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Important Sales Benchmark for Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

Based on data collected from lead generation firms and shared with us by hundreds of consulting firms, one sales benchmark, in particular, warrants your attention: the likelihood of cold, outbound lead generation (or, similarly, advertising) to result in a project for your consulting firm.

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Why Your Organization Should Use Salary Benchmarking

Harvard Business

A key solution lies in salary benchmarking — using aggregated market data to establish competitive pay rates. payroll processing company revealed that access to robust benchmarking tools doubled the probability of firms setting the “right” salary. That means employers must find new ways to determine appropriate compensation.

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The Benchmark That Builds Consulting Businesses

David A Fields

Consultants often look at benchmarks to gauge their recent performance. Those are internal benchmarks. [ Many readers know that I’m 6’1″ tall… if my posture is perfect, I think tall thoughts and I stand on two tins of homemade, coconut dream bars. Is that tall? [ ]

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3 Benchmarks to Help with Consulting Growth

Management and IT Consulting

Service Performance Insight looks at benchmarks in these three key areas as a good place to start, in preparation for growth this year and beyond. COVID appears to be slowing down, and now professional services executives must reassess their entire organizations to prepare for the future.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

Database benchmarks for education and resource prioritization. Insights detailed within this report include: Tools marketers are using to gain deeper intelligence on current and prospective customers for better targeting and messaging. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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Walking the Walk & Talking the Talk of Equity Benchmarking

UPD Consulting

Analyzing equity benchmarks across a wide range of topics (i.e., The wealth of open data has placed public sector organizations in an excellent position to sponsor and coordinate more intensive, wide ranging equity benchmarking and indexing activities.

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The Benchmarking Journey--A Path to Guaranteed Performance Improvement

Management and IT Consulting

Read this blog post to learn tips about starting or perfecting your consulting benchmarking practice. It is important to celebrate your wins, but you know it is just as important to the success of your company to look more closely at why you won, and how.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature.