Month: July 2019

Do You Know Who I Am?

Every day my inbox fills up with emails from people I don’t know. They all want my attention and I get the impression that my email address sits on some gigantic database that churns out a constant stream of badly written sales messages. Interestingly they all have the same theme, which is mainly…let me tell …

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Account Based Marketing

Account Based Marketing (ABM), also known as key account marketing, is a strategic approach to business marketing in which an organization considers and communicates with an individual prospect or customer accounts as markets of one. The approach has been around a few years but with advances in technology coupled with changes in buyer behaviour, we’re …

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Touch Your Own Base!

Thanks to research from Amba Hotels for the UK’s top ten most hated pieces of business jargon (take note!): 1. Touch base offline Meaning: Meet separately after a group meetin 2. Blue sky thinking Meaning: Unrealistic thinking without influence 3. Punch a puppy Meaning: Act in a detestable way for business benefit 4. Thought shower Meaning: …

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Why Social Selling?

The world of selling has changed.  Customers are more selective now.  They only want to work with people they can trust and in networks that they can trust.  The availability of information on the internet means that customers can do a lot more research in advance of meeting sales people.  Recent research by the Corporate …

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