Sales Consequences of a No-Decision?

I’ve been there when it’s been ‘no decision’ and I’ve been on both sides. I think we all have. When I first look back, if I’m the sales guy, my first inclination is did  I really do something wrong, or I didn’t really sell the product that I needed to sell. I didn’t point out Read More …

Business Growth Opportunites

The greatest growth opportunities are on the edges of the use of our product/services. Or, on the edges of the 5Rs of Growth. We must make a concentrated effort to identify and participate in relevant knowledge flows on the edges of these 5Rs. When we envision tomorrow’s best product or service being used in our Read More …

What Does Sales Want From Their Manager?

Dave Brock (Partners in Excellence) is recognized as a thought leader, sales and marketing, new product introductions, and strategic partnering. Dave helps organizations develop and execute high impact strategies and programs in these areas.  Not only a leading thinker and strategist, Dave further distinguishes himself by supporting his clients in the implementation and execution of strategies Read More …

6 Steps For Creating A Marketing Campaign

If there’s positive buzz AND we offer hope AND an enabling environment AND a sticky solution AND expanded comfort zones AND the right inviter This is the shorthand version of a change effort that Les Robinson depicts in the book, Changeology: How to Enable Groups, Communities, and Societies to Do Things They’ve Never Done Before. In the Read More …

Apollo on Sales Funnels

Bob Apollo is the founder and principal consultant behind Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, one of the UK’s leading B2B sales and marketing performance improvement specialists. Bob works with promising early stage companies to help them “Cross the Chasm” from early adopters to mainstream markets, and with established organisations to refocus their sales and marketing activities and Read More …

Agile Project Management: Highsmith A3

One of the best books I have read and certainly the one that has influenced me the most on Agile Project Management is Jim Highsmith’s book of the same name. I have referenced his material for many years on this blog. We are not short of Project Management books and Agile books, in general, but Read More …