Insights
Prospecting as a Trusted Advisor
Sales teams make two big mistakes in their prospecting work. First, in their messaging they rely too heavily on product pitching, content and attention grabbers that lead to an information blur and cause prospects to check out. Second, in their outreach approach,...
Value-Driven Growth: It Matters More Than Ever
Most sales and marketing teams spend too much time leading with their product and product functionality. Product pitching typically causes buyer disengagement. A few years back Forrester found that 80% of executives believe meetings with sellers are a waste of time...
Forecast Accuracy: It’s All About the Buyer Gets
Deal Drift Most mid-stage deals are poorly qualified . Recent research from Xant (formerly InsideSales.com) on more than a quarter million sales deals shows that only 28% of closed deals are predicted accurately 90 days out, and the actual close amounts differ by 31%...
Cold Calling is Dead, Long Live Cold Calling
Cold Calling is Dead When the Internet, then email, then social media came along to transform the way people and businesses communicate, the “death of the sales representative” was widely and broadly predicted. Even Neil Rackham, creator of SPIN Selling asserted in...