I’m rubbish at DIY, you should be to
I’m really bad at DIY, really bad, actually, I might be being a bit hard on myself. There are only four critical things I’m missing when it comes to DIY: skills, experience, knowledge, and patience. So now when we need some work around the house, instead of even...
41% of the year has melted away
If You Are Working Hard to Achieve Your Goals, You Are Doing It Wrong Last month, I confessed I was not following my own advice. I was focusing on the wrong things and fell behind where I wanted the business to be. I am happy to report we are 41% of the way through...
The team that got you here, won’t get you there
Most of my clients have built a great business and a great team, but recently they’ve noticed things have started to stall. They just aren’t getting the results they need. Much like Marshall Goldsmith’s best-selling book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, which...
Why giving more choices is NOT good for your customer
Throughout my career, working with both large and small companies, there is always one bit of customer research feedback that can lead the business down the wrong path. Customer research will tell you that customers want choice, so this starts you thinking you need...
I have a confession to make: I haven’t been eating my own dog food.
As the calendar ticks over into May, the scary thing is we’re already a third of the way through this year. So the big questions are: Where are you at with your business goals and your growth goals? Are you at least a third of the way through? When I’m asking...
Are you having the right conversation with the wrong person?
Typically there are three key roles within a business when it comes to purchasing decisions.
Hit your FY21 Growth Goals with our free One Page Growth Template
I got a bit of a shock earlier this week when one of my clients reminded me to remind them that we were 16% through the year. So the question is, are we 16% through our goals? Even without COVID lockdowns, it is a funny time of year, we are close to the end of the...
Who are you trying to win over?
We all know new customers are critical to growing your business. Finding them, enticing them and converting them is the hard part. Trying to find them is a big business, in fact, the advertising market is a $2.8b market. Of course, it is much bigger than that when you...
We are already 8% through 2021 are you 8% through your growth plan?
If you have don’t a plan for growth, there’s really two things that are going to happen. We don’t have time to waste just aimlessly heading in any direction we need to lock in that plan. Lock in that growth and start executing and market and start winning in 2021.
You need to know who is making the buying decisions
Standard marketing practice for a lot of marketers, digital agencies, and myself is to analyse and work with personas. However, most people in complex B2B sales are doing them wrong, and they don't really understand there's actually more than one persona in the sales...
