27
2014
How Much does Poor or Inconsistent Sales Messaging Affect Your Business?
I was inspired by one of Tamara Schenk’s latest articles called “The Inability To Communicate Value Messages – Biggest Inhibitor To Sales Success 2014” – http://blog.tamaraschenk.com/?p=1622. Tamara is one of the Research Directors for Miller Heiman, and in her article she states that over the past three years Miller Heiman Research Institute has asked the question: “What are the biggest inhibitors to sales success?” and…
24
2014
Sales Coaches Need Coaching Too
A good friend of mine, Ms. Tamara Schenk, who is with Miller Heiman in Frankfurt, Germany, recently blogged about “Why Frontline Sales Managers Need Enablement”: http://blog.tamaraschenk.com/?p=1208. In her blog Tamara mentions that “Many newly appointed frontline sales managers are thrown into the new role with little-to-no training or coaching.” She went on to write that “The resulting consequence is an onboarding time between one and…
27
2012
Why there is a Sales & Marketing Chiasm
In my last blog post “Why Sales throws Marketing under the bus (and how you can avoid the fatalities)” it is clear that we struck a nerve that has a profound effect on a number of organizations. I got some great comments and feedback from a lot of you on your personal experiences in this area. So I wanted to delve a little deeper and…