4/30/2024 12:23:43 PM 61% of sales reps are not skilled at selling to C-level buyers By Tim Hughes When I worked in corporate, we had 7 salespeople that always made 200%, the rest of the salespeople often scrapped 60%. When we looked...
4/26/2024 11:29:25 AM Faced with spamageddon where is the martech industry in 2024? By Tim Hughes It was interesting that Scott Brinker and Frans Riemersma published their Martech 2024 report*, not long after the announcement of...
4/26/2024 11:12:47 AM We keep posting about our event on social and it still makes no impact on number of attendees By Tim Hughes A marketer friend of mine said that she would try a social media to publicise her latest event, she put out posts and got the employees...
4/25/2024 12:20:30 PM Why your social media is a billboard in the desert By Tim Hughes Looking out over LinkedIn I do wonder sometimes about the effort put into social media and the actual return in $ they get back. It does...
4/24/2024 12:31:49 PM How to generate pipeline from your partners and channel By Tim Hughes It's a question we often get asked. How to generate pipeline from your partners and channel? You have to empower your partners with the...
4/23/2024 12:49:38 PM What makes a good discovery session a success? ... and it's not what you think By Tim Hughes Spotted a post the other day which was about one of the sales leaders team that was making quota. The reason why she was making quota,...
4/22/2024 12:40:37 PM Why CEOs are expanding their story beyond company news on social media By Tim Hughes In a recent report by HR Advisors, the report here, they said “The best-in-class CEOs on social are not simply watching conversations...
4/19/2024 11:22:59 AM The power of connection, why you need to invest in yourself and get a network By Tim Hughes In his book "Tipping Point", Malcolm Gladwell, tells the story of the 1773 Boston Tea Party. It was this that was the tipping point for...
4/18/2024 11:17:58 AM 1 in 3 buyers would rather not see brand content on social media at all By Tim Hughes In some recent Hootsuite research they found that 1 in 3 consumers would rather not see brand content on social media at all. But there’s...
4/17/2024 4:14:48 AM Well done, you got 100 likes on that post, but what will you do with them? By Tim Hughes I see a lot of people posting now on social media, which is great, the message that your buyer, customers, employees, future employees,...
4/16/2024 6:32:37 AM The secret sauce to linear sales and linear revenue model By Tim Hughes The world of SaaS and cloud has heralded a number of changes from the legacy methods of the past. One change is that the sales team must...
4/12/2024 11:13:31 AM Buyers decide when they will engage with sellers, and it is nearly always about 70% of the way through their buying journey By Tim Hughes In this recent Linkedin article by Kerry Cunningham, article here. He says, “Buyers decide when they will engage with sellers, and it is...
4/12/2024 7:46:30 AM Today is an 8 year anniversary - 8 years since I published an article connecting social selling with revenue creation By Tim Hughes Today is the day, 8 years ago that I published the blog How to use Twitter to get 10 C-Level Appointments Per Week — A Case Study It was...
4/11/2024 7:28:13 AM The Point of First Contact (POFC) between buyer and seller is now 70% of the way through the buying process By Tim Hughes Following Kerry Cunningham's recent Linkedin post, here. The Point of First Contact (POFC) between buyers and sellers is now 70% of the...
4/10/2024 8:15:14 AM 10 books to sharpen your leadership skills over the next quarter By Tim Hughes “Becoming a coach – The essential ICF guide” by Jonathan Passmore and Tracy Sinclair is a book that outlines what it takes to be...
4/9/2024 8:29:37 AM Posts published on personal LinkedIn profiles receive up to 561% more interaction than company / brand page posts By Tim Hughes Based on this LinkedIn benchmark, we have found that "Posts published on personal Linkedin profiles receive up to 561% more interaction...