2/18/2019 8:50:09 AM Scouting for talent, a different approach. By Digital Leadership Associates I read an interesting article over the weekend that discussed the change of approach in identifying future talent in sport. When you...
12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM Coaching Social Selling - What You Need to Know By Tim Hughes At my previous company we rolled out social selling across 4,000 people. Now it would seem pretty easy, here you have a way of selling...
6/29/2018 5:44:52 AM Europe's GDPR Is Killing Email Marketing, to the Disappointment of No One By Tim Hughes A brief history of Marketing to date. In the 1930s there was advertising and (of course) nobody has access to the internet the only way...
6/28/2018 8:58:46 AM Halfway Through the Year and the Top Line Number Is off….How Can You Get Back on Track? By Tim Hughes Something has happened in the B2B world. We don't know what it is but marketers are saying to me "Marketing doesn't work anymore". This...
6/26/2018 8:34:52 AM Cultivating a Consistent Narrative: How to Avoid One Story at the Top and Another at the Bottom By Tim Hughes One of the things we try and do here at Digital Leadership Associates (DLA) www.social-experts.net is keep everybody abreast of what is...
6/20/2018 10:19:37 AM Europe's New Data Rules Are Gutting Email Marketing Everywhere By Tim Hughes It does not seem like good news for email marketing following the GDPR regulations came into place following the 25th May 2018. That said...
5/18/2018 8:22:50 AM The Ultimate Guide To B2B Influencer Marketing By Tim Hughes A large accounting software company, well it was actually their PR agency contacted me and they want a call about how to work together,...
5/3/2018 9:00:18 AM Are You Utilising Employee Advocates? Here’s Why They Are Essential to Your Sales Strategy By Tim Hughes One of the problems we are often asked about is "how do we get more leads and meetings?" and the answer is pretty simple. We activate...
4/28/2018 12:45:52 PM The disappearance of the distinction between B2B and B2C marketing By Tim Hughes Great article by Gartner about the merger of B2B and B2C marketing. While I would agree B2B marketing does not need to drive you to a...
4/12/2018 9:15:35 AM Why Don’t Buyers Want To Meet With Your Salespeople? By Tim Hughes Interesting research from Forrester about why people don't want to meet with salespeople. Two statistics that Forrester pull out is that...
3/20/2018 5:30:53 PM Purpose - The Number One Thing You Need To Win Deals (According to Research) By Tim Hughes My Co-Founder, Adam Gray and I have just returned from a back to back meetings and workshops in Singapore and Australia. One meeting we...
3/15/2018 8:02:35 PM How Account Based Marketing (ABM) / Selling Will Unlock the Modern Buyer(s) By Tim Hughes I was presenting yesterday and was explaining how many of today's modern marketing techniques are not fit for purpose. What do I mean?...
3/1/2018 5:53:51 PM While Digital Leadership Associates is Located in London We Have Clients Worldwide By Tim Hughes When Adam and I started Digital Leadership Associates (DLA) some 18 months ago we decided to be located in London. Probably because we...
1/12/2018 12:00:00 AM I Got Ninety Nine Sales Tools, But a Meeting? I Ain't Got One By Tim Hughes I meet many companies and their sales teams and the one factor that stands out is the purchase of sales tools, that are given to the...
12/14/2017 6:23:16 AM Hello, is it Trust You're Looking For? By Tim Hughes There is an old saying in sales that "people buy people". I think to a certain extent this is right, we have all purchased something off...
12/12/2017 9:21:25 AM GDPR Transforms Sales From Push to Pull By Tim Hughes Regardless if you are Stateside or European, if you sell to European companies then you are required to comply with GDPR regulations. But...