A few weeks we brainstormed around the topic: “What can we (seller) actively do to push a buyer along his buyer journey?”. Fact is, that you only sell when the buyer wants to buy. You have only 2 options: wait until he made his journey on his own or with
Funny story: had the chance, a few months ago, to get an American “influencer” on the phone. In this case, “influencer” means someone with a lot of followers on all the social media platforms — but not necessarily any revenue stream outside of speaking or maybe writing. The influencer was
If we’re speaking frankly, there’s a lot of bullshit out there (sorry, had to say it) about customer behavior and the buying cycle. People assign it to a host of factors that have absolutely nothing to do with it, especially in B2B cycles. In fact, we often think selling is
And what’s your sales approach? For sales reps and principals, there is a big battle in terms of sales approach. Let me set this one up for you. Some salespeople are commission-only (not all, but some). In those situations, they need to be proactive at getting leads, nurturing leads, and
There is sometimes a belief that content marketing, which is normally associated with inbound sales and marketing efforts, doesn’t work with outbound sales. That’s actually not true — and thinking that is a mistake for your business. Content marketing is about educating people (ideally). A lot of times people do
For much of the last half-decade, it felt like outbound sales (“traditional” sales) was dying and inbound sales (content-driven) was replacing it. At the end of 2015, people were writing articles about how inbound killed the cold call — the cold call is a staple of outbound sales — and
Let me share with you my 3 favorite books that inspired and thought me about Modern Enterprise Sales. If you need fresh inspiration read them in that order: Aaron Ross “Predictable Revenue”, Matthew Dixon “The Challenger Sale” and Mark Roberge “The Sales Acceleration Formula”.
Conventional wisdom holds that revenue-per-sales-rep is the one and only sales metrics that ultimately matters in sales management. Partially true but sales process optimisation is all about identifying key strengths and coalescing the sales team into an efficient and scalable sales machine.
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