Sales Opportunity Expert (Financial Technology)
London, United Kingdom
Sales Opportunity Expert (Financial Technology)
London, United Kingdom
My consultancy firm helps financial technology vendors establish their thought-leadership, build real credibility and engage at the top-decision making levels. We increase the number of new business opportunities in their sales pipeline either by prospecting on a vendor's behalf or by training their salespeople to prospect far more effectively.
Trade exhibitions and other marketing vehicles cannot deliver the high ROI nor the qualified feedback from potential customers that our services have consistently delivered to vendor clients over 12 years.
(E-Learning industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Mike O'Hara and myself record a regular podcast about methods to improve your new business generation skills in a B2B environment. Over 1 million downloads and climbing. www.coldcallingpodcast.com
(Financial Services industry)
June 1997 — Present (12 years 7 months)
Elicit Intelligence is a consultancy firm expert at developing new sales opportunities in financial services technology sector at EVP and C-level. Well connected in the major banks and buyside firms, we have helped around one-third of the major solution providers in the financial technology vertical win sales from the other two-thirds.
So if you've lost business recently - we may well be the reason. And if you're winning deals - then you can be sure that we're not working for your competitors.
I've surpassed Malcolm Gladwell's "magic number" of contacts. See above link. If anyone has views on whether this is a good or bad thing in LinkedIn I'd be interested to discuss it with you. Business Interests: Inventing strategies to lower the high costs of face to face selling. Engaging with new customers and markets using communication methods that benefit all parties. Other Interests: Observing shifts and changes in society, alternative fuels, gravity, magnetism, the Steorn OU debacle. Anything mechanical needing repair. Mastery of the Internet as a business research and intelligence tool. Favourite line. "Curiousity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect" - Steven Wright.