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Blog Category // Complex Sales (13)
In complex sales, your fiercest competitor is often “do nothing”
Posted by
Bob Apollo
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Sep 17, 2013
It’s bad enough when, after a long, complex and resource-intensive sales campaign, you end up losing to the competition. But ...
Selling Stupidity: the story continues...
Posted by
Bob Apollo
,
Sep 11, 2013
Home improvement sales people are not known for their intelligence, but the Anglian Windows sales person who just knocked on ...
B2B Sales: is your Champion Capable of Making the Case for Change?
Posted by
Bob Apollo
,
Sep 11, 2013
Every salesperson longs to find a champion within their prospect who is prepared to recommend the vendor’s solution to their ...
B2B Sales: Focusing on your Prospect’s Needs is a Misguided Strategy
Posted by
Bob Apollo
,
Aug 27, 2013
I recently suggested that seeking to achieve “customer delight” may be a misguided and ultimately unprofitable strategy for ...
Sales leadership, sales management and sales coaching
Posted by
Bob Apollo
,
Aug 10, 2013
I was delighted to be asked by the folks at InsightSquared to contribute to their series of "expert interviews" on key ...
B2B Sales: Forecasting must be a blend of fact and judgement
Posted by
Bob Apollo
,
Aug 08, 2013
Virtually every company I speak to wishes they could do a more accurate job of forecasting sales revenues. The issue is ...
B2B sales: “how are you?” and other cringe-worthy opening questions
Posted by
Bob Apollo
,
Jul 24, 2013
Call me old fashioned if you will, but when someone I have never met phones me out of the blue and can’t think of anything ...
B2B Sales: how to stop your pipeline becoming a sewer
Posted by
Bob Apollo
,
Jul 18, 2013
There’s a huge difference between a healthy sales pipeline and a rotten one. It’s long been a hobby horse of mine, and ...
A new definition for SaaS: “Sellotape assisted asset Sale” ;-)
Posted by
Bob Apollo
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Jun 20, 2013
I attended the always-excellent Megabuyte Forum event in London today (if you’re a C-level executive in a UK-based ...
CSO Insights prove that lead scoring improves revenue performance
Posted by
Bob Apollo
,
Jun 19, 2013
One of the most common sources of friction between poorly aligned sales and marketing organisations is sales’ perception ...
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