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    It’s Best Not to Confuse Activity with Progress

    Over the past few weeks, I’ve been exposed to a number of situations where companies - or the managers that represent them - ...

    Why Bigger Pipelines Aren’t Always Better

    In a recent webcast, Sirius Decisions shared some preliminary results from their 2010 Sales Pipeline and Forecast Survey - a ...

    McKinsey Survey Shows Web 2.0 Related to Market Share Gains

    Is Web 2.0 simply a passing fad or an enduring trend? We no longer have to rely on the evangelists’ opinion. A recent ...

    B2B Collaboration: Salesforce’s Chatter rises to a Crescendo...

    I’ve written before about the potential of Salesforce.com’s recently-launched Chatter application to drive intracompany ...

    7 reasons why most B2B CRM systems get forecasting badly wrong...

    How accurate are your sales forecasts? According to the latest research from CSO Insights, less than 50% of deals close as ...

    Sales and Marketing 2.0: it’s all about Collaboration...

    Almost all of my recent assignments have revolved around helping B2B clients realise the power and potential of Sales and ...

    Chance Favours the Connected Mind...

    Take a few minutes out to review this video by Steven Johnson, author of "Where Good Ideas Come From". He debunks the ...

    Please join me at "Are You Engaging Customer 2.0?"

    Are you keen to learn from industry experts about the latest trends affecting B2B Sales and Marketing? Then I’d like to ...

    B2B Sales: Avoiding Finishing Second

    If your organisation is involved in long, complex and resource-intensive sales cycles, there are few things more frustrating ...

    Salesforce.com’s Chatter mobilises McKinsey’s strategies...

    Today during his keynote at Cloudforce 2010 in London’s Royal Festival Hall, Marc Benioff, Chairman and Chief Executive of ...