Rehearsing your next Sales Call, why not?

At the Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play — with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn’t). Tim Brown is the CEO of innovation and design firm IDEO, taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface. Read More …

Increase Sales, Incr Face Time

Recently, I made a statement that said it is a disaster to have sales people operating on their own. I think sales can be better served by a team effort. One of the key players in the Value Stream Marketing concept is the sales person or sales team. I think the team should consist of Read More …

Sales & Marketing Work Together?

Many organizations would say not at all. Others believe they do, but really don’t know. A few will say very well, but I would believe these really, really don’t know. Why since they are so intertwined do they not work well? A few reasons: Marketers are typically introverts and Sales are extroverts. Marketers deal with Read More …

The Lean Edge and Zen – 2 great topics discovered

This is a nifty project management tool based on Kanban principles that Jim Benson of Personal Kanban told me about during the recording of our podcast. . What is Zen? Zen is a simple and flexible application that draws on ideas from lean manufacturing to provide a new way of thinking about project management. Rather Read More …

Work in Process is Wasteful even in Sales and Marketing

One of the tenants I am convinced of is that Work in Process is wasteful and unproductive. If you look at this from a Sales and Marketing Process it basically says that the more people you have in your sales and marketing funnel the more unproductive you are. A blog recently by Jim Benson of Read More …