Creating and Managing the Sales Team Pipeline

A Process to Improve Sales Forecasting and Strategic Sales Coaching What do we need to do to make sales forecasting more accurate? This is one of the most common and urgent questions asked by senior sales leaders. In theory, the answer is rather simple; but in...

Five Assumptions that Cause New Product Launches to Fail

It’s a story that has played out time and time again. A company announces a new product. It is innovative, well positioned and competitively superior. Senior management has high expectations for the new product and has established big revenue targets....

A New Way to Drive Improved Business Results

Have you ever heard the term “Death by PowerPoint?” If you’ve done any sales training or been around the participants of training over the last 10 years, then you’ve probably heard this term. “Death by PowerPoint” is a term used by far too many...

The Good the Bad and the Ugly: Knowing the Competition

Written by Steve Gielda, Principal – Ignite Selling Books on strategy extol the virtues of knowing your competition or your enemy. From The Art of War to the Book of Five Rings to more contemporary volumes, the advice has now become commonplace. Know your competition....