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What Does Your Customer Want?
A great read in INC magazine. What does your customer want? "The reason that they're turning to you and your firm is that they're stuck and need your help. Therefore, you must be able to bring something new to the...
Selling Direct is Different Than Channel Sales
I make this statement often: Selling Direct is Different Than Selling via The Channel. You would think it was obvious, but it is not.When a company sells direct, the messaging is aimed at the end user. The sales channel is...
Who is Responsible for Sales?
I was once in a meeting where the engineering department was screaming that the sales team sucked. (Not a fun meeting.) But it does bring to light the question, Who is Responsible for Sales? Everyone is responsible for sales. Every...
The UC Space Right Now
I was chatting with another industry blogger recently. We were discussing how there are a lot of VoIP Providers out there. I estimate it at over a thousand. However, I don't see the Hosted PBX space making huge strides. Before...
It's All About the Customer
This is an ITEXPO banner from Interactive Intelligence. Never forget that it is all about the customer. It isn't about you or features or the technology or the gear. It is about the outcome for the customer. Focus on that....
Monday Motivation
In case you needed some ways to get motivated on this Monday after the time change....
Sales is Tough!
Have you ever been in a meeting where all departments think that sales department is letting them down? That they are all doing their fair share but sales isn't selling enough?People, I have news for you: Sales is Tough! And...
Is Cold Calling Dead?
"When was the last time someone cold called you at work and actually got you interested in doing business with them?" Here's the big problem with that question: people don't buy the way you buy!" "B2B marketers reported cold calling...
VoIP in 2013
It's January and people are still making predictions about 2013. Dave Michels wrote a nice piece about the history of Level3's 3Tone service, which I was pretty familiar with due to four of my clients rushing into the void to...
Cloudy Math
There is a lot of talk about the big money that Agents and VAR's can make if they just switch over to sell Managed Services and Cloud Services. Here are some facts about cloud.M5 had the highest ARPU (average invoice...
What You Can Learn From Romney's Campaign
This isn't a political rant. I have been reading many of the summaries of why Romney lost his presidential bid. Channelnomics and ARS examined the IT spending of both campaigns and found that Romney bought from Best Buy's mindShift (an...
All This Black Friday Talk
All this Black Friday talk is not going to help the retailers. The early Black Friday buzz and "leaks" are only signaling that retailers are hurting. These current actions by retailers are not going to help the bottom line. Pricing...
An Agent's take on Level3
"Telecom is no stranger to change." Moreso today than ever, huh? Yesterday, Chris Palermo of GCN, a telecom brokerage firm, was on a panel with Level3 discussing the Global Crossing-Level3 integration at Microcorp's One-on-One event.Palermo gave some advice to agents...
Casting a Wide Net
When I read that VZ and Sprint signed of to offer Office 365, I thought, "More me-too for this industry." Then I read further down where 42,000 Microsoft partners are also going to be reselling Office 365 and I about...
Flex Some New Muscles
I woke up this morning and my hamstrings were sore from walking all over New York City and the MOMA yesterday. I thought I was in good shape. It turns out that I wasn't used to walking that much on...
Can You Beat the iPad?
As tablet after tablet fail to make it - I am talking to you HP, Blackberry Playbook, Dell Streak, MOTO Xoom, Asus and even Creative - does it make it even harder for another one to launch?We have three new...
8.5 Things the Olympics Taught Me About Sales
Do you want to be a world class sales professional? I do.Do you want to win gold? I like ink and checks.Here's how to be like an Olympian.First, Set Goals. They don't get to the Olympics without Desiring it with...
You Can't Win on Price
Another call today about a cable company stealing the deal because they are giving away the network. You can not compete on price!The RBOC's have ceded the sub-$500 wireline market to the cablecos. VZ wants to clip the copper, which...
Get Off the Agents' Back
These were my thoughts on the 2011 CPZ that I was a panelist on. These are my thoughts as a reaction to the latest CPZ. Surprisingly, not everyone read my post about how the whole telecom eco-system is shifting. Agents,...
What About Selling Cloud?
At The CPZ, the rest of the panel were cloud guys (VAR's and Hosted UC). This is a snippet of the conversation where the panel is talking about how transactional telecom sales are dead, long live the Cloud! People deemed...
The Trouble with UC Sales
In a recent study, titled IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Unified Communications Voice Infrastructure 2011-2012 Vendor Analysis, IDC analyst Rich Costell wrote that “Customers still struggle to justify the deployment of UC and calculate its overall ROI.” The conclusion: “educating potential customers...
Sales is Not Marketing
I saw this topic at a startup conference: “Sales for Start-ups How to Market Like a Rock Star!” If you ever see that topic, RUN!Sales is NOT Marketing. They are different.Laura Lake explains, “Marketing is everything that you do to...
Conferencing is on the Rise?
Analysts often talk about predictions and trends in the marketplace. It seems except for voice, everything is on the rise: Cloud, VoIP, SAAS, mobile, social media and, yes, even conferencing. What is driving conferencing?The economy has something to do with...
CLEC Frustration Part II
One reason that the ILEC’s have been frustrated with CLEC’s and spend so much effort frustrating their orders is due to the Lack of Value that the CLEC’s — in general — bring to the market place.Resellers, Rebillers, switchless, UNE-P,...
Sales Stalking
With the loss of any privacy today online, cyber stalking for prospecting is easier. I know it sounds sinister, but the best way to sell is to know your prospect. Know if they NEED your service. Know if they can...
