This is an edited extract from my latest research publication: Thriving in the Whirlwind: Four Insights to Grow Revenue Now Download THRIVING IN THE WHIRLWIND here by participating in the 2018 Business Performance Benchmark Study (takes 5-10 minutes) The first significant point of customer engagement for most sellers is usually a sales meeting – but sadly…
Low Hanging Fruit (4 Sales Insights)
I’m fond of low hanging fruit. If there is a quick win that delivers benefit now, without negatively impacting the longer-term opportunity, then it seems why wait. That’s why, when, as I was doing research for my latest book, I was delighted to find so many data driven insights coming from the correlation and cross…
What’s the impact on the customer?
Thinking about the impact on a customer: If you have read much of what I have written, you will undoubtedly have come across one of my favorite phrases: The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is typically greater than the impact on a salesperson of a lost deal. I believe that to…
Digital Sales Transformation: The Buyer’s Perspective
As Mike Rosenbaum (EVP CRM Apps, Salesforce) said in the Foreword to my recent book, Digital Sales Transformation in a Customer First World, we are living in an era of unprecedented change. Mike also acknowledges that saying this feels tired, worn, and perhaps obvious. We all know we are living in a whirlwind. We are…
The Worst Business Advice
I thought about the worst business advice I ever heard when Matt Heinz asked me to participate in his ‘How I Work’ series. He asks a few questions about your working environment, your favorite life-hack or timesaving tip, and so on. One of the questions on the list was: ‘What is the best piece of…
The Customer First Mandate
[NOTE: This is an extract from my new book Digital Sales Transformation in a Customer First World] The world in which we live is a world dominated by the race for attention. In the last two minutes, the world sent 300 million emails, watched 15 million videos on YouTube, and searched 8 million times on Google.…