by Mike Gospe | May 28, 2020 | Customer Success, Home Page
KickStart Alliance is hosting a bi-weekly series of topical 30-minute coffee chats. At each session, we pose a specific topic with a few questions and invite you to weigh in with your peers. This is a great way to gather new insights and practical tools while we all...
by Janet Gregory | Dec 1, 2014 | Marketing
CRM is making sales people dumb. “No, absolutely not, that’s heresy” shouts Salesforce.com, Velocify, SugarCRM and sales management. When sales people act like robots inputting data and taking action without thinking, the answer is YES. Unfortunately, the answer is...
by Janet Gregory | May 22, 2014 | Marketing
Four Reasons to Create a Sales Playbook: Establish a consistent sales approach for repeatable success. Define sales best practices to ensure efficient selling. Align sales process with other customer-facing functions to strengthen customer relationships and long term...
by kickstartall | Apr 15, 2014 | Marketing
I recently completed a sales leadership coaching engagement for a global technology client. The client was keen on developing new approaches for his high performance sales teams, which focused on business led outcomes for their top strategic customers. Given a highly...
by Janet Gregory | Sep 27, 2013 | Marketing
As business grows and evolves, a change of channel sales model is often required. It could be changing the channel strategy from direct to channel *or* from channel to direct *or* establishing a mix. In any change there are seven key considerations that need to be...
