Last month LinkedIn turned legal drinking age in the UK: 18 years. It will have to wait another three years to be drinking age in the US or India. So this is a dedication blog to the oldest of the major social media platforms in existence today. But I won’t bore you with the usual […]
In the last blog post I discussed on how Twitter is a lost prospecting opportunity making a strong case for it. In this post we will work in detail on how best to prospect on Twitter. This blog is gonna be a hands-on workshop so be ready to put in the effort to see amazing […]
Twitter is where people vent out their anger on a bad product. Twitter is where people post about their immediate emotions. And that makes it one of the best prospecting strategies. LinkedIn is where almost everyone behaves professionally. It is a platform for good long-form posts (and unfortunately a ton of “good morning” and “motivation” […]
Take a look at the image below. It is not just any beetle. It is the green tiger beetle. It is the fastest creature on earth relative to size. To give you a perspective if Usain Bolt, the fastest man on earth’s record gaining speed in a spring was 27 miles per hour. If Bolt […]
“Let me block some time on your calendar”. That is one phrase that has always bothered me. Let us do a small experiment. Imagine the words below: Calm Harsh Soft Blunder Disastrous Beautiful Mesmerising Horrific Notice how you uttered each of these words in your mind with the very meaning they might carry. Calm for […]
This Qtr you have 64 working days(US markets). And we just finished five of them. That leaves you with 59 working days to smash that $100K quota. A Qtr is a fancy word. “My quota for this Qtr is $100K.” “The feature will be released next Qtr.” “We need a 21% QoQ growth.” A Qtr […]
Moments before Jobs arrived, the PR person for Apple walked to Watson and told him: “I just want to let you know Steve Jobs hates photographers.” Imagine you have 60mins with one of the most powerful people on Earth and he hates you. Photographer Albert Watson did not have to imagine – it was his […]
CRM is the largest segment of Enterprise Software market, generating over 11% of total global software revenue. Salesforce’s AppExchange hosts over 3400 apps. Presuming one:one relationship to app developers and apps on the Salesforce marketplace, that is 3400 companies relying on Salesforce’s unavailability of a feature or building onto the CRM data to sell their […]
It’s the quarter end and you are in a meeting with your GTM leadership and one of your sales Directors makes a comment: “I think the deals are spending too much time Negotiating.” And a debate ensues on the validity of the comment. And then all eyes are on you – coz they all remember […]
When I published the last post, a business head at an early stage startup messaged to tell me he related to the problem firsthand. With that validation, this post is a natural extension to the last one. If you were a navigator surfing the oceans thousands of years ago, you would be guided by the […]
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