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The Budget Squeeze - How to Navigate in Challenging Economic Climates

You might have been told that due to budget constraints, you can’t get your deal over the line – or perhaps you are being...

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Combating The False Hopes of Next Year’s Budget

“Our customer is DEFINITELY going to assign budget and buy next year”

 We hear this relayed to us time and again...

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Build Your Defences - How to Enter Sales Negotiations on the Front Foot

‘Let’s start contracts’ is often music to a salesperson’s ears as they envisage their long campaign to close a...

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Perpetual Slip-pers - Why Do Some Deals Never Seem To Close?

A new financial year. New pipeline.

Or are there some hangovers from the Christmas period which are still loitering around?

Maybe even...

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Identified Pain Is About Customer Outcomes

We live in a world where we are being constantly sold to, through many channels. Cutting through the noise to reach new customers can be...

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Not all Decision Criteria are Created Equally

Everyone has criteria when it comes to buying something. When it’s just an individual purchase, these are relatively simple. When...

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Written & Unwritten Rules – Focusing on Decision Process

Forecast slippage is a regular feature of most sales organisations. However, by better understanding our customer’s decision...

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Enablement Excellence - The Importance of Embedding

A company that never needs to make any adjustments to their sales organisation is as rare as the proverbial hen’s tooth. 

Over...

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Avoid The Long Grass With The Economic Buyer

You have done the hard work; you’ve identified a significant pain point that your solution can solve, you have qualified this over...

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Beware Labelling Champions

“Strong”

“Powerful”

“Weak”

“Big”… champions. 

Beware them all!

Humans need...

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M Is for Metrics: Sharing Metrics Will Accelerate Growth

Although a lot of the sales process is about fostering relationships and building your champion within the business, Metrics, or numbers,...

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The Enablement Advantage

The war for talent and the recent phenomenon of ‘The Great Resignation’ is driving all companies to reconsider their talent...

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Meetings: A Fair Exchange of Value

We all have a lot of meeting requests. 

We want to meet customers, mentors, connections – however the diary seems constantly...

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Customers - Your Business Everest

We’ve discussed the importance of romancing employees long after the interview and offer stage. It’s not just about enticing...

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16 Months Later: Return of the Road Warrior

For 25 years, I have worked out of my handbag. This stopped 16 months ago.

In preparation for the return of Ping Identians to our office...

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