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What To Do When a Sales Prospect Says No

LSA Global

When a Sales Prospect Says No Most sales managers teach their salespeople to be persistent. However, salespeople are human, and when a sales prospect says no — to a sales meeting , to a demo, or to the sale itself — they may be tempted to think that “no means no” and stop or delay pursuing their ideal target client.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. Instead of organizing by function, consider a product-oriented organization. Again, I am not saying this is the only way a product organization would look, but this is a possibility. What do you do?

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Consultant Marketing Brand Sound

Jerry Fletcher

It was good to hear how the little golf product company he founded was doing. He had worked through and solved his production problems in way that turned out to be scalable. He was handling fulfillment personally pulling, assembling, packaging and shipping product on an as needed basis. What does the product get the buyer?

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Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team

Harvard Business

“What gets measured gets managed” is a longstanding business aphorism. But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. The result is poor management of what matters. Deconstruct Your Sales Funnel.

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When Sales and Marketing Aren’t Aligned, Both Suffer

Harvard Business

A new product line had failed, and the company believed the problem was either poor product delivery times or lack of effort by the sales force. After throwing millions at both problems, they finally realized what the real issue was: misaligned goals between marketing and sales. This company isn’t alone.

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Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation

Johanna Rothman

Let's assume everyone works together, on one project (product, if you prefer). So, let's assume the team spends a total of 4 hours planning, retrospecting, demoing, all that non-creation time out of the 40 hours the team works. I would add demoing in as value creation, but I'm not sure how accountants categorize feedback loops.

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What is Project Accounting?

Progressus

The functionality necessary to complete these project management processes is simply not accessible from a simple General Ledger (GL) only. Additionally, the time needed to reconcile spreadsheets to both the GL and project reporting negatively affects productivity which in turn risks profitability. Gain real-time visibility into costs.