The Pitch - Sales and Marketing Blog

Making successful sales copy

Why does everyone use totally effusive, exuberant, effervescent language to sell their products?
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Leverage in sales and marketing

Seeking Out the Opportunities: A Case Study in What They Call ‘Leverage’!

 Many businesses do not capitalise on what they already have and own.
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Intensity of customer interaction

Is it better to work with more businesses (in a relatively shallow way) or is it better to work with fewer businesses but in a more intense way (and therefore with more long-term benefit)?

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Losing sight of customers

Just done a quick review of recent consultancy assignments with larger businesses selling into the SME sector.
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Increasing sales 150% in 6 months

You need to focus on these critical issues. . .
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A call to action

It seems that my ‘Beating The Credit Crunch’ book and ‘ology’ is like marmite. People love it or hate it.
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Corporate myopia

I am building up a portfolio of corporate myopia stories.
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Expensive: The new free

We are in a world where things have gone from ‘cheap’ to ‘free’… to a logical step of us being paid (while a company pays for the adverts) to get us to try their stuff. All a bit upside down to me.

’Try Before You Buy’ is one thing, but giving stuff away is not the raison d’etre of your business.

What’s the new ‘free’?

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Are less clients more?

I have come across an interesting challenge. Is it better for me to work with more businesses (in a relatively shallow way) or is it better for me to work with fewer but in a more intense way (and therefore more long-term benefit to the select group of clients)?

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What really matters to SMEs right now

“What keeps you awake at night… about your business?”

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