Can a sales force automation tool help a company sell more?

May 21, 2010 No comments yet

Let’s face it sales force automation tools have been around for over 25 years now.  If asked how they are used most companies would reply they are a repository of all our intellectual property of business contacts, activities and customer information.   No question the industry has helped companies retain the knowledge base of contacts and [...]



Culture of Accountability

March 10, 2010 No comments yet

Have you ever wondered why some sales teams blow their numbers out consistently quarter over quarter, year over year?  In a discussion with a friend of mine we both agreed that the most successful sales teams we had encountered always had a culture of accountability.  It usually started at the top and worked its way [...]



Prospecting Velocity™

August 10, 2009 No comments yet

Most sales managers know that if they have 100 deals in the pipeline at the beginning of the quarter how many will close and how long it will take to work a prospect from the earliest stages of the sales pipeline through to closure. Unfortunately, very, very few sales people or sales managers have any [...]



The need for professional persistence

July 25, 2009 No comments yet

9 years ago when I was the VP of Sales for Aprimo, Merrill Lynch was one of the accounts we were targeting as a potential customer. Aprimo sells an enterprise marketing automation solution and at that time there was not much awareness of the EMA, EMM or MRM space so there was a [...]