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Doug Davidoff

The Missing Persona That’s Damaging Your Sales & Crushing Your Margins

A client of ours, who provides a uniquely designed sales performance improvement program design for a unique niche, was involved in a large, complex sale with a major company in their market. Traditional sales theory would lead to a focus on one of two roles/personas at the company: The executive in charge of sales revenue, or The executive in charge of training. My client won the sale, and in the debrief we confirmed something very few people would have expected. While the client did a...

5 Strategies to Increase Sales Rep Productivity By a Third (or More)

This post originally appeared on HubSpot's Sales Blog. For more than 30 years (yikes!), I’ve been...

2018 In Review: 7 Initiatives That Worked & 3 That Didn’t

A hat tip to Databox’s head of marketing John Bonini for this post. I’ll admit it. Just as I was...

The Three Horizons: An Approach for SMB's to Transform Innovation Into A Competitive Advantage

The following is an excerpt from The Secret to Strong Revenue Growth, Part 2 What grade would you...

The Real Buyer's Journey, Part 2: Manufacturing Revenue

Welcome to part two of our series on understanding the real buyer’s journey. In the first session,...

Understanding The Real Buyer's Journey

Today I want to talk to you about a topic that's crucially important to your customer acquisition,...

4 Rules to Succeed With Conversational Marketing

I often caution peers of mine to be careful about the echo chamber in which we often find...

The Lie That Digital & Inbound Marketing Keeps Telling

I remember the datapoint that made me take notice of (at the time) this new thing called “inbound...

5 Strategies to Reverse Your Sales Productivity Problem

This post originally appeared on HubSpot's Sales Blog. For more than 30 years (yikes!), I’ve been...

5 Rules to Effective Breakup Emails

If you’re in sales, there are two things you can count on: You’re going to rely on email as a core...