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…

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Why it’s so hard for business owners to diagnose sales problems

a couple busy diagnose sales problems

Most small business owners know something’s not working in their sales — they just can’t pinpoint what. When you’re deep in the day-to-day, it’s hard to see clearly. This guide walks through how to diagnose sales problems in your small business, why more activity rarely fixes them, and the simple diagnostic approaches that actually move the needle.

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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…

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Tech sales as the Growth Engine

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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…

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