Top 5 reasons to invest in sales & marketing expertise

* Marketing & Selling is harder than ever before, you need the right domain expertise to succeed * Runways are shorter, you need to achieve customer & revenue traction faster than ever before * More competition than ever before, it’s vital to get your...
Bad Sales

Bad Sales

Every three months or so I receive a call from the same sales rep. He immediately launches in to a sales pitch without any regard to what my needs are, in this case I don’t need what he sells. Yet he hasn’t bothered to ask me any questions that would...

Article on Advantages of Outsourcing

Good article on the advantages of outsourcing but doesn’t address the advantages of engaging specific domain expertise that you need to go to market from a sales and marketing perspective. The value proposition is accelerated ramp-up, faster time to revenue and...

Business Week article on Outsourcing

Good article on outsourcing. While I agree with the assertion that most VCs won’t consider investing in a start-up that doesn’t have an outsourcing plan, it seems that most people only consider outsourcing for development. There is a new wave of...