Business

What Makes a Superstar Sales Manager

What do great sales managers do differently from the merely good sales managers? How do they stand out from the crowd when the head hunters start looking around? When the recession bites, or when market dynamics go against them, how do they keep their jobs while all about them are losing theirs? Good sales managers [...]

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The Scottish Paradox I Can’t Resolve

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Yesterday we explained about our latest FP7 project, and how we resolved the paradox between the undeniable opportunity and the unmanageable risk for SMEs getting involved. We didn’t explain the problems we’ve had with the Scottish business development agencies and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) in particular, so we’ll do that now.

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6 Secrets to Small Business Sales Management

SPPM

Learning how to manage sales in a small business is no simple challenge. There aren’t (m)any training courses which suit, there are no books (yet, watch this space), and hiring people who know how to do it is beyond the resources of most. The majority of small business owners have to learn this inexact science [...]

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Google Got It Right With Buzz

Internet Enabled Business

Image via CrunchBase Has Google got it right with Buzz? What do you think? From what I see the evidence just isn’t there right now. All of the noise and most of the activity is on Twitter. Maybe for kids and family Facebook has some sort of leadership, but Twitter has the mindshare, driven by [...]

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The Easy CRM Conspiracy

CRM

Have you heard of the Easy CRM conspiracy? It must be true. I read it on the Internet. Everywhere we look it’s there – Easy CRM. It must be true. Of course it’s all bollocks. I mean the Easy bit is all bollocks. That’s why its a conspiracy. There’s somebody keeps posting on Twitter – [...]

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A New Perspective on Social Media?

Internet Enabled Business

Our social media sales strategy deliberations moved on considerably today, and then hit another wall of confusion. We spent the morning talking about our experiences using networks to reach and influence people. That reinforced our conviction. We’d been asked to talk to friends who manage a golf club. They’d heard some of the stories about [...]

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Sales Strategy for Handling Price Objections

Sales Manager

Does your sales strategy include the use of price as a strategic tool for helping control conversations with customers and closing deals? And I don’t mean using discount to win deals! The critical success factor for most businesses is price integrity. Maximise your prices and a healthy bottom line just naturally follows. The reverse is [...]

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Pricing Strategy for Rainmakers

Sales Coach

What’s your pricing strategy for B2B sales? How do you decide the price customers should pay, and then persuade them to go along? How often is your idea of the right price accepted by prospects? How much revenue and margin do you lose when they just won’t agree? If your answers to these questions are [...]

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Translating Consultant Gobbledegook

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New entrepreneurs need start up advice in simple, direct language. Not consultant speak intended to confuse and impress. They have enough problems, with all the B/S they get from government agencies (who nothing about the subject), vendor marketing pitches designed to part them from their start up cash. The last thing start up entrepreneurs need [...]

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