Posted on February 16th, 2009 by Dave Stein
Years ago I was based in Europe, opening up operations there for Datalogix International, an ERP software company. Datalogix “wound up” in Europe after selling a large deal to a Boston-based adhesives company, Bostik. Bostik came to us with a problem: the were being sold by their parent company, Black & Decker, and Bostik had [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Dave Stein
One of the top firms among the 26 sales performance improvement providers ESR covers is Performance Methods, Inc. (PMI). Founder and managing partner Steve Andersen is recognized as a thought-leader in the demanding and often misunderstood area of strategic account management. (Listen to Steve in an ESR/Podcast.) To understanding what a strategic account management methodology [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Dave Stein
Geoffrey James writes a great blog. I enjoy reading it, plus I most often learn something. Although it’s more targeted to sales people than sales leaders, Geoffrey knows a lot about selling, is very well informed about a lot of things, and is a really good writer. Last week he wrote a seriously gutsy post about whether the U.S. should bail out of [...]
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