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What to say when your CEO asks “What are we doing with AI?”
Every tech vendor is launching an AI element to their product, and your CEO is going to ask you how it will help your revenue engine.
Learn the basics of AI and the two main ways it can help revenue leaders.
First time CRO’s guide to Marketing
Marketing is more than demand gen. If you are going to take marketing under your CRO responsibilities, or partner closely with the CMO, then take time to understand the scope of the function beyond revenue linked activities.
How to reward partner sellers with incentive award cards
Incentive Award Cards are a fantastic way of rewarding and motivating sellers at your partners.
Learn how the program works and how to roll one out in your own business.
Selling a platform - lessons from Lego
When you sell a platform you need to help your customer visualise what is possible.
Lego is a great example from the consumer world - let’s see how they do it.
How to create content your buyers trust
Instead of blindly creating content to hit your SEO keywords, consider the type of content that your buyers want to learn from.
Uncover the content mismatch, the content ladder and how to turn your marketing intern into a corporate journalist.
Reducing the consumption gap with CSMs
The consumption gap develops as the amount of value your product could deliver outstrips the value your customers actually receive.
In this article you’ll see how your CSMs can work to minimise the gap as you release new products.
What is the total cost of an SDR?
Don’t just launch an SDR model because that is what you see other companies doing.
In this post I’ll walk you through the total cost of an SDR and balance that against the value of the leads they’ll add to your pipeline.
7 ways to organise a President’s Club that drives revenue
President’s Clubs can be fantastic drivers of culture and behaviour change, or expensive trips taken for granted.
Here are 7 lessons from my own experiences to help you plan yours.
I’m headed to SaaStr Europa
The biggest non-vendor SaaS event arrives in London on 6th and 7th June and I’m headed there.
Here are the sessions I’m most looking forward to and how to connect with me there.
5 ways to use RepVue as a revenue leader
RepVue has quickly become the trusted source of compensation data for sales reps, and leading companies are using it to position themselves as a preferred employer.
Here’s five steps for a revenue leader to follow to capitalise on this shift.
70 problems keeping Chief Revenue Officers up at night.
Chief Revenue Officers are responsible for the entire revenue engine - and that comes with it a huge list of challenges you need to solve. Here’s an ever growing list of the problems I hear about.
Revenue teams waste the most SaaS licences
Average SaaS adoption is 67%, but in sales that drops to just 48%.
Take a look at more SaaS spending stats from the latest Vertice analysis.
Is this the end of the SDRmy?
SDRs are having fewer quality conversations per day, and AEs at Outreach and Salesloft are struggling to meet quota.
Is this the end of the role of the SDR as companies take control of their buying process?
Deciding between seat-based and usage-based pricing
Choosing the wrong pricing model can kill your business. But its not a simple choice.
In this article I look at common challenges for seat based and usage based pricing models.
5 essential steps to launch your referral partner programme
Referral partners can open up a low/no touch channel of business to help you access customers you couldn’t reach otherwise.
Here’s five steps to help you build out your referral programme.
The Professional Services Revenue Acceleration Flywheel
Professional Services companies have a different terminology to describe the phases of their customer journey.
I use this version of the Revenue Acceleration Flywheel for services firms.
Fill your dark funnel with valuable content
Buyers spend most of their process speaking with peers and analysts away from your website and attribution.
In this article I’ll explain what the dark funnel is, and how you can turn it to your advantage.
Extending the lifespan of your sellers
The average tenure of a B2B SaaS AE is just 27 months. Instead of looking at sellers as expensive cogs that don’t work properly, take a look at the three levers you have to improve these metrics and keep your good sellers for longer.
How we used weekly NPS to reduce churn
We used weekly NPS surveys in a Professional Services business to gather customer sentiment and spot early warning signals of issues. Here’s how we did it, and how you can implement in your own product or services business.
How to create content buyers want
Your company is full of experts that have insights and advice your buyers want. Instead of churning out poor content that doesn’t help buyers, follow this three step process to creating buyer-centric content that moves deals forward.