Stay ahead with customer value thinking.

Joanne Moretti, Chief Marketing Officer, DecisionLink 30+ years of B2B sales, marketing & product experience

For sales professionals, the driving goal is often to make the sale  —  no matter what. While this is a natural quality of the sales profession, consider the idea that there may be a more ideal focus: the customer. In an approach known as the value-based selling methodology, the customer is always at the forefront of the process.

As contributor to the recent report, “2021 Predictions for Sales Leaders: The Year of Value,” I proposed that technology will become increasingly important to the entire commercial side of the business. Now, that may sound a little trite in a paper coming from a technology company, so here are some further thoughts to that prediction.

By David Brock

No. Aim your Value Correctly all the way UP the Food Chain!

Since the early 2000s, there has been an interesting trend, especially in the technology industry, to install a Chief Revenue Office instead of a CSO. It started off as a large, but by no means exclusively, Silicon Valley trend and focused on SaaS providers. Most SaaS start-ups were led by CEOs with product and engineering backgrounds and many of them quickly realized (or were advised so by their investors) that they needed further executive leadership with revenue and customer DNA to complement those skills and interests — but more than just a sales leader because SaaS success is about more...