Connect the Dots in your messaging A common challenge we see with growing companies is dogmatic need to stick to their core initial messaging. It’s understandable how this happens. After bringing a new product or service to the market and thirsty for revenue they offer to sell their offering to anyone who will pay. This…
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Is it Really a Partnership?
Having recently returned from the HLTH 2022 conference in Las Vegas it became abundantly clear that the term “partnership” is both over-used, and frequently mis-used. This is also something we’ve routinely seen in the engagements we undertake with clients. It may seem like a simple issue of terminology and definition, but we’ve seen how it…
True Innovation Requires a Unique Sales Approach
We recently read and discussed an article from McKinsey & Company entitled “What’s wrong with solutions selling – and how to put it right.” It’s a great analysis of the role a company can play, and the investments it can make, in order to make its sales team more effective. The authors make the case…
Great Marketing…Be Careful What You Wish For
By Eric Gombrich A common challenge we encounter with entrepreneurial and early stage companies is a focus on ‘Marketing’ without reciprocal attention being paid to ‘Sales.’ Grant you, this is viewed through the lens of the entrepreneurial venture selling its wares to other organizations, or Business-to-Business (B2B), and not consumer-based sales (B2C). This context is…
“A Person is Smart, People are Dumb”
By Eric Gombrich My wife and I just returned from seeing To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway in New York. I can’t rave enough about Aaron Sorkin’s interpretation of the Pulitzer Prize winning Harper Lee classic. Required reading for most US teenagers (and made into a movie staring Gregory Peck in 1962), if you’ve not…