10/31/2022 12:35:45 PM Retail Isn't Innovating Because Marketing Has Become The Company Bullhorn. By Stephen Sumner The reason to hire a CMO is usually because you’ve got a big strategic problem to solve, you need to drive growth and become more...
10/31/2022 12:21:57 PM How The Simple 'Word Cloud' Can Become Your Superpower. By Stephen Sumner If you were sat in a bar, or coffee shop after you had a meeting with a potential new client (go with me) and they entered said...
10/31/2022 12:01:44 PM Influencers Can Build You Up & Take You Down - Here's How. By Stephen Sumner Prior to the pandemic and most certainly during it we saw several high profile retail stalwarts hit the terminal buffers. One of the...
10/31/2022 10:03:28 AM 74 percent of millennials and Gen Z will avoid cold calls and cold outreach By Tim Hughes Here are a number of stats from some recent research, which you can find here. 74 percent of millennials and Gen Z will avoid more sales...
10/28/2022 9:36:08 AM If an SDR only has 169 contacts on LinkedIn, are they doing their job? By Tim Hughes Today I was doing some prospecting, like all small businesses even the CEO has to prospect. Maybe it's my sales background, or maybe it's...
10/27/2022 8:11:51 AM The world is on digital - data update - 4th quarter 2022 By Tim Hughes Each quarter, our friend, Simon Kemp (if your not following him on Linkedin you should) creates this data report, here. This gives an...
10/26/2022 10:31:16 AM The fact that 10,000 martech products “kinda all do the same thing” isn't their biggest issue By Tim Hughes In this article by Scott Brinker he takes us through the argument, "why when we have 10,000 Martech products that all do the same thing,...
10/26/2022 8:10:39 AM What sort of return should I expect from a social selling pilot? By Tim Hughes It's a question we often get asked, "What sort of return should I expect from a social selling pilot?" Just to explain, we don't do...
10/25/2022 9:54:31 AM Our commercial worlds have evolved beyond recognition, yet we are still hiring the same people… By Digital Leadership Associates You may have noticed there are a lot more job adverts being posted for Sales and Business development professionals of late. What does it...
10/25/2022 9:38:25 AM "I don’t want to post personal content on Social Media…" By Digital Leadership Associates I don’t want to post personal content on Social Media… We hear this a lot, but it’s a distraction and you’ve missed the point. An...
10/25/2022 8:41:43 AM Feeling the labour shortage? Empowering your employees on social could be the solution By Tim Hughes In this article, they discuss the need for better "marketing", they are not so much talking about the marketing department, but could be....
10/24/2022 8:08:39 AM What should we do in our focus accounts to sell more of our stuff? By Tim Hughes I was talking to a sales leader this week and they have a set of focus accounts, I'm not sure they use the term Account based marketing...
10/21/2022 9:20:58 AM How you can push a button and be an influencer, just like that By Tim Hughes Lance Armstrong, the cyclist, wrote a book called "it's not about the bike" it's an amazing story of how he came back from surviving...
10/21/2022 7:47:03 AM Why social selling has to be part of your sales qualification process By Tim Hughes A friend of me was telling me the other day that they has received an unsolicited tender / RFP and they needed to qualify it. Many of us...
10/20/2022 8:59:12 AM Top 10 Digital Transformation Trends For 2023 By Tim Hughes I know Daniel Newman who wrote this post, in fact I have a quote from him in my book "social selling - techniques to influence buyers and...
10/19/2022 9:44:43 AM Why Is Big Retail Is Losing Out to Small Retail? By Stephen Sumner What do retail multiples do? - they buy other failed multiples, add them to the offer and then lose the brand connection and relevance to...