10 Words not to use in marketing and sales
PR Guru Adam Schiff studied hundreds of thousands of websites with the purpose of discovering their unique value proposition. His conclusion was that buzzwords do not improve marketing, they worsen it. Prospects get negatively triggered by buzz words and view the...
Improving Speed to Trust
Most would agree that a prospect who knows, likes, and trusts you is more likely to purchase. However, trust-building can be slow and gum-up your sales cycle. What if there was a way to dissect the components of “trust” and enable faster trust-building?...
Startup Sales Stack
Check out this awesome deck on The Startup Sales Stack. Startup Sales Stack Report 2017 from Nic PoulosRecent Posts
Phantom costs could be killing your profits
I love a good bargain as much as the next person, but I learned a valuable lesson about phantom costs. That is, those costs that don’t show up on your income statement but drain profits. Everyone has heard the saying “good things are cheap, and she things are good,” however, we tend to forget it... Read more →
What is the upside to having a Proven Repeatable Sales Process?
A few years back, I was hired by a manufacturing company who was doing 7-8 million dollars in sales per years. They had been in business about 20 years and had experienced a few growth spurts, but were now in a stagnant position the past few years They were struggling to hit the next level. ... Read more →