sales management
What are Priority Issue Profiles - and why do you need them?
Many of you will be familiar with the idea of having an Ideal Customer Profile - and if you’re not, you should be. The Ideal Customer Profile is a powerful tool that helps to align your entire organisation around the common characteristics of your most valuable existing and potential customers - a combination of demographic, structural and behavioural/cultural factors.
The digital buying journey is very human
We see tremendous research on the digital buying journey. We know customers spend more of their buying journey finding information in digital and other channels. Engagement with sales people represent the smallest part of their time investment. I’ve written about this transformation suggesting we are going through a transformation of sales led, digitally supported to digitally led, sales supported.
Want to be liked by your prospects? Get respect instead
I grew up playing sports. I played softball and volleyball, and I loved being part of a team. But no matter how much I’ve encouraged the idea, my daughters have never wanted to play sports. Then out of the blue, my oldest told me she wanted to play a sport in high school.
Is This Problem Important for Your Customer to Solve?
We struggle to get in front of customers, to find opportunities, to nurture them through the buying cycle, and, ultimately, to win. Yet, the majority of those complex buying opportunities end in “No Decision Made.”
Here’s What Everyone Gets Wrong About Sales, According to a Buying Facilitator
If you’ve ever had a conversation with Sharon-Drew Morgen, you know she doesn’t mince words when it comes to what sales leaders get wrong about sales. For more than 40 years, she’s been a thought leader and a provocateur, challenging the way we think about what we do and how we do it.
It’s the kiss of death in sales
Tell me, ever hear a salesperson say something like this: “Just had a great meeting. I think there is going to be $100,000 (or $10,000 or $1MM) of business there!”
