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The customer relationship trap that kills repeat business
Do you ever run out of things to say to your former customers? You’re told that you’re supposed to build relationships, and leverage opportunities, but often the

Use this Tool to Plan for Six-Figure Accounts
What would it mean for your business if you had one more long-term, devoted customers? What about 5, 10, or 100? Click here to access

The Most-Neglected Low-Hanging Fruit
If you’re like most salespeople, account managers, and business owners I know, there’s a lot on your plate. Chances are you’re investing a lot of time and resources

What I Learned from Winning Business with 16 Fortune 500s
Source: Wikipedia Recently in my B2B Sales course, I received this question from a student: Hi Dan, I’m about halfway through the course and it

Timelines: The Ultimate Unsung Sales Tool
A timeline is a valuable organizational tool, and can be used to help a prospect or customer plan the course of a project from start

5 Steps to Go from Word-of-Mouth to Automated Leads
Software products have it good … If you do a quick search for software launch strategies, you’ll find tried and true methods for building massively

The lone wolf problem
“I’m scared to ask my boss for support.” We hear a version of this all the time from agency business development people, especially when they’re

Six questions to answer before your agency does outbound
I had a call with an agency owner last week. They recently inked a five-figure deal with a data provider and subscribed to various software

Webinar: End The Content Collection Nightmare.
Today we’ve got a little something different for you, on the operations side of the fence. A huge part of keeping clients longterm comes from

How to Revamp Your Agency New Business Strategy for a Digital World.
Six Ingredients for winning ideal clients sustainably without leaving your office.

How to run effective (and tasteful) agency-to-brand outreach in uncertain times.
I hope you and yours are safe and healthy. A sales and marketing flack like me should be far from your first source for pandemic-related

Agency Sales Tools: Our Simple Tech Stack
I’ve resisted writing this post for a while for a couple reasons: 1. It’s easy to use software and other shiny objects as distractions from