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PowerViews with Jim Dickie: Customer-centric is Key

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Many elements must come together to create quality leads, and among these should be departmental transparency and communication. Better communication and transparency. The metrics would make transparent what type of leads are going to sales and whether or not they''re being accepted by the sales team as a sales lead.

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We're entering the era of accountability in sales and marketing

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In both camps there's a transparency that hasn't always been present, characterized by a realistic measure of revenue impact of leads--and realistic forecasts. An accountable sales organization is accountable for follow-up activity. These sales professionals accept responsibility for working all leads to the finish, win or lose.

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What it Takes to be a Sales & Marketing Thought Leader [PowerViews LIVE Highlights]

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Be transparent. You can’t be a thought leader unless you’re giving away your content. Don’t be afraid to fail. Thought leaders leverage failure and make it work to their advantage. Share the good, bad and the ugly! Those who only share the good are perceived as untrustworthy. Change the perception of HOW we market and communicate.

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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

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Engagement and transparency over official posturing. Small experiments, testing and data, intimate customer tribes, engagement and transparency? We’re able to be transparent with our clients because we have data to prove our approach works. Here’s Scott’s Agile Marketing Manifesto: Many small experiments over a few large bets.

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Top Three Takeaways from Sales 2.0 – San Francisco #S20C

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As a leader: be transparent, real, human and let go (don’t control). There is not enough room here for me to document the full page of notes I took during Jeffrey Hayzlett’s presentation, but I can tell you that it was one funny, inspirational and educational experience that was worth the price of the whole trip.

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PowerViews with Peter Bourke: Sell Less, Win More

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Peter also mentions Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Patrick Lencioni, which says service providers should be transparent and vulnerable with clients. “If If I just plug in the technology, I’ll win a lot more deals — but the reality is it doesn’t work.”.

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What is Value Selling and How to Generate Leads in Companies that Buy Value

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In this LinkedIn article, “Selling in 2018: The Survival of the Fittest,” Jonathan Farrington wrote the following: “It is the ability to earn trust and connect on the basis of transparency, vulnerability and genuine concern in working with customers to bring value that will help them grow their business.".