Roundtable briefing: How to focus on the best sales opportunities

Understanding which sales opportunities to pursue, and which to drop, is a key skill for everyone in business-to-business selling, but particularly for managers who want to make sure their teams’ efforts are focused and effective. In a recent roundtable session chaired by Bob Apollo, founder of Inflexion-Point Strategy Partners, we were pleased to hear from … Read more

Salespeople, it’s time to develop your personal brand

As salespeople, we expect our company to drive product and sales awareness for us. Justifiably so, we’re the salespeople. Our job isn’t to attract prospects but to close them. Marketing does the attraction; they do the branding; they create product and company awareness, and sales closes the deal. This functional contract has been the agreed-upon … Read more