Most managers are excited by technology. Technology enables us to get more done, faster. And technology is practical. Concrete. It’s not about ideas; it’s about execution. This is certainly true in sales environments. It’s almost impossible to propose any initiative without prompting the question: is there software for that? In sales environments, the answer to […]
I’ve waxed lyrical about Mixergy before. Andrew Warner is a successful entrepreneur in his own right and, every day of the week, he interviews a founder with a story worthy of note. Typically, these founders have built (and very often sold) successful tech companies. Other times, they just have a particularly interesting story to tell. […]
I love webinars and, increasingly, our clients are learning to love them too! In this post I’ll share some of our experiences with webinars over the last 7 months and show you why we’re so enthusiastic about them. The results In a previous post, I told you how we build our list (generate new relationships). […]
I’m so happy to post this video! On the one hand it demonstrates that organizations can implement SPE without the assistance of Ballistix. On the other hand it suggests that we’ve made huge progress in our efforts to codify and communicate both the principles and the practice of SPE. Aside from reading our books and […]
When Megara – a Melbourne (Australia) based manufacturer of polypropylene products – was contemplating radical changes to the design of their sales function, a list of concerns was identified: Would customers be happy dealing (by phone, rather than face-to-face) with account managers who were located in another region? Would customers tolerate the requirement to interact […]
A little over a year ago, I posted on our initial experiments with “social media” (or, more specifically, with pay-per-click advertising). That post was well received so this one is an update. Actually, it’s more than an update: it’s a review of our entire US lead-generation machine. I hope it provides you an idea or […]
If you’re not in the fortunate situation where promotion is easy, then the odds are that it’s really difficult. If you’re in the latter category, this chapter will introduce you to the magnitude of the promotional challenge ahead and explain why (fortunately) moderate success is probably more than sufficient in the early stages of your […]
This is the title of a Harvard Business Review article that has caused a bit of a stir in sales circles. The authors divide (B2B) salespeople into five groups and argue that, of the five profiles, one significantly out-performs the others – and that one under-performs, to a similar degree. Here are the five profiles […]
“We’ve seen a really dramatic increase in sales …”, Joe explains. “A good sales growth for us … in the industrial glove market … would be 5%. But, even through the recession, we’ve seen a pretty dramatic increase in sales. This year we’re about 25% up in our sales over the previous year. “I think […]
