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How to be a salesperson in an AI future
As AI picks up increasing parts of the sales person’s role - what does it take to be a human sales person?
In this article I look at the importance of business acumen, spatial awareness and project management in delivering value to your customers in their buying process.
ICONIQ Growth Report: State of Go-To-Market in 2024
ICONIQ Capital just published their 2024 State of Go-to-Market report with analysis from 150 B2B SaaS companies. I highlight ARR Growth, Net Dollar Retention, AE Quota Attainment and Funnel Metrics in this summary and link to the original report.
8 trade show engagement ideas that drive conversion
Remove the awkward post event follow-up by creating multi-step engagements while your buyers are on the booth.
Here are 8 examples including professional headshots and caricaturists!
Treat outreach like crazy golf
SDRs and AEs can improve their success by stopping aiming directly at the pin, and instead thinking about the people around their target buyer that are trusted and will provide valuable endorsements.
Outreach Bullseye Template
The outreach bullseye template helps SDRs and AEs to evaluate and prioritise possible routes to prospect into their target accounts.
Executive ownership of your AI strategy
AI usecases appear across your organisation and this graphic will help you think through which of your senior executives are aligned to the most game-changing opportunities you have in front of you.
How to embed AI in your company - Holiday Extras
At the recent AI Summit the team from Holiday Extras won AI Implementor of the Year and walked us through their change management process. Here are the five problems they faced and how they approached them.
7 takeaways from the AI Summit London
AI Summit London featured speakers from Barclays, HSBC, Ocado, NVIDIA, OpenAI and from governments and regulators.
AI presents an opportunity for companies to completely reinvent themselves - here are my key takeaways from the event.
Inbound, outbound and now inbound-led outbound?
Its too easy to fall into an internally-focused view of our prospecting channels. Inbound, outbound, nearbound, inbound-led outbound….
If we put our customer at the centre of the process we look at things in a very different way and start to align our efforts.
How to build and use B2B buyer personas
Companies don’t buy products, people do - and having a deep understanding of the world of each of the buyer personas that buy, use or support your product is the first step in designing personalised value propositions and messaging for them.
In this article you’ll get find a template to use as well as guidance on how RevOpsCharlieGPT can help you!
ICP Summary Template from ICONIQ
Ensuring your go-to-market teams are clear on your definition of what makes an ideal customer (and what makes a very poor customer) is the foundation of a clean pipeline, higher close rates, and expansion and renewal opportunities.
Here’s a simple table to map out your ideal customer profile.
7 Powers - Hamilton Helmer - Book Summary
Hamilton Helmer introduces the seven powers that allow companies to drive sustainable differentiated returns in comparison to their peers. In this article I summarise the seven powers and share Hamilton’s recommendation on which powers to focus on.
AI Opportunities for Chief Revenue Officers
The revenue function is ripe for disruption and the CROs that take a longer term view will set their companies up for success in the new world.
In this article we walk through the four quadrants of Gartner’s AI Opportunity Radar looking at use cases that can provide game-changing returns.
Game Changing AI Use Cases for Go-To-Market
AI is a top priority for CEOs as they seek to grow revenues, increase margins and minimise risks.
Learn how Gartner guides their clients through the AI Opportunity Radar and Use Case Prisms to find and prioritise high value AI use cases.
Sales Plays - translating customer campaigns for sellers
Before you push your new customer campaign out to sellers as a sales play, you need to translate it for the new audience - your SDRs and AEs. In this post I’ll walk you through my approach.
Interview with Stephen Diorio - author of “Revenue Operations”
Stephen Diorio is the co-author of “Revenue Operations” and in this video explores the Revenue Management System and Revenue Operating System, along with the 50 levers of growth that help drive sustainable scalable businesses forward.
70 questions for a VP of Revenue Operations candidate to ask in an interview
Take control of your VP of Revenue Operations interview with this set of questions.
They’ll help you understand if this is the right company for you, as well as demonstrating that you know your subject and can hit the ground running.
What should be in the first 90 day plan for a VP of Revenue Operations?
The VP of Revenue Operations is fastest growing role in the US, and yet there is no plan to follow as you start your new job.
This 30,60,90 day template will help inspire and focus your thinking as you build your plan.
Give your SDRs a grand slam offer to give to buyers
What is the value that your SDRs are taking out to their prospects in their outreach? A webinar or product datasheet is not a valuable offer.
In this article we’ll look at what makes a valuable offer and how to arm your SDRs with something that buyers would feel stupid to say no to.
Gartner 2024 Global Software Buying Trends
Gartner’s 2024 Software Buying Trends provides valuable insight to revenue leaders as you plan your go to market strategy. Understand what buyers look for as they find and buy new software in2024.