Proxima B2B the brand that NASA lost and found. Welcome Proxima b

Proxima B2B is a company full of science geeks, NASA nerds, and even some left over Apollo addicts. So when NASA news blew up recently with all of the great news about Proxima Centauri and the many possibilities, we were all hooked on the @NASAtelescope Twitter feed.

the JPL and NASA site  was bursting with the exoplanet news and we're pretty excited about the new find.

To quote briefly, "The new planet circles Proxima Centauri, the smallest member of a triple star system known to science fiction fans everywhere as Alpha Centauri. Just over 4 light-years away, Proxima is the closest star to Earth, besides our own sun.

"This is really a game-changer in our field," said Olivier Guyon, a planet-hunting affiliate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and associate professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson. "The closest star to us has a possible rocky planet in the habitable zone. That's a huge deal. It also boosts the already existing, mounting body of evidence that such planets are near, and that several of them are probably sitting quite close to us. This is extremely exciting."

So as you might guess, the latest updates from the NASA site and JPL, are frequent quick stops on our morning coffee, pre-dawn,  virtual meeting. Yes, NASA news pumps us up for a day selling complex intangible, innovative, solutions for technology companies.

The new planet, dubbed Proxima b, is at least 1.3 times the mass of Earth. It orbits its star far more closely than Mercury orbits our sun, taking only 11 days to complete a single orbit -- a "year" on Proxima b.

Proxima B2B reviews the news and so do our clients. We're not holding it against JPL, or NASA, or the fine folks who made the discovery of Proxima b but if you find this post, you're doing better than lots of our own staff. Yes, big baby b, Proxima b, that is, has virtually buried all of our nifty notes on clients who have made huge sales, been acquired with glee by Oracle, and other recent news. 

It's all a matter of perspective. Proxima B2B is excited that our 2016 is the best sales year on record for our company, and that our clients are growing and building new revenue. 

It took a newly discovered exo-planet to bury our last press release. I think we'll call that great news for us all. Keep up the good work NASA and ESO. And, thanks to the Proxima B2B marketing team - we know you're putting the news out there and people will discover it in due time.

Sales Ideas for Engineers

This blog is for you. The engineers that ProximaB2B loves to build sales for. You know who you are.

If making cold calls, heck even warm calls, is your idea of being tortured like the scene with the rack in The Princess Bride

If I Love F*&cking Science is in your top ten viewed site list

If you build it and hope the customers will come, this blog is for you.

We love engineers, programmers, people who hate sales, nerds, geeks, and late night app developers who need revenue to keep the lights on. We know that engineers and developers of all sorts are a slightly different breed than those of us who CHOSE to build careers in sales. We admire your focus on the features and details of the UI. We stand in awe as you debug and compile and design and create.

But in the end, engineers have got to eat. Some of you have investors who are calling daily asking what your revenue plans are for this quarter and next. Some of you are looking at your partners wondering why the word-of-mouth referrals that have always brought in plenty of business aren't bringing in new projects. All of you need to build sales or you would be writing code or reading ILFS instead of a blog about sales for tech companies and the engineers who build solutions not sales plans.

Proxima B2B may be able to help. We've built predictable revenue for a lot of companies. We know when the warm lead is bored and when the follow-up call can be closed into new business. We love to work through pricing issues and positioning challenges. We thrive on trade show floors, telephones, and airplanes.

We're building this blog to help you, help yourself with sales tasks. When the time comes to review your results and bring in specialized professionals, we hope you'll call us.

About Katherine Parker@proximab2b.com

Katherine Parker, Kate to her friends, has been closing major sales for technology companies since the road warrior’s best friend was a Compaq luggable. In addtion to leading new business inititatives at ProximaB2B, Kate still makes at least 50 quality sales calls each week into the markets she knows best.

ProximaB2B closes sales for clients offering complex intangibles within the North American market. Northstar Enterprises, our parent company also offers consulting, training  and a full range of sales support services for company leaders who have found that 'selling yourself' is harder than it might at first seem.

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