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 ... »
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
In the world I was born into, people went to school in the traditional way. During that time, you were asked what you wanted to be one day. You went to elementary, middle school, high school and university. You learned a profession, and you worked in that profession most of your life. In those days ... Read Post
Much has been written about “how to sell”—the rules, the methods, ways to vastly increase your sales. Nikolaus Kimla has written a number of books himself on the successful methods he´d seen and personally used. But little is said about the things you can do wrong, and for that reason he decided to write about ... Read Post
Network Selling is a sales model we created several years ago, that expresses the ideal needed in today’s interconnected digital sales landscape. It is expressed in this graphic: In this ebook, Nikolaus Kimla goes through each of the factors in Network Selling, fully explaining each. Respect We start with the very first element required in ... Read Post
This is a book about freedom—the freedom that once existed, the little freedom we have left that we can still take advantage of, and a strong hope for a greater freedom in the future. Within these pages I am opening some old yet crucially relevant arguments and placing them squarely on the table for discussion, ... Read Post
Sales Ethics: More Than Just a Moral Compass In today’s fast-paced world, where “instant gratification” often trumps long-term success, the concept of sales ethics has been relegated to the sidelines. But what if ethical conduct wasn’t just a moral obligation but the real key to sustainable success? Nikolaus Kimla’s ebook, “Sales Ethics: The Real Boost ... Read Post
The sales pipeline is a visual representation of your sales process, in which all of your opportunities are displayed and neatly arranged according to their stage in your sales process. It’s crucial to ensure that your pipeline is organized and utilized to its maximum potential in order to get the most out of this tool. ... Read Post
It is always better to have less but more highly qualified opportunities in your pipeline than it is to have a lot of poorly qualified ones. Resources and focus are better served where you have a realistic chance of success. This tool will help you evaluate opportunities and see if they are worth pursuing. 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.
Nir Zavaro, the Business Storyteller and Amazon #1 bestselling author of F*ck the Slides, explains how to align brand, marketing, and sales by defining one consistent brand character, reviewing it every two months, and using a brand guardian to keep teams aligned. He also shows why a sales pitch should run about three minutes and lead with emotion before data. Learn more at https://nirzavaro.com/
