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How do Indian CEOs look at Social Selling?

3 key takeaways on how Indian CEOs look at Social Selling from my workshop “CEOs: Get Social” 1. CEOs need to address many stakeholders beyond the customer(s); employees, media, extended community, potential employees, peers & competition – & want to do that through Social Media. 2. A CEO can’t just afford to be a Superstar…
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Are you a Sales leader asking your team to turn to LinkedIn to generate pipeline?

Are you a Sales leader asking your team to turn to LinkedIn to generate pipeline- read this! In the early days of Amazon, once a wrong promotional email went to a prospect & the customer complained. Jeff Bezos wasn’t happy and is believed to have asked “what do we lose by stopping sending these emails?”…
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Should you sell to the highest decision maker you can reach out to?

In today’s SAAS world it is so easy to yank out a product that doesn’t work or make user’s life easy. Selling too high in the hope that bosses override users’ choice may result in a sales but will quickly lead to the eventual abandonment of your product. There are always three parties in a…
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Inspiration for a Salesperson

Are you a salesperson looking for some inspiration to make the dreaded prospect calls? Here is a true story for you… Many years back a 23-year-old joined a Canadian bank as a rookie salesperson. He began each morning with two jars on his desk. One was filled with 120 paper clips. The other was empty.…
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How to get decision makers to come to your event:

There is a joke in Tech & Marketing circles about the proliferation of IT events. A Mumbai based CIO / IT Director/ Senior Manager can have his three times daily bread (breakfast, lunch, & dinner) taken care of 6 days of the week 250 days in a year – if s/he keeps attending IT vendor…
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