Having worked from home and having led home-based and hybrid sales teams, these were always myths to me. But I guess it took the pandemic and the forced experiment almost all companies undertook about a year ago to expand the idea beyond sales and beyond those companies that had progressively embraced it already.
Read MoreMerging sales organizations and ensuring that they deliver the revenue synergies is hard work. On paper, especially when grasping for straws to make the deal work, it always looks logical and makes sense. It almost always ignores the human aspect of sales: the team, the clients, and their interactions.
Read MoreWe’re talking about 5 signs your small business or start-up is in high-growth mode and how you can collaborate with a Fractional CFO to ease the pain.
Read MoreWhy should business owners and CEOs hire small, independent professionals, as opposed to other, more traditional options? Here are her top five reasons.
Read MoreWhat has been your worst buying experience? Mine continues to be buying a car. The process is broken, ripe for re-engineering and disruption. The proverbial car salesman is not dead! And they all attend the same old school of playing games.
Read MoreIn today’s market place no business can afford to stand-still. In fact, it is impossible. One is either moving forward or going backward. And hopefully going forward with profitable new name revenues.
Read MoreIn a conversation with a founder, he shared that in preparation for his start-up he read books and watched every podcast of a certain sales guru; and now he was ready to sell.
Read MoreResearchers have shown that we think more than 50,000 thoughts per day, of which more than half are negative and more than 90% are just repeats from the day before.
Read MoreHow do you tell your R&D team that while you value their work, their innovation on Product Performance matters the least to customers? The executive I was with has had this very conversation and was able to demonstrate how, for his business, Customer Engagement was the most impactful type.
Read MoreAmong all the blogs, newsletters, and publications that I follow, there was a recent uptick in the content on optimism. After months of news on pandemic, closure, stay-at-home, and recession, I guess we all can use some good news.
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