Sales Strategy and Execution

Dave Brock (Partners in Excellence) is recognized as a thought leader, sales and marketing, new product introductions, and strategic partnering. Dave speaks frequently on a wide range of business, sales, leadership, and related topics.  He has addressed audiences in more than 40 countries around the globe.  He is featured in many leading publications, including Selling Power, CEO Express, ThinkSales, Read More …

The Dialogue between Sales and Strategy

Even within the realm of sales management, it’s important to recognize the interacting dimensions that must be managed to link selling effectiveness with strategy. – Excerpt from the book, Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling Excerpt from tomorrow’s Business901 podcast with the author Frank Cespedes:  Joe: Well, I guess I’ll start where Read More …

The Strategy Guide for Who You Know

When I was given this book, How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits, to consider it for the Business901 Podcast, my first thoughts was one of distaste for the awful word of networking. However, once I opened the book, I read it cover to cover in Read More …

Connecting Strategy and Customer Service

John Goodman is the author of  Strategic Customer Service and Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC). CCMC’s customer satisfaction and loyalty surveys and analytics are used by leading Fortune 500 companies from every industry to produce a better ROI from their investments in customer experience. John has managed more than 1,000 separate Read More …

Strategy & Customer Service, Part 2 of 2

John Goodman, Vice Chairman of Customer Care Measurement and Consulting (CCMC), has published scores of articles including “Using Service to Grow the Top Line” in the AMA Journal, 8 articles in Quality Progress as well as BrandWeek, the American Banker and Marketing News. Business Week credits John’s research for creation of the GE Answer Center, Read More …