Connectors, Mavens and Sales(person)
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The book Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell influenced my thinking a lot. I read the book as soon as it came off...
View ArticleManaging the Sales Process
I heard once that Sales is not Rocket Science but Harder! I cannot agree more. The actual closing of a sale is an art but that is never the real challenge, the real challenge is building a discipline...
View ArticleTransitions in a Startup
Seth Levin of the Foundry Group has a very good post on the transition of a startup from the product focused company to a sales and marketing focused company. I can truly relate to this, I have been...
View ArticleScrum for Sales
I had an interesting conversation with Gudjon Mar Gudjonsson the founder and CEO of OZ. He asked a very good questions, he has been trying to find a SCRUM like methodology for Sales and has not been...
View ArticleHow to sell anything
Keep your mouth shut and listen to your customer. I mean not all the time, but focus more on asking questions about their problems and how they solve it right now. Your job is not to ask them to solve...
View ArticleTraction trumps everything
Traction trumps everything, there is nothing else. I don’t care what anyone says. So what is this traction thing? well, it is different for different teams. Getting to traction is not a function of...
View ArticleAdvertising works but needs major fixing
I have been writing about my fixation on learning about food and self healing of the body. I also mentioned that my dad passed away due to Cardiovascular Disease, so when I saw an article title “Foods...
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