we’re going to have to find new and better ways of reaching and satisfying ...

    You can’t offer a complete solution until you understand the whole problem...

    Many B2B-focused organisations to prefer to talk in terms of delivering “solutions” rather than selling products. CEOs speak ...

    McKinsey Measures the Value of Word-of-Mouth Marketing

    Your customers, and your prospects, have opinions - and they are fascinated by the opinions of their peer groups and others ...