by Tim Hughes | @Timothy_Hughes | LinkedIn I was in a customer meeting with my co-founder Adam Gray the other day and Adam tells a story. There is a 100 meters sprint, lined up are Usain Bolt, Linford Christie, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Tyson Gay, Donovan Bailey, Christine Arron and you. The gun is fired and 10 seconds...
by Tim Hughes | @Timothy_Hughes | LinkedIn Yes that’s right. I was reading an article about Kathryn Parsons in The Sunday Times, she started a tech education company Decoded in 2011, promising to teach everyone and anyone to code in one day. The business in now active in more than 85 countries. And it got...
by Adam Gray | @AGSocialMedia | LinkedIn Do you think that it’s okay for your personal trainer to be overweight and out of shape? Do you think that your personal “success coach” should arrive at your office in a rusty old car? Do you think that your vegan chief should indulge in the occasional sneaky...
by Tim Hughes | @Timothy_Hughes | LinkedIn I used to have a very large pharmaceutical company as a client and one day I asked them, “what are you doing about social media?” “Nothing, we are regulated”. Was the response. I asked “So I or anybody can go on-line and say your product is rubbish, what...
by Philip Hesketh | @PhilipJHesketh | LinkedIn The debate on the relative merits of old school sales techniques versus social selling is full of claims and counterclaims. I thought, why not look at the evidence myself and compare the two strategies for prospecting. A friend of mine who works as a salesperson in a B2 Information...
by Adam Gray | @AGSocialMedia | LinkedIn Do you remember before the internet existed? Do you remember how the telephone and the pub and bumping in to people in the street was how you learned about things and found opportunities with you life…parties…jobs…exciting new inventions and discoveries? So do I, but time change, things move...
by Tim Hughes | @Timothy_Hughes | LinkedIn I’m standing in line waiting to get on my EasyJet flight back to London. We have been on holiday for the New Year vacation, back to work on Monday. Just before we left the UK it was announced that the only large record shop in the UK went...
by Tim Hughes | @Timothy_Hughes | LinkedIn Sales is a profession just like Doctor or Lawyer we have our professionalism to withheld and we have always done this. It’s more important than ever to do this as people can now see your social presence on all the social networks you are on. So while Social...
by Tim Hughes | @Timothy_Hughes | LinkedIn We talk with many, many companies and the one thing they have in common is that they are scared. The world has changed, we have been using mobile phones for many years now. Apps like Uber, Shazam, Facebook etc unheard of ten years ago are now used by...
by Tim Hughes | @Timothy_Hughes | LinkedIn We have seen a number of changes in social selling over the years. One change is the way people have moved from “I suppose we must do it” to some sort of “combo prospecting” sometimes called the “social phone”. Which is where people cold call and use social...
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