Posts in Sales
Define Your Ideal Customer -- Or Be Magnetic To No One

It’s obvious that knowing your target customer is a critical part of operating and growing any business. Defining your ideal prospect drives all aspects of sales and marketing, but also provides direction for the entire enterprise, from developing products and services, creating positioning, developing sales enablement programming, and building the organization, from people to tech stack to processes.

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‘We have No Budget’ – How to Overcome the Client’s Stone Wall

budget is a scarce resource! There are always more opportunities to spend than there is budget available. And so, companies and their decision makers prioritize and spend on what brings the greatest value. Or at least what they perceive brings the greatest value…

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Always Trust Your Instruments

Great Sales Leaders understand this. They embrace all available technology, align digital and human interactions, trust their instrument and the process, and use the deliberate human touch to their advantage.

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Sales-Centric or Bust

I think that sales-centric and customer-centric are inherently the same. In today’s transparent markets, one cannot sell without putting the customer front and center. Simply put, salespeople work to understand customer needs or problems and then sell solutions that address those.

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Social Selling for Fractional Executives: Get Started with Your Pipeline of New Customers

We'll discuss the basics of social selling and how you can get started right away. We'll also talk about some of the benefits of social selling and how it can help you grow your business.

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The Top 6 Signs of a Bad Sales Manager

It is a very personal list. Because what one person may consider bad sales management is looked upon very favorably by someone else. There are also contradicting professional opinions on the same management style.

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Do Not Hire

Especially in the startup world, pivots on everything from product to GTM strategy are very common. Most of those directly impact employees. And even without major pivots, startups go through phases or stages in their growth process.

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How to Lead a Sales Team at an Enterprise Software Company

When executives put their hiring criteria together, I would implore them to throw out the regurgitated and stale approach so often used and statistically unsuccessful - wait for it - “the rolodex and product experts.”

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