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Stop Closing & Start Selling

I honestly can’t believe I’m writing about this topic again. There was a period (probably about 3 - 5 years) where I thought selling organizations had finally evolved and understood that closing is an overvalued, overfocused and overhyped part of the sales/buying process. To be clear, if you think you have a closing problem, then I’m here to affirmatively and conclusively tell you that closing is never the problem (hell, it’s rarely even “a” problem). The problem just manifests itself at that...

7 Ways Sales Managers Kill Sales

I have tremendous respect and empathy for sales managers. Frankly, I can’t think of a job that is...

The 10 Worst Vanity Metrics Every Marketer Uses

What you measure gets done...so be very careful about what you measure. The story of Moneyball is a...

The 5 Factors that Must be Considered Before Strategy/Tactics are Determined

It’s a dangerous time in the world of sales and marketing. There’s so much useful information,...

The Biggest (& Common) Mistakes Made with Account Based Marketing

As the chart below (where I compare interest in the term "account based marketing" with "demand...

7 Attributes of an Effective Sales/Marketing Playbook

Playbooks are back! When I first got into professional sales (in the ancient days of DOS),...

The 5 Tools I Use to Keep Me Productive on the Road

I was recently having a conversation with a fellow business owner, friend and past client of mine....

The Only Metric that Matters if You're Looking for Sales Growth

Anyone who knows me, knows I love data and metrics. One of Imagine's core values is "In God We...

Website Not Performing? 4 Ideas to Make it More Effective

Remember life before the Internet? When you had to physically go to the library to research a topic...

The Most Common Mistake that Stalls B2B Sales & Revenue Growth

I will admit that as a student in high school and college, I hated science classes. It really...