As a marketing consultant, I like to keep to date with the developments in systems available to marketers and their firms and so I spent some time with the folk at Thomson Reuters to see what is on offer with Hubbard One which is used by a significant number of Read More
I recently did some work with a professional firm on value propositions. And whilst I cannot share the detail of that work I thought it was worth highlighting a few key points about the importance of the poorly understood (or applied) concept of value propositions. Definitions There are numerous definitions Read More
Huthwaite International is acknowledged as some of the leading experts on selling (based on psychologist Neil Rackham’s work on SPIN selling) so it was with interest that I watched a video recently with highlights of their recent conference on “Winning tenders with procurement” where there is a high involvement from Read More
I recently attended a short PSMG session led by Paul Denvir of The Pace Partners on the psychology of price. He started with an exercise where we were all to noted down what we would consider the values of expensive cars and houses and cheap holidays and we quickly saw Read More
I really shouldn’t have to talk about the importance of face to face contact on tenders – I thought it was perfectly obvious. But I was so shocked by a recent event that I simply had to put pen to paper (well, fingers to keyboard). A lot of my time is spent Read More
