4/30/2025 6:09:30 AM My small part in Oracle getting to #1 in the ERP market By Tim Hughes I spotted this other day a post from Yorick Astier with details of a report The report showed that Oracle was now #1 in the ERP market,...
4/28/2025 7:39:17 AM Buying a book on how to write prompts will still only make you average, so how can you be great with AI in sales? By Tim Hughes One of the big learnings for us was that AI, gave a pretty average answer Now for people that are not modern selling currently, zero to...
4/27/2025 4:32:28 AM What did I learn in my trip to the Vatican when I was 13? By Tim Hughes When I was 13, there was a school holiday to Florence in Italy It was a long way to go on a coach, but Florence is a wonderful place As...
4/25/2025 10:14:40 AM The great employee / employer AI skills disconnect - and how to fix it By Tim Hughes In a recent report by Workera, “2025 State of Skills Intelligence Report” and an article by ZDnet The research surveyed 800 learning and...
4/25/2025 7:40:46 AM How can we accelerate our deals? By Tim Hughes Was on a call today and somebody said “there is no way you can accelerate deals” I had to challenge that One of the issues of legacy...
4/24/2025 4:36:09 PM Why we've never spent a $ on marketing By Tim Hughes In the 8 years that we've been existence we've never spent $ on marketing Why? Because we've never needed to We've never cold called...
4/24/2025 8:54:28 AM How can you get maximum efficiency from your full sales cycle role? By Tim Hughes A full sales role is where you have to generate all of your leads It's a role I've been in all my life My time, if it isn't closing, is...
4/23/2025 5:59:48 AM The zero time social selling program By Tim Hughes Here at DLA Ignite we have been beavering away with AI After all, if you are going to transform your sales team to modern selling That...
4/22/2025 8:06:25 AM 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 By Tim Hughes If you’re in B2B enterprise sales, you’ve probably faced the dreaded long sales cycle It’s one of the biggest challenges sales...
4/20/2025 4:21:01 AM How to cross the road in Hanoi By Tim Hughes Crossing the road is easy isn’t? Not in Hanoi in Vietnam In the world wealth, or relative wealth is visual in different ways In Moscow,...
4/18/2025 4:33:59 AM The one thing you are doing on LinkedIn that will make your buyers sick and drive them away By Tim Hughes Picking up on something new isn't always a good idea Linkedin has just announced that the banner at the top of your profile can now have...
4/17/2025 8:44:17 AM AI Literacy: Why it’s no longer optional for organizations By Tim Hughes Here at DLA Ignite, while we are a relatively small business, we all understand the need to understand AI We've had philosophical...
4/17/2025 7:57:03 AM The problem with corporate content is that nobody believes it By Tim Hughes This is was a CRO said to me this week “The problem with corporate content is that nobody believes it” We talked about how if you “like”...
4/16/2025 7:23:59 AM How can I purposefully shorten my B2B sales cycles? By Tim Hughes In the B2B sales world, regardless how much we try and simply a sales cycle the moving parts of any deal is complex We know that B2B...
4/13/2025 4:31:16 AM I got scammed twice in the country of happiness By Tim Hughes Bhutan is a beautiful country It's a kingdom and the king, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Believes that a country should be measured on...
4/11/2025 7:41:13 AM When you post an "open to work", don't make this massive mistake By Tim Hughes I see a number of people that are posting “open to work” posts Clearly I am very sorry about this and I salute their bravery Doing this...