5/31/2023 7:52:10 AM How to reignite your sales strategy after Q1 By Tim Hughes The world seems to be ever changing, preparing for my podcast one of my future guests said "you business is either disrupting or being...
5/30/2023 11:52:39 AM Help, I Can't Advertise My 'Adult' Toys! By Stephen Sumner The 'adult' product industry say they're struggling to be able to 'market' their products on social media because of the naughty word...
5/30/2023 11:30:07 AM How To Solve (part of) The Retail Inflation Dilemma For Consumers! By Stephen Sumner Retail prices continue to remain stubbornly higher, there's even talk by the UK Government about retailers introducing price caps - crazy...
5/30/2023 9:42:45 AM I know you are posting on social, but let's be honest, how much revenue are you generating from those posts? By Tim Hughes Switch on LinkedIn, I will use that as an example of a "business" network and you can check out thousands of people that are posting on...
5/26/2023 10:45:04 AM Research shows that CEOs expect 60% of their net-new revenue will come from existing customers – an increase from just over 40% at the end of 2022 By Tim Hughes Just seen some research from SBI where they state .. "A couple of recent SBI surveys bear this out. CEOs and go-to-market leaders said...
5/26/2023 8:33:32 AM Salesforce found that only 13% of MQLs convert into SQLs. Out of that small pool of SQLs, sales departments generally only close 6% By Tim Hughes I recently found this blog by Jordan Abbott, where he stated this research from salesforce Salesforce found that only 13% of MQLs convert...
5/25/2023 8:23:05 AM Why your employees network growth has a value to you as a business owner By Tim Hughes I often write about conversations and why as a business you need conversations to live, trive and meet your growth targets. Sales need...
5/24/2023 7:22:48 AM 10 new prospect meetings a week, per sales rep, scaled across your sales team - now that would make a pipeline difference By Tim Hughes At that start of 2023, we started an exercise and created a benchmark. We ran a team of SDRs, to get meetings using social selling. No...
5/23/2023 7:46:04 AM Cold calling days? - It's 2023, surely there must a more efficient way of creating pipeline and creating it fast? By Tim Hughes I recently spotted post from Alex Abbott who is a CEO of a partner of ours, anyway I nicked some of his words to create this blog, thanks...
5/22/2023 10:19:57 AM “If a seller cannot talk to a customer's P&L and tell them what is going to be done to enhance it, then they won’t be successful as modern sales rep” By Tim Hughes This is a quote from a customer in a recent McKinsey report, you can access the report here. “If a seller cannot talk to a customer's P&L...
5/19/2023 8:33:17 AM Average contract values are down 20.3% QoQ - Marketers need to find 20% of additional pipeline - Sellers need to close an extra 2 customers -- each By Tim Hughes There was a recent post on Linkedin here which stated "Average contract values are down 20.3% QoQ, on Vendr's SaaS buying platform. This...
5/18/2023 8:27:26 AM I've been made a speaker of a LinkedinLive, how do I invite people? By Tim Hughes LinkedinLive is a great way to use the medium of video / podcasting to reach your prospects and customers with your influence and...
5/18/2023 7:35:15 AM Why buyers avoid at all costs the "debt of obligation" they have with salespeople and what you can do about it By Tim Hughes I've just interviewed, Antonia Wade, for my podcast, she has just written a book called "transforming the B2B buyer journey". You can...
5/17/2023 7:21:45 AM 10 books to kickstart your leadership skills this summer By Tim Hughes “Virtual Society” by Herman Narula is a great, non-technical, introduction to the Metaverse and the impact it will make on society. ...
5/16/2023 8:39:54 AM SDR call reluctance - How to overcome it By Tim Hughes I was reading recently about the impact of call reluctance, some research on Linkedin which asked the question "what stops your B2B sales...
5/15/2023 1:50:42 PM It now costs much more to acquire a new customer By Tim Hughes The cost of acquiring new customers is going up and up, with the return from old legacy sales and marketing methods get less and less....