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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Brocade, a data and network solutions provider, created a “customer first” program by identifying their top 200 customers, who account for 80% of their sales. That takes time and resources – and it also requires bringing creative thinking to unfamiliar problems. These members are 2.6 The results?

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How One CMO Revamped Her Role

Harvard Business

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising.

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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. Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. And the sales team — well, they mostly hated it. The result?

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Inside the Minds of Your Prospects: 37 Critical Digital Marketing Statistics for Consultants

Tsavo Neal

So, I beg you, don’t design your own sales materials. Many sales are won and lost by simply by how you graphically represent yourself.” Source: Hinge Research 2017 High Growth Study. Be the one to help them by providing said resources. An unresponsive website is useless in 2017. Speaking Engagements.

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

Resources page. ROI calculator. –Cal Friesen, Thought Leadership Resources. Further Reading: Why you need to get your firm’s ideas into trade publications (Thought Leadership Resources). McKinsey’s most popular article in 2017 was a list post. Examples: What CEOs are reading in 2017 .