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Top Trends in US Business Startups

Business Consulting Agency

E-commerce and Online Retail : Facts : E-commerce continues its rapid growth, accounting for a significant portion of retail sales. In 2021, US e-commerce sales surged to $933.3 Statistics : The US Census Bureau reports that online sales constituted 16.1%

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Case Study: A Founder Steps Back from Her Start-Up

Harvard Business

She’d hoped to escape from work for the morning, but as the founder and CEO of 2 Proud Pups, a maker of all-natural dog care products, she didn’t have much free time. Existing products had touted their cleaning power, but their ingredient lists were long and full of nasty-sounding chemicals that irritated the dogs’ skin.

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30 Best Consultant Websites & Why They Have Them (2022)

Tsavo Neal

I’m busy working and I want to spend my time working on client sites. For me, I can pick up the phone and my sales process from that point onwards is about qualification and some negotiation, but you’ve got to start with lead generation. In fact, my website is my secret 24/7 sales agent. My site has a lot of videos.

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The Deep Flaw in MBB Strategic Planning

CaseInterview.com

As you might know, Motorola eventually dominated the pre-smartphone mobile phone market with close to $10 billion in annual sales. In my consulting practice today, I exclusively serve small businesses — some as small as $500,000 a year in sales up to $15 million typically (sometimes up to $300 million).

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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.” A professional design makes reading all of your content — publications, posts, case studies, etc — easier to read and more enjoyable.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. A new CEO was quickly able to help his team see they were victims of too much emphasis on global business units. PepsiCo is also a case study in the vertical health of the organization: getting to the right number of layers.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

Even if you don’t need to know a lot about finance to do your day-to-day job, the more conversant you are on the subject, the better off you’ll be, according to Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. “People think budgets are static.

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