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The Boomerang Effect: Why Trashing Competitors Just Makes You Look Bad!
Three decades ago when I was a young salesman in the UK, I walked into a lab in Cambridge University. The lab boss told me that my...
Rory Geoghegan
Mar 115 min read


We are Hiring: Sales and Marketing Support Specialist (Life Science)
We are looking for a detail-oriented individual with an interest in life sciences to join our team as a Sales & Marketing Support Specialist

Red Box Direct
Feb 273 min read


Green Leaf Scientific wins Precisionary Instruments’ Distributor of the Year!
Green Leaf Scientific wins Precisionary Instruments’ Distributor of the Year! Learn more!

Red Box Direct
Oct 22, 20246 min read


Case Study: How Red Box Direct Facilitates Global Growth for Life Science Innovators - Organomation
Red Box Direct , through the Green Leaf Science distribution model is committed to empowering manufacturers of life science research...

Red Box Direct
Jul 4, 20243 min read


Maximising Your Life Science Distributor Relationships
Learn how to effectively find, manage, and leverage life science distributors in our latest webinar blog!

Red Box Direct
Mar 21, 20242 min read


How to Screw Up a Remote Life Science Demo!
In 1895, the first electro-mechanical life science research machine was invented by Willem Einthoven. He called it the Electrocardiogram,...
Rory Geoghegan
Jun 16, 20234 min read


Hiring Technical Salespeople in the Life Science Industry - The How
I often think that in the world of work, the effort we put in cannot always guarantee success. However (and this is really important), in...
Rory Geoghegan
Jun 12, 20235 min read


Launching a New Life Science Product: It’s simple (but not easy!)
Okay! So you’ve done months or years of gruelling R&D. Hardware, software, firmware are all finished and even the user manuals are...
Rory Geoghegan
Jun 6, 20235 min read


Why having your own sales process adds value to your business
What is the most common problem with the sales function in manufacturing companies? Below, I’ll show you and then I’ll explain how to fix...
Rory Geoghegan
May 18, 20235 min read


Why Life Science distributors don’t share information?
In the high-value scientific instrumentation business, international distributors are our allies in the campaign to sell our fantastic...
Rory Geoghegan
Apr 28, 20233 min read


Why exhibiting science products is like fishing
Some years ago, I was out for a walk in Hong Kong while on a business trip and I found myself staring at an amazing array of fish in an...
Rory Geoghegan
Apr 16, 20237 min read


Pricing Products for the Academic Research Market
So you’ve developed the latest must-have PCR machine, or the fastest data recorder in the world, but now you need to decide on a price to...
Rory Geoghegan
Mar 28, 20235 min read


The Challenges of Setting Up a Remote Sales Office
So you have built your business over the years and now you are well established in your home market. You understand how to find and sell...
Rory Geoghegan
Mar 2, 20237 min read


How to transform scientists into salespeople
Technical sales is a challenging career and certainly not for everyone. From the employers perspective there are four key challenges:...
Rory Geoghegan
Feb 28, 20234 min read


Why discount offers don’t work?
“20% Off, this month only!” “3 for the price of 2…” “Buy now, get a free XXX (a $50 Value!)” Offers like these work in the stores we all...
Rory Geoghegan
Jan 7, 20235 min read


Santa's Sales Wish List!
Sorry, I couldn't help myself! Well, it is the season of giving, and as I was making plans for gifts for my loved ones, it occurred to me...
Rory Geoghegan
Dec 15, 20223 min read


Something Got Lost in Transmission!
I was on a video conference call last week when I realized that I had missed something important. It was a video conference and we were...
Rory Geoghegan
Sep 28, 20224 min read


Who (or how to hire well)
“Let’s try them and see how they work out……” is not a good hiring plan. If you agree then this book should interest you. Smart and Street...
Rory Geoghegan
Sep 7, 20221 min read


Measure What Matters
Not many people have sat on the board of both Amazon and Google at the same time but John Doerr did. He started out at Intel and went on...
Rory Geoghegan
Aug 16, 20221 min read


Trade Shows - Active vs Passive Participation.....
OK, so this is going to be a boring post. Honestly, I wish it didn’t have to be but I have just come back from a trade show in Paris and...
Rory Geoghegan
Aug 16, 20225 min read
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