t’s like Groundhog Day around here for most of us. What day is it? What time is it? If it weren’t for this newsletter, I may have forgotten to turn the month on the calendar! This week in sales and marketing news, it’s all about dealing with crisis. Many businesses have taken a body blow in the last month. Others have been suffering through learning a new way to work. We have articles on all of it. We talk about Zoom’s boom, visit Maine to learn how the lobstermen are learning direct to consumer sales, take a peek into a possible future with contactless payments, and end up with an article on pricing. All decent reads and if you want to talk about any of them, give us a call! We’re around.

It’s all about the virus but there are other things going on in sales and marketing news this week. We went 50/50 on our favorite articles. One opinion piece on sales channels and direct-to-consumer we can apply to B2B sales, two articles on the coronavirus: one on planning and one on newsjacking, and one article on sales and marketing living in harmony. It’s a great time to be generating leads because plans are being scrutinized and forecasts changed. Enjoy!