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More Meetings = More Clients

The Fearless Marketer

What is the purpose of marketing? The purpose of B2B marketing is to get meetings with prospective clients. What’s the difference and what does that mean for your marketing? Well, the business manager, asks others in their company, “Hey, do you know somebody good who does productivity and creativity consulting for teams?”.

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What is Project Accounting?

Progressus

Companies which are not externally project driven may use project accounting to track internal projects such as a marketing campaign, or some type of capital improvement. For project-centric companies such as consulting firms, architect and engineering firms or software publishers, the term project accounting takes on a whole new meaning.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Note that Marketing, Finance, HR, are all part of this product line. Instead, the projects used a staged-delivery life cycle , an incremental approach with cross-functional teams and monthly demos. And, we had Marketing and Customer Support people close to us. I didn’t know anything about agile approaches then.

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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

The company had deadlines because it wanted to meet market demands. Because the “teams” couldn't deliver something small, they didn't demo very often. Over months, they stopped demoing anything. Because no one saw any demos, management couldn't trust the teams to deliver. Why do you have deadlines?

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4 Factors That Predict Startup Success, and One That Doesn’t

Harvard Business

For this analysis, performance refers to the change in market valuation between the initial First Round investment and the end of 2014.) The challenge is convincing all those talented individuals seeking finance and consulting positions to take the leap into starting a new venture.