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How Are You Spending Your Social-Distancing “Vacation”?

Prudent Pedal

Optimize inbound conversion rates on marketing channels-While CRO is a never-ending exercise, this hiatus allows time to experiment more with updated content, the mix, and its messaging. I hope to complete The Practice Leader’s Guide to Growth and The Prudent Firm’s Guide to Transforming Professional Service Marketing. More good stuff.

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Goodbye Mammoth Digital Transformation Projects. Hello Digital Business

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Mention digital transformation to a CFO, and you would likely get push-back about big expenses and little ROI. And they show immediate outcomes, recouping costs and generating ROI, sometimes in a matter of days. They are trying to keep up with market, environmental, and consumer demands in a way that works.

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Transforming from a Good to Great Coach

Rick Conlow

Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) and the Human Capital Institute (HCI): Studies have shown that coaching programs yield a positive return on investment (ROI), with estimates of ROI ranging from 5:1 to 7:1 or even higher. While they knew their market, they did have the coaching know how or culture.

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Why CRM Projects Fail and How to Make Them More Successful

Harvard Business

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. ” The EVP of marketing was pleased she could now track the assignment of every single lead.

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Which Book Publishing Option Is Right for You?

Emerson Consulting Group

If you want to be respected as a “thoughtleader” and if you especially want to add speaking engagements to your marketing repertoire, you must consider writing and publishing a book. The credential of book authorship–despite the rise of social media, YouTube, and Internet marketing–holds no equal.

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How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile

Harvard Business

Training magazine reported that 2015 training expenditures were approximately $70 billion dollars , a 14% increase from 2014. Now in its 7th year, DAMCO’s investment in young commercial leaders has grown because the ROI of the program has been considerable, measured both in financial terms and in the growth of new business opportunity.

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To Reduce Complexity in Your Company, Start with Pen and Paper

Harvard Business

Nokia’s CEO was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2007, with the headline “Nokia: A billion customer and counting. In one, a star researcher said that he was leaving as there was no space for creativity anymore, as the company squeezed budgets and eliminated roles without a clear ROI. Eliminate bureaucracy.

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