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    ReachForce B2B Sales Expert Interview programme

    I was recently interviewed by ReachForce as part of their Expert Interview program. Here are some of the B2B sales related ...

    The fundamental principles of value-based selling

    It’s a sad fact that today’s average B2B sales person is still far more comfortable talking about their products than they ...

    Competing against the status quo

    Note: this article originally appeared in the International Journal of Sales Transformation under the title 'Competing ...

    Forrester: 4 types of B2B buyer = 4 types of B2B seller

    There’s a lot of attention been paid to Forrester’s recent projection that 1 million B2B sales people are going to lose ...

    The second most important moment in any B2B sales campaign

    There’s a reasonable case to be made that the most important moment in the management of any successful sales opportunity is ...

    Why B2B Sales has to confront the Value Gap

    In survey after survey, the average sales person’s inability to effectively communicate the value of their offering has been ...

    B2B Sales: Have you worked out what the real problem is?

    At face value, having a prospect approach you with a clearly defined problem can seem to be very good news - even better if ...

    Can you buy in to these 5 Contrarian Concepts?

    The problem with slavishly following “best practice” is that it’s almost always what the really smart people (and ...

    Acronyms Away! Why COI trumps ROI

    I’ve just been reading an article that suggests that ROI (Return on Investment) is some sort of magic bullet that can ...

    Organisations have personas too!

    The idea of buyer personas seems to be sweeping the world of B2B marketing - another example of a business-to-consumer ...