Don Peppers, the highly successful US advertising executive, is well known for his famous quote about value. According to Don, “Customers will create value for you at the point where they believe you’re creating the most value for them”. Seems intuitive doesn’t it? But at the same time, it seems a bit mysterious. Don had ... Read Post
To improve CRM adoption among sales reps, make the CRM give more than it takes: cut manual data entry to minutes a day, configure the pipeline around how deals actually move, run every forecast and pipeline review from inside the CRM, train reps inside their live deals instead of a sandbox, measure usage weekly for ... »
The difference between AI agents vs assistants comes down to how much they do on their own. An AI assistant helps you do a task faster when you ask, like drafting an email or summarizing a call. An AI agent takes multi-step action toward a goal on its own, like researching an account, preparing a ... »
Sales forecasting comes down to five steps: define your sales process and forecast period, gather your historical deal data, choose a forecasting method that fits your data, build the number, and review it against reality on a fixed cadence. The method you choose matters less than most teams think. The discipline of the five steps ... »
Being connected has always been a goal of humanity. In the beginning it only happened through personal contact, shortly followed by written messages such as letters. Coming into the modern age, we then had the telegraph and then the telephone. The computer age eventually brought about the internet, which meant we were connected like never ... Read Post
We’re well into the 21st century—yet the subject of Sales and Marketing alignment still seems as pertinent today as it has ever been. In many organizations, the frustrations seem to endure with every passing year. The age-old blame games are played out. Sales bemoan the quality of leads that Marketing is sending over, and Marketing ... Read Post
What Might We Learn? There is no doubt that we live in very turbulent times. Fortunately, we have several hundred years of recorded history to look back on and hopefully learn some lessons from. The Threat to the Middle Class Let’s now examine how our future actually depends on the sales profession and its impact ... Read Post
Our self-gradable test will show you where you can improve the management of Leads and Opportunities to Increase Sales Velocity and Close Rates From a Lead to a Closed Sale As a Lead moves along the sales pipeline, at some point it becomes an Opportunity. This means it has the real potential of becoming what ... Read Post
People are smart to question the future of automation, for it has become part of everything we do. With the quantity of applications and technology around us, we yet still crave more. We become convinced of its power when our package is delivered from Amazon Prime, containing the items we were simply browsing for that ... Read Post
Managing your sales force can be a lot like managing a soccer team towards a World Cup victory. Be the Best Team! Germany stunned the world with one of the youngest teams ever to take the field at the World Cup 2014 — and a considerable lack of star players in the traditional sense. It ... Read Post
Today in sales management, lead generation has radically changed, due to the proliferation of the Internet. Because information on your product or service is now so freely available—along with that of your competitors—it is very easy for potential buyers to compare products. 60 to 70 percent of the decision making in B2B sales is made ... Start a slideshow
Sales strategist Robert Beckerman has designed a tool to help you build stronger relationships with prospects and clients. Are Your Sales Methods Effective? Are you ready to ask yourself some really important and possibly difficult questions? The answers to these 10 questions will help sales professionals focus on core issues that may be holding them ... Read Post
Sales POP! – conversations with the people who run sales organizations, hosted by John Golden. Published by Coevera, the CRM built for B2B sales teams that sell consultatively.
Kate Jones, Founder of Neon and author of the forthcoming book Deeply Human, explains how leaders can fix a broken world of work by replacing the hamster-wheel paradigm with five core capabilities: clarity of purpose, connection, consciousness, creativity, and care. She argues that self-care is a prerequisite for leading well and that people who feel well perform well. Learn more at https://www.deeplyneon.com
