Maybe it is - but which numbers? See Guest Speak Alan Timothy on the latest recorded (and free) Canterbury Tale of Modern Selling - The Bean-Counter's Tale...
Most of the world thinks we're a bit nearer to dodgy dealer Del Boy, than a champion of good things like Superman or Wonder Woman. And how fair is that?....
The good news is that the majority of IFAs, and many other sellers, now have a direct website. The bad news is that very few of those sites actually support our sales efforts. Here's your A B C guide to recovery...
...it's making sure your stuff actually gets to your shiny new customer too! Mark Burgess has avoided everything from Pirates on the High Seas to the Minefields of the Bureaucrats, and hopes he can help you...
Gyms and Sales Training Companies both seem to benefit from New Year's Resolutions. But just as signing up for gym membership won't do you any good unless you keep up an exercise routine, taking your team through sales training won't improve their performance unless you consistently reinforce the principles they have been taught, argues Bob Apollo.
Are you interested in business-social media and integrated online and offline communities and networks and communication tools and so on? Yah - me too...
"Mea Culpa" or "Guilty as Charged Your Honour" is David Thorp's take on all this, on behalf of collaborators from the Sales Leadership Alliance arm of The Chartered Institute of Marketing, what's yours?....
Here's a funny story about everyday (modern) business people. I was sitting (not so quietly, as it happened) in the UK Business Network LinkedIn Group, minding my own business (literally). But then...
Whether we, as professional B2B sales people, like it or not buying methods are changing. We are being invited into the conversation later and later, if at all. All too often we arrive at the party to find out that we are just making up the numbers and the big decisions - like "Whose 'stuff' shall we buy?" - have already been made.
Sales, selling, sales management and sales strategies. Is it all a game of luck, numbers, science or art? Find out for yourself, and test your strategy...
As the rich and famous (and not so rich and not so famous) plan to jet in to Heathrow on November 17th for the Sales Summit 2011, here's Sean McPheat to answer a few of your preliminary questions...
Have you recovered from 2010’s sluggish ride? Are you ready to get out of economic purgatory and transform your sales pipeline in 2011?
Join this timely and informative, complimentary, live webinar session as Josiane Feigon, best-selling author and trend tracker, shares her sales predictions for 2011.