Every day, we post on Sparklane’s blog articles dealing with sales and marketing topics. Those practical contents are written by our team of authors. Among them some well-known experts such as...

To say that the sales industry has changed is somewhat of an understatement. Before the rise of the Internet through to the 2020 horizon, the changes have been incredible and there is no end of...

IBM’s latest developments to its Watson super-computer demonstrate year on year that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to play an increasingly dominant role in how our companies operate in...

Following our article published last Tuesday (see first part), here are the rest of the 10 fool-proof sales techniques that will help you exceed your sales targets. 6 – Put your sales people into...

By multiplying data sources, predictive marketing can anticipate the requirements of leads and increase the conversion rate. It also rationalises recruitment campaigns. How can we define...

You will certainly remember the tyre manufacturer Pirelli’s advertising slogan “Power is nothing without control.” Applied to CRM, the slogan could well be “CRM is nothing without reliable data.”...

All companies — and all sales people — dream of closing their sales faster. Because the faster you conclude your sales, the larger the volume of deals handled, and the higher the turnover...

Is a complex sales method still useful? The question may seem surprising, even absurd. However, various anecdotes heard here and there would suggest that sales, and its methods, are just an...

The business-to-business (B2B) strategy known as Account Based Marketing has existed for more than a decade now…but still; it seems widely misunderstood and under-utilised by many. This is...

There is a tendency to talk about artificial intelligence in the future tense. ‘AI will change that.’ ‘One day, AI will do this’. The reality though is that the future is here. Businesses that...

Artificial intelligence isn’t new, but as a technology it’s still very much in its infancy. The term was first coined in 1956, but AI as we know it didn’t officially begin until the first neural...