Sat.Sep 05, 2020

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5 Biggest Differences Between B2B and B2C Sales Strategies

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 5 minutes. To succeed in sales, you must know your customer. This means understanding their wants and needs, habits, values, and anything else that can help you close the deal. It also means being able to correctly classify your market. Selling a high-tech piece of equipment to a large corporation can be very different from selling a trendy pair of jeans to a teenager.

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Charlie Munger & Mental Models

CaseInterview.com

Warren Buffett’s right-hand man is Charlie Munger. I’ve read transcripts from several of Munger’s speeches, and I really love the multidisciplinary way he approaches investment decisions. When he cites the idea of market niches as a way to build a durable competitive advantage, he borrows that concept from the field of ecology. In nature, it’s not the species with the greatest population that survives.

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Mental Models: Building Blocks for Strategic Decisions

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 5 minutes. What are Mental Models? Becoming a better thinker requires you to understand the way you think, how you view the world, and developing a way of approaching problems that allows you to see things through multiple lenses. We refer to these lenses as ‘mental models’. Mental models are tools for the mind that are built on the foundations of physics, biology, math, psychology, as well as history and economics.

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Consultant Marketing Trepidation To Elation

Jerry Fletcher

Lindsay joined the local chapter. I welcomed her by e-mail. She is a newbie in multiple ways: A new college graduate A new MBA A new member of IMC (Institute of Management Consultants) A wannabe consultant. We’ll be Zooming next week because she has that innate need to find out how this business works and what it takes to be successful. She already operates on one of the basic principles she will need to be successful: Trust but Verify.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Earned crankiness

Seth Godin Blog

When an adult chooses to be cranky, it’s much juicier when it’s accompanied by a feeling of entitlement. If we know that we deserve the chance to be angry and disappointed, that we’ve earned it, then we can explore the feeling with vigor. No need to worry about whether we’re being self-indulgent, we can go full throttle because it’s our due.

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