Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 19, 2023

Sales can take place long before the actual sale happens : You can also lose a renewal or a sale before you even realize it. You achieve this with: Brand building Showing the impact on sales/relationships from having tickets. Is that what your market wants or needs? Join the ‘Talking Tickets’ Slack Channel.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Planning out my summer trips right now, but here are a few stops along the way: The World Ticketing Conference in Nashville in July is penciled in right now. Are You Targeting the Right Part of the Market? You can segment your market generically or specifically. But it is the realm of sophisticated mass marketing.

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1 to 1

MAY 4, 2020

However, it has not changed the need for sales teams to produce results. On a recent webinar, “How to readjust and future-proof your sales,” sales growth experts from TTEC addressed prevalent questions about selling in today’s new reality and shared proven tactics, tips, and strategies. This is especially true today.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Next week, we look at the numbers that can help you create more sales opportunities in 2023. Market Research Creates Opportunities to Sell More Tickets: Organizations are in danger if they only look at data and don’t do research. These ads can help you express your strategy. To the Tickets! The Big Idea: Numbers tell a story.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Conduct Comprehensive Market Research Once you have identified your areas of interest and expertise, conduct comprehensive market research to assess the demand, competition, and market dynamics within the selected industry or niche. Navigating the entrepreneurial journey with professional assistance yields better results.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In the last 18 months working with some of the world’s biggest sports brands, I’ve done research that has taught me the importance of market research to build strong brands and grow sales. Research is one of the biggest challenges marketers face. Wide means talking to as many different people in the market as possible.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 26, 2023

From my POV: I look at the type of business model and change to the sales cycle that is necessary to actually fulfill the promise of selling out an entire season. Updated sales efforts that include better practices on opportunity creation, customer management, and selling based on value. They see an opportunity and they act.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

7 Ways to Ignite Ticket Sales!” What can you learn here and what does it teach you about your marketing and sales? INTIX posts a list of 19 trends for 2023 : This is from before this year’s conference in Seattle, but check it out. Listen to the market. Is there an untapped market of entrepreneurs?

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2016

Conference Board Consumer Survey The consumer conference board does a paper survey every month on consumer confidence. Retail Sales vs. Consumer Confidence The Fed places a lot of faith in this survey. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

We can’t always match market salaries, but we need exceptional (read: expensive) talent in order to build from scratch. We encourage our team to take time during work to develop new skills or to speak at conferences. At our company, Hatch Apps , we’ve learned to get creative.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 20, 2014

Product Refinement – A firm may engage in significant R&D and marketing prior to and during its initial product launch, but as it learns more about the product and its customers it will be able to refine the product for the requirements of the market. This may allow a firm to reduce ongoing R&D and marketing costs.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Though the firm’s background is exclusively in pricing, in more recent years it has been breaking into other practice areas such as strategy, marketing, and sales. In 1996, Simon-Kucher opened an office in Boston and began to put more of a focus on its other three practice areas: strategy, marketing, and sales.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 16, 2013

Gold Bull Paulson Cuts SPDR Stake by Half in Bear Market. Bloomberg reports Gold Bull Paulson Cuts SPDR Stake by Half in Bear Market. Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson, who told investors as recently as last month that they should own gold, cut his holdings in the metal by more than half as prices plunged into a bear market.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The conference room had an incredible view of Manhattan. I’ve never seen a conference room table so large before. The company had suffered a 40% drop in sales. I’ve only been in a Fortune 500 boardroom once. I will never forget it. The boardroom table itself was a gorgeous mahogany table that seated 60 people.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

To succeed in sales, you must know your customer. It also means being able to correctly classify your market. One of the simplest distinctions in sales is that between B2C, which stands for business-to-customer, and B2B, which stands for business-to-business. How B2C and B2B sales strategies differ.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

His consulting group focuses mainly on sales enablement and marketing, and they have been in the business since 1995. In this episode, we talk about the path that led Tony to sales and consulting, and he shares insights into creating a successful consulting firm within the corporate world. Were you in a sales role as youngster?

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). The office has a very hi-tech conference room that is used to connect with global Bainies at all levels.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2017

companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces, which is three times more than they spend on all ad media. Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms. For example, leaders sees deficiencies in most categories related to core sales tasks and sales personnel.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

They need to adapt their leadership styles, communication strategies, and performance evaluation methods to accommodate remote work. Here are ten employee focused strategies that leaders can implement to uniquely and positively managing highly productive remote work teams. Included training in team meetings. Also, do it yourself.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 30, 2014

Actual Tightening in Emerging Markets Pritchard discussed Turkey, South Africa, India, Brazil, Indonesia, and every other country that actually did tighten recently, but he never addressed the reason they had to: inflation was completely out of control in those countries, with obvious asset bubbles in many of them. Technology did not stop.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

JPM)’s record $13 billion deal to end probes into mortgage-bond sales may save the bank billions more because of what the agreement lacked: an explicit admission of wrongdoing. No Admission “We didn’t say that we acknowledge serious misrepresentation of the facts,” Lake said yesterday in a conference call with analysts. “We

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

An interesting divergence in auto production and sales came out in separate reports today. Let's start with sales. Retail Sales Rise Thanks to Autos The Bloomberg Economic Consensus for Retail Sales was for 0.3% For a second report in a row, upward revisions highlight solid growth in retail sales. percent gain.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2018

The largest producer of rice crackers in Japan, the company had $1 billion in domestic sales and hoped to kickstart growth and globalization plans. Sure, the business was chugging along, with sales increasing a modest 2% per year. “Our market research shows that consumers really like the product.”

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Steen is one of the speakers at Wine Country Conference II , May 1-2 in Sonoma, California. Economic Vacuum China’s flag is waving strongly these days, the direction of the economic- and political winds have changed but the present multitude of macro changes is yet to be recognized by consensus and the market. in 2013 after 2.2%

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1 to 1

JUNE 14, 2016

When people think of next best action marketing, they often associate it with steps that marketers can take to apply everything that's known about a customer to try to sell him or her another product or service.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 25, 2015

I spoke at a strategy conference a month or two ago, and I got there just a bit before I was due to speak and the last session was still going. It was a guy from the management consulting world talking about how companies couldn’t really deal with a strategy that looked out two or three years any more. Nigel Lake: Absolutely.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2017

With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. Some of them may never enter the car market, or may at least significantly delay a move toward ownership. Apple has a great intuitive feel for how consumers see a market, versus how manufacturers see it. Or a kitchen?

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MishTalk

AUGUST 15, 2013

and our international markets, as customers are cautious in their spending," Wal-Mart Chief Financial Officer Charles Holley said in a statement. What we see is slow steady improvement, but not at the pace we want," Mr. Chambers told analysts on a conference call. But sales were flat in the company''s original business of routing gear.

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MishTalk

JULY 28, 2015

Economists Shocked Economists were shocked by the plunge in the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index this morning, well below the any economist's guess in Bloomberg's Econoday Forecast. Survey Methodology How many people does the conference board survey each month? US consumers care about the Chinese stock market and Greece?

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Over all, online sales were up nearly 10 percent over last year by Black Friday afternoon, according to IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark. His staff split into two conference rooms. Despite years of effort, online sales still typically account for only around 2% of sales for the two chains. had matched the lower price.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 11, 2018

Start with these articles: DIY Content Marketing for Consultants. I did not buy potential increased sales (which may or may not materialize, for dozens of reasons). This confidence will permeate all of my research calls, outreach messages, and sales meetings. And when my confidence goes up, my sales usually increase.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Unfortunately, it also had some erroneous assumptions, the most blatant being he kept overhead expenses at the same percentage of sales as sales grew (for example, rent stayed at 10% of sales even when sales doubled while actual rent would have increased by CPI).

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

January 9, 2008 : Telephone Conference Meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee Staff Report : The incoming data on spending and production have, on net, led us to revise up our estimate of real GDP growth in 2007:Q4 by about 1-1/4 percentage points relative to the December Greenbook. I didn’t quite get that. House prices are soft.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Hi Mish I was thinking that margin calls would be made after today and could pull the market down further by Friday. Also your article Stock Buybacks Peaked With Stock Market in 2007: History About to Repeat? Thanks, Rob Bond Market vs. Equities Generally I stay away from short-term prognosis. That''s an even bigger move.

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Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 4, 2019

If your target market consists of multiple specific industries, spreading the good word about your service and products via industry publications can amplify and extend the reach of your marketing. Published articles are high-level sales tools. Sales of your book increase as a result.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2014

President of the Republic Niinistö says the press conference held today, Thursday, at 14. The Swiss company sold as much as 20 tons of cheese to Russia in 2013 and will increase sales to the country of the varieties most affected by the EU embargo, even though it won''t be able to meet the demand, Daetwyler said.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

For example, many large companies sponsor campus events such as conferences, speaker panels, and case competitions. In total, I worked at three different banks doing sales & trading and project management, which exposed me to a wide variety of business functions and work. Pexels: Image.

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