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    Why Great Companies Get Started in the Downturns

    Matt McCall is a co-founder and Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Portage Venture Partners. He writes with great insight in his VC Confidential blog - I strongly recommend that you suscribe.

    What are 2009's Sales Best Practices?

    McKinsey on Surviving the Downturn

    One of my little luxuries is a McKinsey Quarterly subscription. I keep it up even during challenging times because it forces ...

    Collective Wisdom: How to Sell More by Reducing Risk

    Current economic pressures mean that we're all facing an incredibly risk-averse buying community. It's expressed in terms of ...

    The Company Pitch - No Time to Show Up and Throw Up

    John Holland, co-founder and co-author of CustomerCentric Selling(r) has just reminded me how painful company presentations ...

    Four Disruptors that are Changing the Software Business

    For any of you who are not yet familiar with it, Selling Power is an outstanding online resource for B2B sales and marketing ...

    Time to Unclog the Pipeline!

    Deals seem to be taking longer, more decision-makers are getting involved, and more deals just keep slipping from quarter to ...

    New Year Forecasting Resolutions

    The dust has started to settle on 2008, and from what we hear, a number of organisations ended up below their initial Q4 ...

    Influencing the Influencers

    There's no doubt that trusted advisers and influencers have a vital role to play throughout the B2B buying process, but they ...

    The Cost of Inaction

    It's clear that the current economic climate is causing a great of risk-averse behaviour on the part of B2B prospects. More ...