We’ve just entered the 2020s, and for the last two months, we’ve been fielding calls from companies planning their 2020 kickoffs and sales training. As we dove into their existing sales processes and methodologies, we’ve found that many of these processes and methodologies have been acquired from third-party sales training companies like Sandler, Corporate Visions, … Continue reading “You Don’t Have A Prospecting Methodology. Now What?”

At Sales For Life over the last couple of months, we’ve been analyzing our content marketing performance, and of course our content marketing spend. Looking back historically, only a few years ago in 2017, we had a $1 million per year spend in our marketing department, and for lead generation. Our content marketing was truly … Continue reading “The 2020s: The Age of The IP (Intellectual Property) Influencer”

When I started as partner at Sales For Life in 2012, I’ll be honest – I didn’t know much about content marketing. I came from the traditional sales world (translation: cold calling), and had just started experimenting with social selling via LinkedIn and Twitter. In short, the idea of content creation was pretty foreign to … Continue reading “Welcome to 2020: Content Marketing as You Know It is Dead”

I recently read an excellent book called The Excellence Dividend by Tom Peters—an ex-McKinsey consultant whose consulting practice now focuses on customer experience and customer excellence. In his book, Peters talks about the importance of cross-functional alignment. And I whole-heartedly agree!