LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

What Is a Sales Playbook? Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Strategy. Sales Culture.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 14, 2018

High Performance Sales Needs High Performance Sales Planning. If you want better sales performance, you need better sales planning. The goal for most sales teams is pretty straightforward – grow profitable sales. It takes a clear go to market sales strategy combined with a sales plan to make it happen.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Buzzsprout

MARCH 28, 2024

It's an excellent time to learn how to harness this medium whether you're a podcaster selling ad space, or a brand looking to promote your product. In this blog, we'll break down everything you need to know about podcast advertising and show you how to leverage different types of podcast ads for optimal results.

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SkillQuo

AUGUST 31, 2017

For any business to grow, this growth is determined by the products that the business is selling and the need that these commodities are assuaging for the customers. By doing this analysis, you can make services or products suggestions to fit within their specified segment and send out personalized advertisements or messages.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Tracking your sales team's sales performance is an example of gathering performance data. Publishing every salesperson’s revenue production for the day in a place where everyone in the sales department can see it is a feedback loop (combined with peer pressure). That’s a feedback loop.

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LSA Global

JUNE 18, 2020

For those struggling with how to stand apart from the pack, the encouraging news is that Gartner Research reports that over 50 percent of customer loyalty is driven by how you sell – more than the impact of your brand, product, service, and price combined. The Sales Challenge. Let’s start with the current state of sales.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 12, 2022

Read in this blog post what the best time is to bring this position in. There are COOs that just focus in manufacturing, others oversee everything except sales. Check out our blog post on the difference between the two profiles here. That could be overseeing service delivery or manufacturing and distribution of your product.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. I hope you found this blog post interesting.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 23, 2020

It’s important to be constantly monitoring key performance metrics so you can tell what’s going on in your business quantitatively. Yes, the metrics say they are happy but are they really actually happy?) If sales and retention are on target, but you have no cash left in the bank, something is wrong. Talk to customers.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Yet only two-thirds of the Fortune 500 (66%) are using YouTube, under half are on Instagram (45%), just over one-third (36%) have corporate blogs, and one-third (33%) are on Pinterest. For example, research has found that 93% of Pinterest users plan purchases on the platform and 87% have made a purchase after seeing a product they liked.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Rolling Stones have grossed more than a billion dollars in ticket sales and endorsements. Does that mean that they're 1,000 times more important or productive or worthwhile? Money is a simple metric, and one that captures a certain sort of information about value and scarcity. Popular is the not the same as worthwhile.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2018

Jenny Dearborn Data Driven: How Performance Analytics Delivers Extraordinary Sales Results. Congratulations to LSA Client, Jenny Dearborn, the Executive Vice President, Human Resources at SAP, for publishing her book: Data Driven: How Performance Analytics Delivers Extraordinary Sales Results. Realistic and Actionable.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2023

merging with another company, opening up a new sales territory , or launching a new product), the faster you can execute the strategy, the more likely you are to stay ahead of the competition. Goals, success metrics, roles, responsibilities, scope, and interdependencies for each stream of work is known and committed to.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 17, 2016

A well-designed organization structure brings management attention to the nodes where value and capabilities are created—the intersection of customers, brands, products, emerging markets, functional expertise, and other strategic choices. Often, rewarded complexity is a result of making things simpler or more compelling for customers.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Large companies deal on a global level with multiple divisions producing a variety of products. It is increasingly difficult to get the right product to the right customer at the right time at the right price. Develop clear success metrics to track progress toward strategic goals. Varied Buy-In.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2017

To better understand what A/B testing is, where it originated, and how to use it, I spoke with Kaiser Fung, who founded the applied analytics program at Columbia University and is author of Junk Charts , a blog devoted to the critical examination of data and graphics in the mass media. Or buy our product? What Is A/B Testing?

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1 to 1

JUNE 11, 2013

Sales Effectiveness. The 1to1 Blog. Strategy Speaks Blog. Sales Effectiveness. Hard Knox Life: A Brand Manager Blog. Marketing Blog. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Allegiance Blog. Eloqua Blog. FreshNetworks Blog. FreshNetworks Blog. Marketo Blog. MarketTools Blog.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Unfortunately, all based upon good intentions, the project scope grew to eventually touch every product line, over 50 SKU’s, all packaging, every graphic, and all messaging across their entire portfolio. The client mentioned above made so many changes that they were unable to correlate what caused the major drop in sales velocity.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

That said, methods like “Website” and “Blogging” are rather vague terms. That said, methods like “Website” and “Blogging” are rather vague terms. Can you simply set up a consulting website and start blogging and see an influx of leads for your consulting business? Email Marketing.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

If we think hard about the definition of 'better', it's pretty clear that on almost every measurable performance metric, the Honda is a far better car. So, which is more interesting: A vintage 1964 Porsche or a new Honda Civic? Which is a better car? More reliable. A better value. Able to drive faster, longer, in more conditions.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

Make the sale, cut your costs, move on. That means that unhappy news spreads far and fast (and that remarkable products and services need lower ad budgets). The thing is, a customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is. The traveling salesman, the carnival barker and the old-time businessman can hit and run.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 11, 2010

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. To Subscribe to a Blog. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Recent Blog Posts. Librarys Blogs. Free Management Library Blogs.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

The transactional layer can be found in most products and services. What is critical is the emotional layer , the features of a product or service that tap into the fundamental, and under-the-surface, motivations and emotions of customers. To gain it, you need a group of users who love your product. They were its 100 lovers.

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LSA Global

JULY 20, 2017

Other leaders believe success metrics must be set low enough so that people can consistently exceed expectations without setting themselves up to fail. Ultra-stretch goals may work for some super-charged salespeople but, in the final analysis, they are counter-productive. We believe that both sets of leaders are wrong.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

So, if in a profitability case, I explore cost and sales. Why are customers willing to pay so much more for the client's product, but not anyone else's? A business metric is only unusual if you don't understand the business. and determine costs are not the cause, then I tend to stop trying to remember cost information.

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LSA Global

APRIL 19, 2019

High Performing Sales Team. How would you describe the performance of your sales team? What Does It Take to be a High Performing Sales Team? Of course, you first need a competitive solution to sell and a team with the baseline sales skills to connect with your target buyers. 4 Essentials for a High Performing Sales Team.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

Companies have hired writers and Chief Content Officers to run departments, create blogs and other materials, and, in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling. If initially engaged, a prospect reading a piece on Wednesday often returns for a longer visit on the weekend.

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LSA Global

APRIL 16, 2021

A Sales Leader’s Dilemma – Top Ways to Grow Revenue There are only so many actions available to a sales leader to profitably grow revenue. The art is identifying, agreeing to, and committing to top ways to grow revenue for you and your sales team. Which sales growth lever should you pull?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Shared Goals Across Functions Can Help Break Down Functional Silos Traditionally, most employees are organized by expertise, department, or location to pursue isolated and specialized objectives — e.g., sales, marketing, finance, design, production, and so on.

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