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84% of B2B Sales Start with a Referral — Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. In fact, a recent survey found that connecting with a prospect now takes 18 or more phone calls, callback rates are below 1%, and only 24% of outbound sales emails are ever opened. Marketing can train salespeople in social media systems, processes, and best practices.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. Use Examples of What You Do that Relates to Their Situation ( Goal: Make your value proposition relevant to them).

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. Use Examples of What You Do that Relates to Their Situation ( Goal: Make your value proposition relevant to them).

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A Good Digital Strategy Creates a Gravitational Pull

Harvard Business

You can control what you say in an ad, sales meeting, or company memo, but when people connect peer-to-peer, you lose direct control over what is said or done. Sephora, for example, creates gravity with a mission to “Beauty Together,” and relates to their customers as artists. Each competitor has its own solar system.

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Doubling a $400,000 Revenue Model With Business Trainer Blair Enns: Podcast #22

Consulting Success

Self-described “recovering consultant” Blair Enns is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training organization for creative professionals in the design, advertising, and public relations fields. It’s a sales training organization to creative professionals. There’s an eBook. Thank you, Michael. I’m enjoying it.

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

We love the science of sociotechnical systems and love the science of helping organizations and leaders come together and realize their greatest aspirations. A lot of professional services firm get themselves into trouble when they cut up their compensation system to reward overly individualistic behaviors or reward bureaucratic behaviors.

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Thirty years of projects

Seth Godin Blog

This is way more self-referential than I''m usually comfortable with, but the combination of timing and the specifics that come from the example made me think it was worth posting a chronology. Using the 80/20 rule as a guide, I realized that the top 30 titles probably accounted for more than 95% of their sales.