What is the greatest skillset missing from B2B sales today?
Simply put – it’s CREATIVITY. Through many years of hiring and managing sales teams (and working with clients who do so), sales reps are usually evaluated on their ability to hit their quota in the...
5 Mistakes You Make When Hunting Large, Enterprise Accounts
🔥 You treat enterprise accounts like any other account! 🔥 Most sales reps may have a few large targets in their territory mixed in with SMB targets and they tend to follow the same process...
Why are Companies Focused on Key Account and NOT Key Prospects?
I have been part of numerous organizations where the sales and executive team would meet to determine who their key accounts were and what the criteria were for qualifying as one. They would...
5 Reasons You Should NOT Hire Another Sales Account Executive
There is an old joke in retail that goes, “We lose money but we make it up in volume!” Obviously in that scenario no matter how much you sell, you will always be losing money. To me this sounds like...
Focused Account-Based Marketing Strategy Can Transform Your Business
Why waste resources trying to catch the attention of customers who have no long-term effects on your business? Ensure lasting success and profitability by incorporating strategic sales into focused...
All I Need to Know about Sales I Learned in 1967…
Even though I have been in the technology sales field for 30 years I am always looking to learn new things. Is the current economic climate shifting? Are customers increasing or decreasing...
What the SAP vs. Oracle battle from the 2000’s can teach tech companies today about growth
After 30 years you can imagine how much junk (I mean awards, mementos, etc.) you can gather from the companies you work for. Especially during the 90’s and early 2000’s which were they heyday of the...
4 Reasons Why Large Customers are Like a Thanksgiving Turkey
If you’re like me you’ve been having Thanksgiving leftovers in some form or fashion from a leftover turkey dinner to turkey sandwiches, turkey omelets, turkey tacos and even turkey casserole. For...