Sales Blueprint Insights
Thoughts on various sales related topics together with some of the answers to questions we have been asked over the years.
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Observations on B2B selling
There’s no escaping that activity drives results. If you don’t know which the key sales activities are and how much of each you need you’re managing b...
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What is it with technology businesses?
I was with some investors earlier this week who focus on relatively early stage businesses who need help in the commercialisation of their product/ser...
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Operations people doing a bit of selling
A common way of enhancing your company’s sales presence on the ground is to get some of the current operational staff to do a bit of selling when they...
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To infinity and beyond?
A recent visit to an upmarket car showroom that prides itself (so the marketing blurb goes) on offering ‘VIP customer service’ and ‘inspired performan...
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Marvellous presentation but what’s in it for me?
I recently sat in on some training for a client that involved helping the sales team become better at presenting their offer at the end of the sales p...
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If you needed a goalscorer why did you buy a goalkeeper?
Recently I had a conversation with a Sales Manager about a new starter that wasn’t succeeding - he’d sold nothing for six months and the obvious concl...
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Transferable sales skills?
I recently returned from our fourth project in the US in the past 18 months and on the plane back for the last time I was struck by just how transfera...
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Gnilles - Selling backwards!
In the 7 years that we have been working with private equity-backed businesses one of the most prevalent issues and regular barrier to delivering the ...
