Be A Chameleon: Personality and Sales
By Jay Ludgrove Business, Digital Marketing, Lifestyle, Sales, Social Media, Startups Jun 22, 2021
I think the importance of bringing the personality to every conversation in sales is imperative. That doesn’t mean that you have to be the ...
“Stick To The Script!” – Placing Shackles Around A Salesperson
By Jay Ludgrove Business, Digital Marketing, Lifestyle, Sales, Social Media, Startups May 25, 2021
As a rule, a salesperson will start to become more successful as they gravitate away from their script. That’s not to say scripts have ...
3 Films For New Salespeople To Avoid
By Jay Ludgrove Business, Digital Marketing, Lifestyle, Sales, Social Media, Startups May 10, 2021
New to sales? Do NOT use these films as your professional template! As exciting as sales can be, your most successful days wouldn’t make ...
The Podcasting 2021 State of the Industry Address
By Jay Ludgrove Business, Digital Marketing, Lifestyle, Podcast, Podcasting, Sales, Social Media, Startups Apr 27, 2021
My fellow podcasters. Our young industry has gone through sizeable challenges and experienced a great level of transformation as our rapid period of growth ...
Fake Doctors, Real Friends: A Perfect Example of Podcast Evolution
By Jay Ludgrove Business, Digital Marketing, Lifestyle, Podcasting, Sales, Social Media Mar 31, 2021
Who remembers the launch of E4? Cast your mind back to those halcyon days back in January 2001, when Channel 4’s digital little sister ...
A Homage to the Little Things in Life and Sales
By Jay Ludgrove Business, Digital Marketing, Lifestyle, Sales, Social Media, Startups Feb 09, 2021
A brand new podcast! An expensive flashy website! Throwing all your money at a social media strategy! It can be tempting to fall into ...
Patience: Is it a Virtue?
By Jay Ludgrove Business, Digital Marketing, Lifestyle, Sales, Social Media, Startups Aug 18, 2020
Patience: is it a virtue? It’s nearing the end of the fiscal year and you’re £50K away from making your annual sales budget, and ...
5 reasons NOT to slash your marketing budget
By Jay Ludgrove Business, Digital Marketing, Sales, Startups Aug 10, 2020
You’ll know the position with your departmental business budgets better than most, but with companies under economic threat and needing to cut costs, history ...
4 Proven techniques for selling to SMB customers
By Jay Ludgrove Sales, Business, Startups Aug 03, 2020
You already know how valuable it can be to sell to SMB customers, so we are going to walk you through four tried-and-tested sales ...
According to recent data, around 3.5 billion people are using social media. That’s nearly half the global population. If you’re a seller and you’re ...
I remember reading a study done a while back on the characteristics of the top 1% of sales professionals. There was one that jumped ...
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Sales Manager
Image By Jay Ludgrove Business, Digital Marketing, Lifestyle, Sales Apr 20, 2020
1. Don’t worry about forecasting. For some reason, I thought that accurately forecasting and reporting my team’s numbers was going to be a huge ...