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Selling management consulting is a relationship business. Without bilateral, trusting relationships there will be no engagements. Thus, before we move to the details of a potential consulting engagement, there are some rituals that must be completed.
I now realized the advantage I had in proposal writing. It was never about me. It was always about the customers. What does the customer need and how do we deliver that, mitigating the risk of failure? How can we summarize this in the briefest way possible?
The story about PLATO is not only interesting, but it will also teach you a lesson or two. It explains the fate of great ideas that are not in sync with the times and how large, well-established companies can make bigger mistakes than they can afford.
The book is a “must read” for all business development, marketing, sales and other revenue generation professionals in the information technology industry.
Improving something that already exists by making it easier to use, less expensive, faster to implement or adding some other convenience features is a viable way to start a business.
When a customer implemented an ERP solution from Navision, only ten per cent went for licenses. Ninety per cent of the value was created by and remained with the dealers.
All companies have all kinds of issues all the time. The perfectly running company doesn’t exist.
Business development, marketing and sales are business processes just like R&D, G&A, manufacturing and logistics.
In the video, I discuss the main difference between the direct and the indirect go-to-market approach and how you can make the indirect approach work in your favour. This is the second video in the Building Successful Partner Channels series of five videos that TBK Consult have made for the Microsoft Smart Partner Marketing portal. Using a channel of…
In the video, I discuss the process for channel partner recruitment from early stage to late stage.