Sales

  1. Partner Onboarding: How To Set The Stage For A Successful Rapport 9/27/2016

    To a vendor, this question is the bread and butter to a productive and healthy channel network; an indirect sales funnel that is tried and tested to produce results, infiltrate diverse marketplaces and contribute to long-term b2b partnerships. But long before the program is designed and incentives are offered, vendors need to recruit companies with the competence, determination, and resources to earn your reward.

  2. How To Hire Your First Sales Rep … Profitably! 9/27/2016

    At some point in the growth of all MSPs, IT consultants, VARs, and/or software salesforces, the need to hire the first salesperson becomes apparent. Typically, this is stimulated by one of several factors. By Gil Cargill, Sales Acceleration Coach

  3. Do You Know Your Customer's Internal Trigger? 8/3/2016

    Using the Hook Model, you can create customer habits which could lead to supercharged growth, higher customer lifetime value, and increased defensibility against competitors who prey on your customers.

  4. Appropriate Person Prospecting 7/18/2016

    Recently, one of my client’s salespeople told me he was having no luck cold-calling. By Gil Cargill, Sales Acceleration Coach

  5. Channel Partners Chasing Profitability Due To Lack Of Product Support 7/14/2016

    Cloud sales have skyrocketed in recent years, but if the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry expects to hit Forbes’ projected $67 billion by 2018, someone needs to address a very significant user abandonment problem. By Dave Hauser, General Manager, Cloud and Managed Services, PlumChoice

  6. 10 Ways To Create And Retain Engagement With Process Improvement 7/13/2016

    Is your business struggling to get staff involved in process improvement initiatives? If so, you can take solace in knowing you’re not alone. By Ivan Seselj, CEO, Promapp

  7. Uncovering Business Insights Through Cognitive Search 6/23/2016

    Big Data. It’s among the most pressing challenges — and opportunities — for today’s solution providers. Enterprise data, be it structured in databases and enterprise applications or unstructured textual data from documents (including contracts, letters, emails, newsfeeds, websites, and more) or videos and images, contains a wealth of content that, if searched and analyzed with cognitive intelligence, can deliver valuable insights for the customers you serve.

  8. Unique, Original Ways To Provide Value To Your Customers 5/25/2016

    Too often while walking a trade show floor, we’re caught up in the technology “price race to the bottom” — who has more megapixels, who can integrate with more partners, or who can manage the most access points. But in the race to be the best, many manufacturers can get caught up in the competition and forget about the main component in creating a successful business: customers. True service is rooted in the notion that organizations must provide significant value to customers in a number of ways.

  9. Why Data Is The Glue That Connects Sales And Marketing 5/2/2016

    Sales and marketing have become the epicenter of innovation for some of the world’s top enterprises. While many customers have identified methods to bridge the gap between sales and marketing tech, not everyone is pleased with the outcome. The result of these disjointed efforts is a new development in sales and marketing tech — the reliance on data to connect the two functions. Early indications show sales and marketing departments in many organizations are on board with this shift and are doubling down on data in 2016.

  10. Why It's Okay For CIOs To Make Decisions Based On Feelings 4/25/2016

    One of life’s most hilariously, ironic aspects is that, wherever you go, you’ll notice personal exceptionalism is by far the most ordinary expression of human behavior. If you understand that concept to be true, then the self-assessment data gathered by the well-known leadership and management coach, Mark Goldsmith won’t surprise you either. By Ariel Amster, Qubole