Mutual Success Plans: Land and Expand Faster

Mutual Success Plans: Land and Expand Faster

In the current noisy, competitive market environment with very busy buyers, sales teams need to shift from a focus on individual sales transactions to a focus on continuously deepening and expanding value across a series of connected conversations.  The best tool to...
Content Marketing as Revenue Enablement

Content Marketing as Revenue Enablement

Content marketing, in all its many forms, plays a critical role these days in supporting purchasing decisions. However, despite increasing volumes of content being produced for use in sales, marketing and customer success, the great majority of content is missing the...
Anchor on Buyer-Defined Value

Anchor on Buyer-Defined Value

CEOs and revenue leaders often ask me “What is the most important thing I can do to drive sales revenue more consistently?”  My response is always the same:  “Train your sales team to start and end every sales conversation on buyer goals and payoffs.”  If you anchor...
Trust Building as a Behavior

Trust Building as a Behavior

People in sales and business know instinctively that trust is key to selling.  LinkedIn’s annual State of Sales report reinforces this with its survey data, calling the need for building trust building skills “an enduring trend.” In the 2018 report 49% of sales...
Selling the Success Narrative

Selling the Success Narrative

In the fall of 2019, I was on a video call with Christina Yu, Mursion’s Vice President of Marketing, strategizing on how the marketing team could do more to support the company’s rapid sales growth.   In 2015 Mursion had started the market for immersive, virtual...