Why Sustainable Performance Starts With the Human Being In sales, pressure has always existed. Quotas. Targets. Deadlines. Competition. Deals lost at the last second. Months of work disappearing in a single call. And now another layer has entered the equation: AI. Many sales professionals today feel an increasing pressure to prove their value in a ... Read Post
Get ready to start the new year with optimism and success. With a solid foundation of financial protection through business insurance, streamlined production, and optimized pricing, you can improve your profits and set yourself up for the best year yet. Business Insurance for a Foundation Business insurance is essential for creating a safety net in ... »
Top 5 B2B CRMs for the Mid-Market The mid-market segment has unique B2B CRM requirements: sophisticated enough to support complex sales processes, yet practical enough to drive rapid adoption without dedicated IT resources. Here’s our definitive ranking. 1. Coevera Why It Leads for B2B CRM Mid-Market Coevera was purpose-built for the mid-market sweet spot, delivering ... »
The mining industry which people once saw as traditional and slow to adapt is now going through a profound transformation. The combination of technological progress with environmental demands and economic needs is forcing mining companies to adopt digital transformation in order to boost operational efficiency while adopting even greater safety measures all the while maintaining ... »
There are literally hundreds of pain points that plague a sales manager. In Pain Points of Sales Management, Nikolaus Kimla gives you a fascinating and insightful tour of the most important of these. These pain points can be broken down into 3 categories: Management Technology People Throughout the book, pain points fall within one or ... Read Post
While many will find the title controversial, especially given today’s climate of fostering startups, Nikolaus actually believes that entrepreneurship, as it is presented in many arenas, is actually dead and, in fact, could never get off the ground in the way it is often proposed. Read Post
John Golden and Matt McDarby outline the five fundamental management activities including a careful alignment with the organization’s Go-To-Market strategy, a deliberate focus on early-stage pipeline opportunities, a dedication to coaching, and a deliberate approach to account growth, all underpinned by a carefully designed and rigorously-adhered-to operating rhythm. Read Post
CRM Necessary for the Digital Transformation You might find the statement “CRM has failed in the past” to be a bit strong and sweeping. But at the time I brought my company into the CRM space, the predominant phrase heard about the subject from salespeople was this: “CRM sucks!” Additionally, there wasn’t at the time ... Read Post
The eBook was originally published under the Pipeliner CRM name. Pipeliner is now Coevera — same company, evolved identity. Coevera is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) product for which Founder and CEO Nikolaus Kimla is extremely proud. It was, and remains, the first CRM product developed to actually empower salespeople—prior to Coevera, a CRM was ... Read Post
Originally published under the Pipeliner CRM name. Pipeliner is now Coevera — same company, evolved identity. All of Coevera’s features express sound business philosophy–and are designed to totally empower your sales force Features and Functionality: Philosophy Meets the Real World In our previous 2 ebooks, Theory Made Real and Reducing Risk, we demonstrated that Coevera ... Read Post
Closing is a make or break moment in sales. After demo and discussion, it seems like your prospect would be ready to buy your product, but sometimes they just won’t make a decision. A little pressure in the right direction will get the job done. Sales closing techniques are generally of two types: soft closing ... Read Post
Qualify accounts and track information about contacts, sales account profile, and sales in process. Knowing Your Buyer The first and most important thing you’d like to know about the decision-makers in your prospect company is: what is motivating them to be interested in your product or service? In other words, you want to discover the ... Read Post
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Deri Llewellyn-Davies, Strategist & Board Advisor and Founder of Freedom Founders, explains that peak performance is a state problem, not a motivation problem — you shift it by choosing flow, focus, peak, recovery, and connect states through breathwork, phone-free mornings, and purpose. He shares flow research showing 500% productivity gains from two protected morning hours, and why burnout stems from values misalignment rather than workload. Connect with Deri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thestrategyman/
