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The cost of hiring a consultant for small business in 2023

Asamby Consulting

Marketing consultants help you find and address your target group in the right channels and with the right messaging. They identify potential to improve results by looking at your numbers and comparing it to benchmarks. What makes sense: ROI The other financial metric you have to look at is your return on investment (ROI).

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. I interviewed more than 50 people from underrepresented groups who have made it in the tech industry, asking them to help me understand why they weren’t applying for my open tech jobs.

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B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

Harvard Business

By 2012, our research shows, nearly 60% of a typical B2B purchasing decision — researching solutions, ranking options, benchmarking pricing, and so on — was happening before the buyer even had a conversation with a supplier. Now think about the stakeholder group on day one and how that group had changed by day 100.

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How One Company Made Its Analytics Investment Pay Off

Harvard Business

Here we present the case of Grupo Financiero Banorte (GFNorte), a large Mexican financial group, where the analytics transformation has been a success story. Second, the ABU team is paid using variable compensation, based on projects that have been fully implemented and based on their ROI. Support from the top.

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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

Harvard Business

The company saw these findings as further evidence that continuing to invest in improving employee engagement would have a positive ROI for the business above and beyond simply having happier employees. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive.

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Track Customer Attitudes to Predict Their Behaviors

Harvard Business

There’s a similar assumption underlying much of the discussion around how to measure the return on marketing investment, where it seems to be tacitly accepted that attitudinal insights are insufficient at senior decision-making levels, and behavioral insights represent today’s benchmarks.

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6 ways to renew (and stick to!) your CX vows

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Qualitative research methods—such as customer interviews, focus groups, and even ride-a-longs—can help collect insights directly from the customer. 3 questions to ask during this step: What metrics will you use to benchmark and improve the customer experience? There are many ways to begin measuring your CX program.

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