Branding to Break Away: Five Tips for Sales Acceleration
Your most valuable sales tool is often the most overlooked and under-utilized one…your company brand. Let's face it: we all know it's easier to...
The Customer Disconnect: Fighting Contempt, Ignorance, and Seduction
According to an illuminating study from Bain Consulting, some 80 percent of executives from large public corporations believed they were providing "outstanding customer experiences"...
Branding to Break Away: Winning Market Share from the Inside Out
Our clients often say, "We need to boost our focus on communicating externally—we need to win more market share." While supportive of this goal,...
Online Freelancers: The Panacea to Your Restless Nights
When you see colleagues walking around with bags under their eyes, it's a safe bet one of two worries is keeping them awake at...
Branding to Break Away: How Client Perspectives Can Help Your Brand
We are often asked to help distinguish our clients from their competition. Sometimes they say they are losing deals and that no one knows...
Five Pointers for Your Interview for an International Career
How do you distinguish yourself in an interview when you are seeking an international career? You may be looking at a job opportunity that...
The New Requisite Board Skill Set for Growth Is Sales Experience
Is now the time when corporate sales and marketing skill sets are most valuable, and possibly an imperative, in the boardroom? Each...
Chronicles of a Sales Leader: OMG! Salespeople Can’t Write!
It's coming full circle. The earliest known evidence of communicating through writing dates back to 3300 B.C. It wasn't complete sentences, but...
Chronicles of a Sales Leader: Placing the Right Bets on Top-Line Growth
I've been to Vegas more often for business than for pleasure. In fact, I'm not really a Vegas kind of guy. Once in awhile,...
The Tale of the Presentation That Clinched the Sale And the Five Essential Elements for...
You're looking back on that big sale you made. You're picturing the meeting where the customer's people were reviewing your presentation and proposal. You...