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    The key to great B2B sales questions - get your prospects to choose

    You’re probably very familiar with the difference between open and closed questions, and how and where they can be most ...

    Why are so many B2B software demos so bad?

    Why do so many B2B software demonstrations fail to move the customer to do anything beyond hoping that it might end soon? ...

    The essential keys to proactive sales pipeline management

    Talk to almost any CEO of a technology-based, B2B-focused business and you’re likely to hear concerns about the size of ...

    What are you reading for?

    There’s a very funny Bill Hicks sketch set in an American diner in which the gum-chewing waitress approaches him, leans over ...

    What have you done to identify your ideal customers?

    Why is it that so many B2B organisations are so unhappy with the returns on their marketing investments, with the accuracy ...

    Lessons from JFK’s inaugural about sales and marketing messaging

    On a bitterly cold winter’s day 53 years ago in January 1961, the newly elected President John F Kennedy set out his agenda ...

    Are your sales people merely communicating value - or creating it?

    One of the problems with creating generic “unique value propositions” is that they are just that - generic. They might be a ...

    How to make the second half of your sales year better than the first

    We've reached the halfway point in the sales year, and this is a particularly good time to take stock. Early indications are ...

    The science of sales forecasting: combining fact and judgement

    The failure to accurately forecast sales revenues has critically compromised the careers of many promising CEOs, Sales VPs ...

    Forget sales methodology wars - just pick the bits that work for you

    The authors of sales methodologies have a vested interest in positioning their approach as being distinctively different ...