In a recent conversation I had with Mark Wayland, he mentioned that in his 30 years of sales coaching, the best meetings are always the ones where the client is sitting next to you and you’re both sketching on a piece of paper together. That is what the iPad and other tablets can do, but […]
There are multiple stakeholders who need to get value from your CRM system. First, management needs visibility into the sales pipeline. Next, sales teams need to know how close their buyer is to making a purchase, and what they can do to get prospects to the finish line. Third, marketing needs a way to understand […]
People talk about “getting on a new CRM” to solve the problem of disorganized or dysfunctional sales efforts. There is a common lack of awareness that when you’re buying a Customer Relationship Management tool, you’re usually not buying a sales process or methodology along with it. I would argue that’s the primary reason CRM implementations […]
I had a conversation with Craig Nelson of the Sales Enablement Group because I wanted to get a clearer picture about what type of organizations were practicing sales enablement. I opened up the conversation to the LinkedIn community a few weeks back and got some very interesting perspectives. Here’s the link to the conversation on LinkedIn. Here are […]
I recently had the opportunity to interview Craig Nelson of Sales Enablement Group. I asked him why the trend of sales enablement has really taken off in the past few years. Why sales enablement? Why now? I also opened the conversation up to the wider LinkedIn community and there are some really great opinions came […]
