Category: Sales

“Which company should you try to sell to? “

When we were training our internal Sales and Telemarketing teams in selling large ticket ERP, we had a joke: 1. Target companies that are doing quite well – they have the cash flow to afford your solution. 2. Target companies that are doing very badly – their management will need to do something drastic to…
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Can Marketing make Sales Irrelevant?

Peter Drucker famously said, ‘The art of marketing is to know the customer so well that the product/service fits him & sells itself.’ In B2C, ‘perfect’ marketing indeed makes the job of sales easier, simple and more non-strategic. If you look at the way Kia Seltos and MG Hector have been priced and positioned in…
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How Autodesk used a Sales Channel to achieve success

Using a sales channel or resellers for selling a SAAS can prove to be quite cumbersome. We live in the golden age of the Internet, which allows you to directly reach your customers without having to use a channel. Paired with a customer success team to renew, this is a recipe for success. Thus, why…
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How do you deal with decreasing number of leads for Sales today?

What is the middle ground of the intense discussions between CMOs and VPs of Sales on the number of leads that Marketing should give Sales? Face it – decreasing number of well qualified leads is a prevailing trend across countries, companies and industries. You will have less leads today than you had 3 years back…
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Time for a new Indian Sales culture – from Bangalore?

Sales is the oldest (or second oldest?) profession known to humans. Sales process & the ecosystem of sales – sales culture – the way of doing sales – had been locally developed in the past. And now we borrow a lot from the centre of the business world – the United States of America.It need…
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