Sat.Oct 07, 2017

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“All Generalizations Are Wrong….” Be Aware Of Expert Advice

Partners in Excellence

1000’s of blogs from real and self-proclaimed experts appear every day. Each asserts they have “the answers.” Often, these answers are based on deep experience from the writer. We can learn a lot in reading those. We are hungry for answers. Each of us faces challenges that are real and very difficult. We are anxious to find answers, often leaping to “magic solutions” based on the experience of some pundit.

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Right on the Money

Engage Selling

Pop quiz: name me three companies who’ve mastered the art of sales acceleration today. You’d likely pick giant performers. Answers might include Apple, SAP and Salesforce. Or maybe exciting newer companies like Shopify, FAEF, YOUi Labs Inc., and Kinnser Software.

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People Don't Do Dumb Things on Purpose

Sales Gravy

Good leaders know that when someone is doing the wrong thing, there is a reason. During seminars when I teach leaders the principle that “People don’t do dumb things on purpose.

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Prevent Defense or Permit Offense? What a Football Argument Has to Do with B2B Sales Lead Generation

Pointclear

According to Wikipedia, the Prevent Defense is a defensive alignment in American football that seeks to prevent the offense from completing a long pass or scoring a touchdown in a single play and seeks to run out the clock. Super Bowl winning coach John Madden doesn’t quite agree with this definition. He has this to say about the prevent defense: "All a prevent defense does is prevent you from winning.".

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.