Tom Spencer

MAY 25, 2019

Characteristics of Asset Management Firms. Most major asset managers are conservative with their use of leverage. There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. Valuation of Asset Management Firms. Price/Earnings, EV/EBITDA and EV/AUM.

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Cash Flow Management Metrics Benchmarking 60

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

For many executives battling through economic headwinds in emerging markets, the answer tends to be wherever they think someone will provide the strongest boost to top-line growth, which usually means hiring an additional sales or marketing manager to support the commercial front lines. Somewhere else?

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Sales Marketing Survey Finance 28

Progressus

AUGUST 29, 2023

Let’s delve into how a robust project accounting strategy can revamp project management, enhance forecast precision, and uplift profitability. For companies where projects are the heartbeat, sales, marketing, and client servicing are the vital vessels supporting this heartbeat.

Cash Flow 52

Cash Flow Financial Sales Operations 52

Management Consulted

JANUARY 1, 2017

Check out our breakdowns on Profitability , Market Sizing , and Market Study to become a complete expert on any kind of framework you’ll need in your case interview. These cases can be some of the scariest, because they test things like finance principles, but on the other hand, they’re really easy to recognize.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal).

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Consulting Operations Financial Real Estate 135

Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 12, 2023

Consider cross-selling, upselling, and expanding into new markets. Market Expansion : Explore opportunities for market expansion, whether it’s entering new geographical areas, offering complementary products, or diversifying your service offerings. Identify bottlenecks and areas where automation can be beneficial.

Cash Flow 52

Cash Flow Balance Sheet Financial Efficiency 52

Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Pretty small.

Marketing 40

Marketing PricewaterhouseCoopers Cash Flow Banking 40

Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 20, 2023

Entrepreneurs often face a myriad of challenges, from market research to legal compliance. Step-by-Step Guide to Starting a New Venture Idea Generation : Begin by brainstorming ideas that align with your interests, skills, and market demand. Finances : Secure startup funding through personal savings, loans, investors, or grants.

Cash Flow 52

Cash Flow Financial Sales Analysis 52

LSA Global

JANUARY 19, 2021

Frustrated by Disappointing Sales Training Results? If you are frustrated by the results of your business sales training investment, you are not alone. Lots of sales leaders feel the same way. Only 1-in-5 sales training participants change their on-the-job behavior or performance from standalone sales training.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2023

Homelife: Are your finances, relationships with your significant other, issues with children, and aging parents weighing on you? And when I added in the marketing agency-type services like website design, I let go of parts of my mentoring, especially around community building and teaching, that I loved. What about you?

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Energy Exercises Consulting Sales 156

Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? Our hypothesis was that increased sales volume would be associated with increased profitability due to economies of scale. His advice was specific to consulting, but applicable to other areas of business too.

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Data Consulting Balance Sheet Analysis 78

Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 23, 2024

These inefficiencies hinder productivity and hamper the ability to adapt to market dynamics. In the rapidly evolving business landscape, missing the right moment to pivot or innovate can lead to a loss of market share. Their expertise spans strategic planning, financial management, operations, and beyond.

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Consulting Turnaround ROI Case Study 52

LSA Global

AUGUST 28, 2019

Sales Training without Reinforcement Should Be Unacceptable. Based upon over 800 sales training measurement projects, we know that sales training by itself – even if it is highly customized – only changes the on-the-job behavior and performance of 1-in-5 sales reps. Sales training reinforcement.

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Consultant Journal

MARCH 5, 2020

How should small business owners manage the corona virus, aka COVID-19 ? In the meantime, based on current information, you can take the following steps: Managing Employees. Think about what’s actually needed for your sales and marketing : Wave or nod instead of shaking hands. Keep in mind that recommendations may change.

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Small Business Cash Flow Policies Tools 114

Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

However, managing them effectively can be challenging, given the intricacies of resource management, project performance, and diverse financial elements such as billing models, regulations, and currencies. People often generate nearly 80% of the industry’s revenue, making efficient resource management critical.

Cash Flow 52

Cash Flow Metrics Resources Sales 52

Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

All lights were off except a spotlight on the presenting manager and the CEO’s reading light. Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. This CEO sat up in the stands.

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Emotional Intelligence Study Leadership Finance 88

Rick Conlow

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Few companies have learned how to get better and lead their markets. Leaders focus more on their industry, finances, profitability, and marketing, they are not experts in helping customers. Leaders focus more on their industry, finances, profitability, and marketing, they are not experts in helping customers.

Leadership 52

Leadership eBook Video Training 52

MishTalk

DECEMBER 28, 2013

RT reports French broadcasting watchdog CSA eager to tax YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion France''s Superior Council of Audiovisual, an independent broadcasting authority, wants to impose taxes on media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion to force them to contribute to financing French culture. billion ($1.8

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Finance Culture Film Advertising 78

LSA Global

AUGUST 20, 2019

All companies seek to experience high sales growth. A recent McKinsey study of more than 1,000 companies identified five meaningful things that distinguish fast-growing sales organizations from their lagging peers. Four Ways to Unlock High Sales Growth for Your Company. Why Do Some Companies Grow Profitably While Others Stall?

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Sales Company How To McKinsey 28

Tom Spencer

JANUARY 20, 2023

Without a doubt, a career in the management consulting industry comes with many short- and long-term benefits. For example, digital marketing executives would just focus on digital marketing; sales executives on sales for a particular set of products, and so on.

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Agencies involve people in the matching process and, typically, to oversee projects and “manage the client relationship.” (I Sample projects include company valuation, workshop development, competitive analysis, financial projections, go-to-market plans, performance measurement, and pricing. Some are fixed price, some by the hour.

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. In fact, the greatest long-term success belongs to companies that enter a market and become leaders about 13 years after these first movers. MITS introduced the first personal computer in 1975.

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Guidelines Operations Talent Sports 140

Comatch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Case in point, Activision , one of the world’s leading game publishers, managed a cost-to-benefit ratio of 1-to-2.1 This represents an average annual benefit of $800,000 (measuring only Activison’s costs related to support interactions to manage its customer relationships). Costs related to training employees to use the CRM system.

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ROI How To Tools Sales 52

MishTalk

MARCH 11, 2014

Finance reports U.S. Wholesale Inventories Rise, but Sales Drop Sharply. wholesale inventories rose more than expected in January, as companies built up stocks of autos and machinery, though sales posted their largest decline in nearly five years. Sales at wholesalers fell 1.9 Economists had forecast sales to edge up 0.2

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Sales Report Finance Productivity 69

Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Few companies have learned how to get it right and lead their markets. However, executives are focused on their industry, finances, marketing, and profitability. Today, to lead in an industry a company must be stellar in their online marketing and any customer contact digitally or personal. Most try and end up failing.

Leadership 69

Leadership eBook Video Training 69

The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Your marketing message communicates to the world what your business is about. And your LinkedIn profile is the perfect place to both develop and spotlight your most focused marketing message. This is the fourth of five articles about the 5 Pillars of Marketing, my marketing model that helps get your marketing on track.

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Marketing B2B Media Course 54

Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects.

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Agile Tools Data Talent 52

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Finance reports Black Friday Shopping Crowds Thin After Thanksgiving Rush. Brisk Sales The New York Times reports Black Friday Sales Are Brisk, Retailers Say, Bolstered by Online Deals. Big retailers, many of whom kicked off sales Thursday evening, reported brisk traffic overnight. Crowds Thin Yahoo!Finance

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Sales Retail Report Finance 69

MishTalk

JULY 10, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales. REITs Deepening Bond Losses as Leverage Forces Sales. Big Picture.

Sales 73

Sales Real Estate Financial Advertising 73

Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 30, 2022

Sales/Marketing. Capital/Financing. Point of Sale. Revenue Cycle Management. Supply Chain Management. Cash Flow Management. Reputation Management. Risk Management. Retail/E-Commerce. Corporate Filing. Employee relations/Human Resources. Vendor Relations. Product Development. Outsourcing.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2020

It is a critical step towards identifying growth opportunities in business and should be carried out before undertaking any of the following actions: Developing customized marketing programs (e.g. Demographic segmentation divides a market through variables such as age, gender, education level, family size, occupation, income, and more.

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Apparel Retail Examples Productivity 103

Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 21, 2014

Since this blog has a long history covering management consulting, I thought I would share some thoughts on integrating behavioral economics into the practice of consulting. How effective are our management dashboards and processes for managing a portfolio of projects?

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Consulting Finance System Sales 150

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles. At the highest level, Workplace Analytics can provide a factual foundation for decisions on sales structure and roles.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ERP is a type of software system that helps organizations automate and manage core business processes for optimal performance. Most companies have a finance and operational system in place, but siloed systems can’t go beyond everyday business processes or help with future business growth. What is ERP Software? Ensure business agility.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Strong relationships also get you referrals — also known as revenue with little to no cost of sales. New prospects that come from customer referrals also have a sales closing rate much higher than other leads. So there is no advertising cost + much less sales effort required. That’s a force multiplier. This is why CEOs are CEOs.

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McKinsey Sales Operations Industry 59

Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Companies which are not externally project driven may use project accounting to track internal projects such as a marketing campaign, or some type of capital improvement. The functionality necessary to complete these project management processes is simply not accessible from a simple General Ledger (GL) only.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 23, 2018

I like to think I’m a pretty good marketer of my professional services. After all, I’ve been at it for 34 years, read hundreds of marketing books, thousands of articles and studied with the very best marketing gurus. But marketing is still challenging for me and the majority of independent professionals.

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