10/14/2020 11:09:08 AM A Sales Enablement Conundrum: Who’s Coaching the Coach? By Tim Hughes I often get contacted by people to go into the business and give a one hour session on social / digital / remote / virtual selling. It's...
8/18/2019 10:58:04 AM Is it Time to Rethink “digital”? By Tim Hughes I've just got off a telephone call where the conversation was about digital transformation and I was looking for insight about how a...
8/11/2019 10:20:41 AM The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction By Tim Hughes A friend of mine came to me and said he had lost confidence in selling. I said to him rubbish and then got him to talk about his current...
8/3/2019 4:54:35 AM Executives are out of touch with the Human Effects of Digital Darwinism By Tim Hughes I was on the phone to a senior executive from sales the other day and they relayed a conversation from a senior management away day they...
7/13/2019 12:00:00 AM How to Use Strategic Partnerships for More Explosive Growth By Tim Hughes When Adam, Alex and I started Digital Leadership Associates (DLA) dlaignite.com we were asked by one of our clients what our global roll...
7/11/2019 1:49:57 PM What Is Sales Enablement and Why Does It Matter? By Tim Hughes What is Sales Enablement? It’s a question I ask many people. I then ask the person to answer the question without mentioning some type of...
7/10/2019 2:09:54 PM The Power of Digital Literacy: Increase Your Organization’s Knowledge By Tim Hughes Digital Transformation is not about moving to cloud, IOT, Blockchain or whatever technology is flavour of the month right now. Digital...
7/9/2019 2:14:50 PM C-Suite Execs Need to up their Game on Social if they Want to Keep Investors Close By Tim Hughes Wherever I travel, people are using social media, the internet and mobile as a way to make and inform their decisions. While I know many...
7/7/2019 2:53:01 PM Pivoting to Digital Maturity By Tim Hughes Always find these articles “interesting” if a little “off putting”. Is it just me that finds them a little “ivory tower”? I know the...
7/7/2019 1:18:01 AM Everyone is an influencer, everything is influenced... By Tim Hughes There is a lot of BS talked about in the world of influencer marketing. I think this is because if people, that is, consumers think it’s...
7/5/2019 2:57:15 PM Social Media ad Spend Growth Plummets Amid Decline in Trust By Tim Hughes Apart from ad agencies and people who sell Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram ads, nobody reads ads anymore! It's a fact of life. I have no...
7/4/2019 3:04:32 PM The New Virtual Handshake and How to Get It Right (Hint: It’s the Future of Sales) By Tim Hughes As I travel the US, everybody I talk to say that cold calling is dead and laugh at these gurus that still push this legacy sales method....
7/2/2019 4:23:31 AM B2B Marketing Is Changing, And You Can No Longer Afford To Be Boring By Tim Hughes Has B2B Marketing really changed? 25 years ago when I started in sales we sent out letters, now we send out emails, we have saved the...
6/29/2019 3:59:01 AM A Winning Operating Model for Digital Strategy By Tim Hughes Digital is changing the world. Digital finds its own level. Digital is not IT change, it is finding new efficiencies and effectiveness...
6/22/2019 6:07:40 PM Why Sales Cycles Get Shorter with Social Selling By Tim Hughes According to this article Cloud companies are getting "hammered" by the stock market because sales cycles are getting longer. This we...
6/20/2019 8:31:54 PM Becoming CEO - How as a Sales Leader You Can Rise Through the Ranks By Tim Hughes Becoming a CEO does not mean turning up everyday and doing your number. Doing your number is "table stakes", it's doing your job. ...