by Bob Hatcher | Oct 23, 2014 | Sales Summits, Sales transformation
Choosing target markets and market segmentation have always intrigued me. Although there are many ways to think of it, I had an epiphany as I reread one of the classic strategy books over the weekend, the book is “The Discipline of Market Leaders” and is available at...
by Bob Hatcher | Oct 23, 2014 | Sales Summits, Sales transformation
Over the past few weeks I’ve written about Tracey and Weirsma’s great book “The Wisdom of Market Leaders”. Last week we talked about companies who compete based upon “Customer Intimacy” (see below) and today we’re going to discuss those who compete on product...
by Bob Hatcher | Oct 23, 2014 | Sales Summits, Sales transformation
Last week I wrote about Tracey and Weirsma’s great book “The Wisdom of Market Leaders”. Over the next few blog articles I want to dive in a bit deeper and analyze each of those types from a sales perspective. This is, afterall, a sales blog! If you remember, your...
by Bob Hatcher | Oct 23, 2014 | Sales Summits, Sales transformation
This is the third installment in my series of blogs about the implications on sales of Tracey and Weirsma’s great book “The Wisdom of Market Leaders”. Last week we talked about companies who compete based upon “Product Leadership” (see below) and today we’re going...
by Bob Hatcher | Oct 23, 2014 | Sales Summits, Sales transformation
I have been a Miller Heiman sales consultant for ten years and have worked with small and large accounts implementing the Miller Heiman methodologies. My client is a small system integrator, I’ll call them XXX in the Boston area and they have used LAMP to define their...
by Bob Hatcher | Oct 23, 2014 | Sales Summits, Sales transformation
As a sales consultant, I get to work with a lot of great companies. One that I’ve worked with over the past few years was in an interesting situation, they were going to buy a new CRM system. Being on the buying end, rather than the selling end was quite a learning...