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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

Retained search firms and recruiters play a crucial role in attracting and retaining human capital in organizations across cultures (Allen & Vardaman, 2017). B2C & D2C Organizations hire her firm as a talent partner and trusted advisor to introduce them to influential Leaders at the C-Suite, Executive, Director, and Manager levels.

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7 Key Decisions for Starting Your Consulting or Coaching Business Right

Consulting Matters

Your heart won't be in it, and your clients will know that you are trying to land them for the sale and not out of a heart of service. The Difference Between B2B and B2C Business Models. On the other hand, coaches are focused on the leaders themselves and helping them improve their personal and leadership effectiveness.

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7 Key Decisions for Starting Your Consulting or Coaching Business Right

Consulting Matters

Your heart won't be in it, and your clients will know that you are trying to land them for the sale and not out of a heart of service. The Difference Between B2B and B2C Business Models. On the other hand, coaches are focused on the leaders themselves and helping them improve their personal and leadership effectiveness.

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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business

million RMB (nearly $500,000) in sales of a limited-edition handbag in just six minutes. After building relationships with targeted WeChat influencers, the company’s marketing team developed an affiliate sales model through which the influencers promoted their product licenses, and then both sides split the generated sales.

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The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users — Not Buyers

Harvard Business

Furthermore, they engage customers more as users than as buyers, shifting their investments from pre-purchase promotion and sales to post-purchase renewal and advocacy. We suspect that the nature of their products, culture, and business model leads them to more of a usage mentality. Are people actually using the product?

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business

PMs must understand customers’ emotions and concerns about their product as much as they understand the concerns of the sales team on how to sell that product, or the support team on how to support it, or the engineering on how to build it. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role?

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The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing

Harvard Business

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Despite taking the faux-curmudgeonly attitude of an anthropologist exploring the strange world of business dudes — is a sales funnel really that much of a novelty?