It all seemed so lovely about a month and a half ago, didn’t it? Your strategic plan was pretty and perfect and covered with Corporate Overlord lipstick. Your operating plan was mostly finished, except for those murky bits in the fourth quarter. Your battered and bruised budget, was finally locked down, and the holidays beckoned. […]
Is Content Marketing Killing Sales?
What’s faster than a squirrel with a nice big nut in its sights? Other than Volkswagens (I really did try to stop) and ambitious dogs, the Internet comes to mind. Last week we tackled the sad truth about B2B content: most of it (60-70%) goes unused by sales teams. There a few reasons for this, […]
Why Sales Doesn't Use Most Marketing Content
If you have read the venerable children’s book, Paddle to the Sea, then you can understand how frustrating it can be to get a piece of content out the door. In Paddle, a boy carves a wooden guy in a canoe and releases it. The book tells the tale of the carving’s trip down rivers, […]
Dont Waste Your Sales Call Do-Over
There are so few opportunities for redemption in the cold, hard world of B2B selling. Deals are big, cycles are long, memories are longer. But just as tennis offers a second serve, sales offers the get-out-of-suckiness-free card in the form of the follow-up . Last week we met some lazy, ill-equipped and dangerously eager sales people […]
Six Ways to Not Suck at Selling Things to Me
Did I send some message into the universe that attracts bad sales people? Is there a rehab centre nearby for under-performers? Have suppliers everywhere been forced to hire chipmunks and voles instead of real Sales Squirrels? I’m in a new role these days, one that spends more than the old role. Plus I’ve been pretty […]
