Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A higher ratio of fee income implies less traditional credit risk and less balance sheet usage (therefore higher ROE) but also implies greater market risk related to securities portfolios and potentially higher revenue volatility related to volatility in capital markets. Valuation Metrics Price-to-earnings (P/E) Price-to-book (P/B) 2.1

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2020

These feelings are particularly acute for both new and seasoned consulting and coaching business owners which in comparison to other business owners, growing to the next level is personal because your business is based on you. But this is not a profitable strategy if you want to join a professional association to find clients.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

JUNE 4, 2023

No matter their role, every member of the group must be willing to discuss the overall pricing strategy requirements well before the RFP release. Perform market research and gather historical data on your teammates. Comparison with what you expect regarding the target prices we discussed above is crucial to achieving the best prices.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 1, 2023

I read this piece in the NY Times today about comparison shopping for college students. A key here is that you can see commodity’s have wild price swings like on the secondary market for tickets around hot games, the sneaker sales on StockX, or crypto was a good example for a while. Let’s start with a graphic. Discounting.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 11, 2014

Walmart, McDonalds Comparison To be fair, there is a major difference between McDonalds'' employees and Spaniards seeking jobs. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. The McDonalds'' employees demanding higher wages have jobs.

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Women in Consulting

MAY 4, 2015

Spiceworks (www.spiceworks.com), a social network that connects marketers with IT buyers, recently held an “Unplugged” panel discussion in Mountain View, CA in which three IT professionals shared what they want from marketers. Translated: They do not want to be bothered by marketing or salespeople until they are ready to engage.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2020

Companies sell products to a broad variety of industries and customer segments, and it’s often hard to know where to focus the sales, marketing and product development efforts. Within your target market, there will be customers that are “ideal” you. Product-market fit. Addressable market. Salesforce (i.e.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Often, the e-commerce website is part of the issue, optimization of it, marketing and advertising efforts, or sales. Selling online is often a combination of the website, marketing, advertising, and sales efforts. In comparison to brick and mortar type of companies, it is much less demanding. It is a better way to go about it.

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Figure out your market rate. This is your market rate. I said I could do an assessment, strategy, and plan in three to four weeks and my rate was $225 an hour. Remember, even your higher rate will be cheaper in comparison.) Or do they need someone to assess, submit recommendations, and/or create the strategy?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Then, just days after receiving the quote, the manager gets an unsolicited email from the software company’s marketing team offering a better deal. At the same time, the software company has wasted time and resources on duplicate, uncoordinated, and ineffective marketing and sales outreach.

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Kai Davis

JULY 20, 2021

To start, let’s say that Tiny Nibble has specialized and niched down on a specific market and expensive problem. With that, they’ve: Picked a specific target market to focus on. Succeed in their market? After all, what’s to stop one of Tiny Nibble’s competitors from: Picking the same market.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

One, customer acquistion cost of streaming is high, estimated at about $200 by Marketing Brew. And, if I could come up with an apples to apple comparison, I’d guess we would see that the Premier League is also more popular than MLB. all cover sports as a foundational aspect of their community.

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The Fearless Marketer

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

So, I believe that the baseline for marketing all professional services and programs is to be honest and to communicate the context of your claims. Dishonest marketing also uses measurements and stories, but they are based on lies or a manipulation of the conditions. Honest Persuasion Strategies. Comparison. Affiliation.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Most corporate strategists focus on finding ways to win in the market — that is, they look for sources of competitive advantage based on the customers they serve, the products they sell, the suppliers they use, and so on. But they tend to overlook their nonmarket strategy. This is a mistake; trade measures can be game-changers.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. We then classified companies based on the digital strategy they were pursuing. To do so, we outlined six digital strategies.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? By comparison, rivals Amazon and Wal-Mart have continuously adapted and maintain a significant competitive advantage in pricing these products due to scale. What strategy can be implemented to save the company?

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Martinka Consulting

MAY 26, 2022

but wouldn’t a better metric be the comparison of incidents with and without the cameras? What percentage of your time is billable versus marketing, administration, collaboration, and similar? That’s great but is it the right metric? I’m all in favor of school zone speed limits, fining people who exceed those limits, etc.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Please consider The Dollar on the Interbank Market was Fixed at Around 33.5/USD. Hryvnia exchange rate on the interbank foreign exchange market trading results on Tuesday, February 24, fell to 33.5 At the beginning of 2015 the hryvnia on the interbank market was about 19,00 UAH / USD. The top value today reached 33.80

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

A radical demographic shift is transforming the nature of consumer markets. Marketing savvy just isn’t enough to track these consumers. In comparison, European millennials, for instance, will contribute less than 2%. The consumer markets that matter have arguably never been more varied and complex.

Marketing 28

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 5, 2019

Say for example you’re working on a case where a client is considering entering a European market for dental floss and over the course of the case you find that the potential market there is very large. One supporting statement could be that “The market opportunity is huge and is really attractive for the client”.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Projects have ranged from database management and data survey to impact assessment and market research. PMs also work directly with the industry and community partners, requiring slightly more of a time commitment in comparison to the innovators.

Consulting 88

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy. In comparison, Walmart.com sells “only” 15 million items — and just 2 million of them are available for the free two-day shipping. Lore himself described free shipping as table stakes.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 16, 2017

One of my favorite stories of how a buyer fixed a company is about when he raised prices about 25%, because he knew the company was severely under market (and no customers left or even complained). Amazon’s strategy will no doubt work. The best strategy is to get a customer because if you do what you’re supposed to do you’ll keep them.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

BLS Unemployment Rate Not Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment Rate Comparison BLS: 7.0% Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' Thus, the 1.9

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 12, 2019

Here's my comparison of consulting in a Big 4 Accounting firm and at BCG (note from Victor while this readers experience is specific to BCG it can. Perhaps in my case it is also caused by working in a developed (Big 4) vs. developing (BCG) market, but I had to work more than double the number. apply to McKinsey and Bain as well).

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

– and perhaps more importantly, you will have firsthand experience in business strategy. . Size its market. Next, analyze the data and develop actionable strategies to improve the business. For more on this book, see our Lords of Strategy Book Review. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy. The McKinsey Way.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 9, 2016

The Internet and digital tools such as advanced search engines, review sites, price comparison apps, and social media platforms have changed how consumers make purchasing decisions. It's imperative for customer-facing companies of all types to engage in active dialogue and incorporate and process feedback as part of their business strategy.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 31, 2022

In 2022, 70% of consumers opted in to receive texts from businesses, according to SimpleTexting’s 2022 Texting & SMS Marketing Report , yet just 55% of business owners and digital marketers texted their customers. Have a messaging strategy. This is a shift brands should be paying attention to, said Coppelman.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 28, 2014

For comparison purposes, the yield on 10-Year US notes is 2.25%. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In comparison, let's say you lift a weight 6 times comfortably, but the 7th and 8th repetitions are very uncomfortable. Once I understood how to do market entry strategy, they had me do sales force performance optimization. Once I grasped how to do that, they had me do human resources strategy. The reason why?

McKinsey 68

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MishTalk

MAY 18, 2014

This post shows the first set, a comparison of April 2008 to April 2014. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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Tom Spencer

JULY 16, 2015

It can help to assess the business situation in the context of entering a new market, M&A, product development, and starting a new business. How big is the market? How fast is the market growing? What is the concentration of customers in the market relative to the concentration of firms? Competitive Strategy.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

However, I will suggest that many such comparisons that I have seen are invalid. Thus, all such comparisons are totally invalid. Easy Comparisons. Gasoline is also an easy comparison. However, it''s important to make sure the comparisons are valid (unlike my bread example). Keep up the good work, Mel. Hello Mel.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

An alarming credit boom in China could trigger a global financial crisis that would make the one in 2008 look mild by comparison, says old gloomy eyes, Marc Faber. “If Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. It Can''t Be Done.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Case Shiller 20-City Index Year-over-year comparisons have held stable at 5% in spite of month-over-month declining prices because of easy comparisons. Year-over-year comparisons will be increasingly difficult in the upcoming months.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 24, 2019

I’ve said for years small to lower middle-market companies need the adult supervision only an owner can provide. Finally, unless the business is large enough to attract a strategic buyer the market is limited, at least at the price the owner(s) want (based on the company’s earnings). It is a state of comparison.”

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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Customer comments are also helpful for retailers themselves to understand their market better – fashion chain Zara for instance has been tweaking products in response to customer reviews by sending the comments straight to the manufacturer. Comparison websites. We all like a good bargain. Payment Apps. Social media incentives.

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