What is Value-based selling?

value-based selling the shop window

You’ll probably have a very accurate idea about what your business costs you. The bricks and mortar (or your desk, laptop, printer and supply of chocolate Hob Nobs) Your people – either on your payroll or as associates or suppliers. Your manufacturing, purchasing or tech development costs. What you spend on marketing your business and…

Read More

Time to Value: Why clients question the value you deliver. And how to fix it

Time to value, a clock made of blocks

You delivered great work. So why is your value still being questioned? For many B2B service businesses, this is where things start to unravel. The project lands, the work was delivered, and the client was satisfied. But a few months later, the relationship feels fragile. Procurement starts asking harder questions. A competitor appears with a…

Read More

Tech sales as the Growth Engine

sales growth

Sales and revenue are the engine of growth. The product roadmap is the destination. What happens when tech businesses apply more sophistication to the destination than to the engine that funds it? Discovery: the comfortable lie in tech sales Tech sales’ favourite illusion: “We’ve done Discovery.” Most tech sales teams will tell you they’re good…

Read More

The fragility of trust in hybrid teams — and the promises leaders break

Trust written in scrabble letters

Leading and building trust in a hybrid team is a bit like trying to toast marshmallows over a candle while someone keeps opening a window. You’re expected to conjure warmth and cohesion while nobody’s actually huddled round the flames — they’re scattered in kitchens and spare rooms, squinting at their own screens, trying to picture…

Read More