Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2017

Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs. million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S. companies over nine consecutive quarters (Q1 2014 through Q1 2016).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

economy in 2016. Too many sales teams (and other departments) enter data by hand but create fresh entries instead of searching their systems and updating existing accounts, which muddies their data sets. You can take a similar approach by arming sales with valuable information for engaging with prospects.

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BCG

JUNE 20, 2016

Article Monday, June 20, 2016. China’s economy continues to make global headlines, with each uptick or downtick in GDP growth, industrial output, retail sales, or other measure pored over like tea leaves for what it portends.

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BCG

APRIL 5, 2016

Article Tuesday, April 05, 2016. A quiet revolution has been happening in sales over the past several years. While many companies have continued to adhere to sales models developed a decade ago, “digital attackers” have been busy reinventing selling.

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BCG

APRIL 20, 2016

Article Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Strong sales in convenience stores—last year’s fastest-growing retail channel—helped power these sales. Several large, high-performing CPG companies derived most of their growth in 2015 from such product categories as confections, ice cream, and alcoholic beverages.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2016

December new home sales surged well over the high end Econoday estimate. The outlook for the housing sector just got a boost from a sharp jump in new home sales, up 10.8 With builders slow to bring new homes to market, low supply remains a central factor holding back sales. For full year 2015, new home sales rose 14.7

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A December 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal article was titled, “ Car Sales Roll Along; Aided by Discounts.*” The gist of the article was sales are up over the same month a year earlier and the average discount was 11%, versus 9.4% This reminded me of a story I tell in a couple of my talks. George Carlin. *

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Large US corporations posted their first decline in both earnings and sales since the great recession. Let's kick of the debate with the Wall Street Journal article U.S. of its total, as sales growth sagged for a wide range of wares. Sales are on pace to fall 4%—the third straight quarterly decline. US Back in Recession?

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BCG

AUGUST 29, 2016

Article Tuesday, August 30, 2016. And more often than not, buy-side and sell-side decisions are closely intertwined, as in when companies need to free up cash to buy a promising prospect or antitrust authorities require the sale of certain assets as part and parcel of a major acquisition.

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

When is the last time you read a helpful blog article that gave you actionable advice to improve your consulting business? Chances are, this answer would be found in the form of a blog article. This article lists what I consider to be the best blogs on consulting. You’ll be sure to find some help. Want to Get More Clients?

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BCG

AUGUST 23, 2016

Article Tuesday, August 23, 2016. By 2020, emerging markets will account for more than 30% of pharmaceutical sales growth worldwide. Southeast Asia alone is expected to generate $40 billion in pharmaceutical sales by 2020. And what works in developed markets won’t necessarily work in emerging economies.

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BCG

AUGUST 11, 2016

Article Thursday, August 11, 2016. OEMs need to rethink their approach as digital’s expanding influence on the purchase journey transforms the role—and potentially the business model—of the dealer from sales center to on-demand advisor and service provider, both pre- and postsale.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 21, 2020

Tsavo Neal Consulting – Founder & Digital Marketing Consultant (OCT 2016 – PRESENT). Freelance – Web Designer (JAN 2014 – SEPT 2016). I help professional services firms get more clients online.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 10, 2017

In mid-2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “Demand Swells for Chickens That Grow More Slowly.” ” The gist of the article is companies (Whole Foods, Starbucks, and others) believe customers will pay more for products from birds that grow slower (than those full of hormones and other additives).

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BCG

MAY 9, 2016

Article Tuesday, May 10, 2016. BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 24, 2018

This volume of new articles sparked an interest in me to learn more about this curious country. Chinese people really love their smart phones, and daily life is also being transformed by the many apps used for everything from hailing a car with Didi (the company that bought Uber China in 2016) to ordering food delivery with Ele.me

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

On Friday, July 15, 2016 the Wall Street Journal had an article titled, “ Surprise: The Economy Is Looking Much Better; Citigroups U.S. ” Here’s an excerpt from the article: Citi’s Surprise Index measures economic data relative to expectations. ” Andre Gide.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2017

Her article was based on research of 9,000 major acquisitions, which showed an investment in the Russell 3000 stock index would have increased by 200% from 2001-2016, while an investment in firms making major acquisitions would have increased only 67%. I’ve had clients with as little as $2-3 million in sale buy other companies.

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 3, 2017

Fast Company recently had an article titled, “ Forget Startups Just Buy a Small Business from a Retiring Entrepreneur.” Using statistics from BizBuySell.com the article stated the median price of businesses at the end of 2016 rose 8% from 2015 to $216,000. Now for the top three points in the article.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. 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.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

When the policy change was announced, people were given until December 30, 2016, to return 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to banks, or else risk losing the value of them. Arguably, the surge in business for mobile wallets was natural, at least for the 17% of the population that owned a smartphone in early 2016. instead of 7%.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste. Consultancy Catalina also revealed that 90 of the 100 top brands had all lost market share.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

This matters because ticket sales, merchandise, etc. This uncertain work environment is hurting ticket sales for a lot of places because the traffic patterns are different. The Blackhawks’ 2010s success is all due to Pearl Jam : Okay…okay, a few of y’all sent me the article and the tweet. Competition is a good thing…yeah.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 Looking only at that 15.2

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2017

On September 27, 2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “Doctors Give Pre-Surgery Orders to Get in Shape.” As I’ve written many times, and emphasize in my book, a company ready for sale should (must) have the following for the owner to exit with style, grace and for more money. The obvious one is profits.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. The brand lacked identity and the books for the previous year showed a decline in net sales and a dive in profits.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

There were 662 bankruptcy filings in retail, according to bankruptcydata.com, up 30% from 2016. In 2016 the average employee turnover in retail was 65%. In 2016 the median hourly wage of the country’s nearly 9 million retail workers was $10.37, below the poverty threshold for a family of four.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Addressing this dichotomy requires individuals who can “serve as liaisons” between the two, as Todd Clark and Dan Wiesenfeld suggested in a recent HBR article. For example, Bonabeau’s article described a project with Eli Lilly to develop a new way of managing drug development pipelines. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

My senior year in college, a black sales rep from IBM encouraged me and a group of fellow black students to consider a career with the company. When I joined the company, my branch sales manager — someone I considered a field office general — was black, as were many of my instructors.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

of China’s exports in 2016, according to the same report. Copying techniques have improved so much that some counterfeits now look just like the originals, while online sales make fakes even harder to spot. Many want genuine articles but buy fakes by mistake—mostly high-class counterfeits sold as original items.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. But the move to SaaS comes with considerable challenges: Firms will need to change their structure , sales culture, and incentives , and convince existing as well as new customers of the new offering’s value.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

In 2016, an influential study by Nir Jaimovich and Henry Siu showed that jobless recoveries occur because routine jobs are permanently eliminated during recessions. Whole Foods, an upscale supermarket, employs six workers per million dollar of sales. It took seven years for employment to return to its 2007 level. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The final numbers are in for the 2016 Black Friday weekend, and the results appear strong. But there’s a surprising insight in the data released by the National Retail Federation : 36% of shoppers reported that all of their purchases were on sale; 11% made that claim in 2015. Offer Flash Sales.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In Minnesota, a baker named Shelley Erickson mobilized customer support through two petitions on Change.org to challenge “cottage laws” that prohibited the sale of food made by independent bakers in their homes. Small businesses and entrepreneurs have also effectively deployed online petitions. Partner organizations.

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MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2015

Last week I wrote an article for the Illinois Policy Institute on the hugely unfunded and deteriorating nature of numerous Illinois'' pension systems. I will post the article on Monday. My article was on on state pension systems, not Chicago''s, and was written well ahead of downgrades of Chicago''s debt by Moody''s on Friday.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

When the front-line salesperson raises the possibility that the bribe demand may cause delays, management will actually pay any accrued bonus as if the sale had been completed, drawn from the bonus pool. “That’s enlightened management.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Vendors using eBay and Shopify pay listing and sales fees, and consumers pay transaction fees on payment portals like PayPal. In 2016, HubSpot published a research study showing that a majority of Internet users dislike most forms of pop-ups and mobile ads and see online advertisement as intrusive and negatively disruptive.

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