Outside In Thinking - Blog
New normal selling – Challenge
CEO Steve starts with three words written on his page, new normal recovery. What does the current world mean for his company’s approach to Sales? Part 1/2
New normal selling – Growth plan
CEO Steve and his team make some tough decisions on their growth strategy. Read about their focus for sales and marketing in the new normal.
Forget outcome measures
If you are trying to track the improvement of your sales team’s performance based on outcome measures/targets, you’re [mostly] wrong. Read this to find out why.
DealSheet, DealCoach and enablement links.
DealSheet got better today – with DealCoach as standard to help sales managers improve the effectiveness of opportunity reviews and embeded enablement links to support salespeople.
Training is the go-to for lazy sales managers
The go-to development option for lazy sales managers is “training”. In this short post learn why this is such a poor option and the alternatives available.
Your company value proposition defines how you must sell.
How will you focus your sales effort to make best use of your company value proposition? Heres how to select one of three possible approaches.
Are you coachable?
Are you coachable as a sales professional? If not you are going to limit your success. Read more about the three key steps to effective coaching.
How to do discovery.
Do you want to improve your discovery process? Here’s a structure you can use to improve this area of your sales process.
Discovery is the foundation of selling value.
Poor discovery is the biggest root cause of lost deals and pipeline slippage. Here’s some ideas on what to do about it for B2B sellers.