Category: Building a business

  • Relevance, expansion and stickiness!

    Relevance, expansion and stickiness!

    If you remember my post from last week, I talked about how you can stay sticky through a big organizational shift like a merger or an acquisition. But barring a shift like that, a similarly effective way to stay entrenched is showing how you can solve problems in other departments or areas of business. Let’s…

  • “We got bought out”!

    “We got bought out”!

    No, we didn’t 😋 … but these four little words coming from a client can send shivers down any solution provider’s spine. Cue the mad dash scramble to show your value in a desperate attempt to save the contract – not great. Because for better or worse, the decision could be made before you even…

  • The Price is Right… or is it?

    The Price is Right… or is it?

    Let’s talk pricing today… and more specifically how easy it is to find the pricing for a product / solution. We’ve all been there: you find a solution that looks interesting, but before engaging you want to have a rough idea of possible budget. ⏳ A couple (hundred) of clicks later, nothing, the pricing page…

  • Buying ain’t what it used to be!

    Buying ain’t what it used to be!

    There was a time where people’s first step would be to reach out to a rep at a company to learn more about what they can offer. Nowadays, by the time you officially hear from a prospect directly or through meaningful engagement, they’ve already done a plethora of research on you and the product they…

  • Behind the curtain

    Behind the curtain

    5 reasons why we decided to share snippets of our internal customer research over on the ForecaaS Software Inc. page (follow us there if you aren’t already!): 1️⃣ Real-life insight into buying decisions is critical but can also be hard to get! 2️⃣ We had some great a-ha moments that might be helpful to other sellers (or buyers!)…

  • Cheers to the Tinkerers!

    Cheers to the Tinkerers!

    The dig-deepers.The data digesters.The experimenters.The quality assurers.The solution builders.The process pioneers.The layman translators.The continuous iterators.The persistent questioners.The complexity unravellers.The brave flip-the-switchers.The spaghetti-code destroyers.The configurers and field mappers. All those special personality traits keep organizations everywhere a well-oiled machine even when its owners tend to fly under the radar. If you have that team member that…