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Being nice in Sales: How bad is relationship building really?
tl;dr Relationship builders are often seen as too soft to perform well in sales. Nevertheless, this does not mean that the skill of...
Nils Brosch
Sep 264 min read


KPIs to evaluate sales MANAGERS
When you ask sales managers what they are responsible for, they say revenue growth. When you ask them how they grow revenue, they say by...
Nils Brosch
Sep 264 min read


Momentum vs. learning: How to react to bad sales calls?
TL;DR Giving up because your environment seems out of control is human, actually, some might not pick up hope once they regain...
Nils Brosch
Sep 223 min read


Customer Success health scores are worthless — here is how to fix it.
If you ask Customer Success Managers (CSMs) what the main benefit of their CS tool is, I would bet that they say “insight in the health...
Nils Brosch
Sep 225 min read


Building an Antifragile Approach to Internationalization
When companies decide to expand internationally, it often starts with a beautiful deck: market size data, country scoring, and a neat...
Nils Brosch
Sep 154 min read


Building Antifragile Startups and Sales Teams (incl. video)
Back in 2020, Sequoia Capital published its now-famous memo Coronavirus: Black Swan of 2020 . It spread like wildfire. The memo captured...
Nils Brosch
Sep 123 min read


Failing-forward through Lost-Deal Analysis
tl;dr If you build your sales playbook on characteristics of ‘won deals’ only, you are blind to the reasons why most deals simply don’t...
Nils Brosch
Sep 123 min read


How do Dutch SaaS companies expand internationally?
An analysis of the internationalisation patterns of 281 Dutch SaaS companies
Nils Brosch
Sep 1114 min read


A plea for more cohorts in sales
TL;DR: Most conversion rates are actually only displayed on a ‘one-month basis’ in CRMs [see Hubspot below], so a time-series aka....
Nils Brosch
Sep 113 min read


Courtesy forms in sales: breaking down walls between you and a prospect
The English language does not have multiple forms of addressing someone, dependent on i.e. status or hierarchy in a conversation, whereas...
Nils Brosch
Sep 113 min read


Ultimate Sales Call Coaching Guide
Table of Contents TLDR 3 COMPASS 3 Current situation 3 Types of coaching 4 Types of call coaching 5 Holistic-call Coaching 5 In-call...
Nils Brosch
Sep 912 min read


The Middle Management Paradox That's Blocking Your AI Adoption
Middle managers were asked to make most purchasing decisions on new tech (SaaS) in the last decades as tech got cheaper. Now they are...
Nils Brosch
Sep 95 min read


The Limits of Sales Influence on Success
I hesitated for a long time to write this article, as it sounds like an excuse and finger-pointing. I think most sales leaders would be...
Nils Brosch
Sep 96 min read
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