Lean Sales and Marketing: Driving Sales w Storyboards

Remember, how we had those presentation brochures and we would flip through them to do our paper PowerPoint. They were filled with all the features and benefits of our products and services; bullet pointed and mixed in were a bunch of cool pictures. Along came notebook computers and we had real-live PowerPoints. Now, we have Read More …

Sales & Marketing: Outcome Based Mapping

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of The New Economics, second edition by W. Edwards Deming: A system cannot understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside. The aim of this chapter is to provide an outside view-a lens-that I call a system of profound knowledge. It provides a map of theory Read More …

Your Sales and Marketing Metrics are lagging!

Don’t be a laggard be a leader. Many of us have just completed the typical Sales and Marketing plan for the upcoming year. We know the Dwight D. Eisenhower quote: “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. We are ready to change it at a moment’s notice. We are very agile in nature. Most of Read More …

Lean Sales Conversation

The ability to handle a conversation in the sales process may be the single most important attribute a salesperson can have. We have all seen it, where that exceptional sales person time after time outperforms everyone else. We may make excuses but deep down, most of us know, that Rainmaker, that Closer, gets the job Read More …