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Today’s podcast is an interview with Sanjay Mehta, Joint CEO of Mirum India. The digital space in India represents over 300 million connected citizens and 100 million active social media accounts. In 2012 when I was in India speaking at the World Brand Congress I met Sanjay Mehta who at the time wa Read More

Jim is one of my favourite social selling thought leaders and long time friends in the business – although we have yet to meet in person! I had an opportunity to read Jim’s new book “Not Taught – What It Takes to be Successful in the 21st Century that Nobody’s Teaching You” and asked him to be on t Read More

Today’s blog post and podcast is about the 9 C’s of Social Sales Success. Their are many attributes, attitudes and strategies required to effectively harness the power of online social networks for sales and relationship building. I have taken them and broken them down under 9 core areas that start Read More

Today’s podcast (download here) is focused on why Influencer Engagement programs are vital and how to run one effectively in the B2B sales and marketing space.

Following is brief abridged version of what I cover in the podcast:

In a recent study (by Augure) of over 600 B2B marketing professi Read More

Today’s sales funnel and sales process has changed. Sales for many of us is now more about getting buy-in versus pitching our wares. This 15 minute sales and social selling podcast introduces the new sales funnel “The 5 Stages of Consent” and also dives into how content creation is not enough to ge Read More

In order to win in today’s sales environment you need to stay ahead of your competitors and in-sync with your customers. Sales skills, training and strategy play a huge role in your success BUT for most people being tied up in a classroom or conference is too time consuming.

My goal was to make Read More

Stephen Jagger and I sat down and penned these rules in 2008 when we were writing Sociable! – the tools have since evolved but the rules are even more relevant today then they were back then. We started with 7 rules and recently I added two more which I will share with you today. Before reading the Read More

Social selling and social media use by salespeople is a hot topic. Many people who use Twitter and Facebook shun their use for sales, a lot of this can be attributed to poor practices and lack of skill on the behalf of motivated yet often tactless salespeople. I asked the experts what they think th Read More

This is a great post on intuition by Little Woo particularly how it visits us in different forms. Have you ever ignored your intuition and then paid for it later? What are you doing to be more in touch with following it? [There's a great one page "cheat sheet" on intuition at the bottom of the post Read More

A big thanks to the BMO Financial Group for inviting me to speak at your business development conference. LinkedIn as I mentioned is not a strategy, it’s a great tool IF you have the right processes and disciplines in place.

The key components of a great LinkedIn in strategy includes:

Having Read More