Clarity Consultants

MAY 26, 2023

The B2B sales world has completely changed over the last few years, and businesses all over the world are struggling to keep up. Not only are teams having to continually learn new trends and information about their products and their clientele, but the manner in which they sell is having to shift as well.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 23, 2011

These are companies that are essentially independent from product vendors. However, there are a number of companies that provide consulting or professional services as part of product companies (e.g., Improper tone for sales meetings – Product companies are often used to marketing-push type sales strategies (e.g.,

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. As a result, businesses are able to provide recommendations that simultaneously enhance customer satisfaction and increase sales revenue. For example, Amazon might collect and analyze customer data such as product purchases and demographic information.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

To succeed in sales, you must know your customer. 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. Simply put, a B2C sale takes place when your business sells a product or service directly to an end consumer.

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LSA Global

MAY 24, 2023

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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Kai Davis

MAY 30, 2020

Crafting and testing a productized offer is an iterative process. You’re going to start with your best guess, collect information and feedback through research, interviews, and conversations, and then use your findings to craft the next version of your productized offer. What goes into the scope of your offer?

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LSA Global

MAY 21, 2018

Product Training Versus Sales Training – Which Matters Most? Many of our clients who are moving from selling products to selling more complex solutions struggle with the concept of product training versus sales training. If you really want your sales team to up their game, what kind of training is most effective?

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Tsavo Neal

MAY 20, 2019

Fields in Productize Yourself, Chapter 1: Why Your Consulting Website Matters. EXAMPLE CONSULTING WEBSITE: David C. EXAMPLE: Whizard Strategy. Mark Mitchell helps building materials companies increase sales. Your consulting website is a marketing and sales vehicle. EXAMPLE: Val Geisler. It’s a win-win.

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Kai Davis

MAY 18, 2020

Crafting and testing a productized offer is an iterative process. You’re going to start with your best guess, collect information and feedback through research, interviews, and conversations, and then use your findings to craft the next version of your productized offer. Fixed timeline (e.g., Fixed scope (e.g., Why aren’t they?

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Tom Spencer

MAY 13, 2022

Consider a company operating in the retail industry, which has a large assortment of different products in its inventory and a dozen stores. Now suppose that management wants to compile a list of most sold products for each store. For example, the top sold products could differ from store to store.

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Balance Sheet Retail Sales Productivity 88

Tom Spencer

JANUARY 12, 2019

What I’m going to do in this post is to give two examples of conclusions to the same case interview: one okay conclusion and one great conclusion. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, what I would do is pause reading and look at the following link , which covers four great tips on how to improve your conclusion. Okay Conclusion.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. When I started my career, the most profitable application of force was in sales. Back in the 1990s, sales reps had a lot of information, while customers had relatively little. Sales reps leveraged that information gap to create a lot of trust.

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LSA Global

JUNE 21, 2022

Confidence in Sales Experienced sales managers know that their sales teams need competence and confidence to succeed. Sales team confidence needs to be high. Here’s a research study from our microlearning experts that we weave into our customized business sales training workshops that answers that question.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Not All Sales Leadership Scenarios Are of Equal Value Top sales leaders outperform their peers when it matters most. Knowing how to handle specific sales leadership scenarios can make the difference between sales success and failure for big deals and for sales team engagement.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

I don’t know how to do sales! Here’s an example of what I sent to prospective clients last week. Teams with higher scores on the five behaviors also received higher ratings from their leaders on producing quality deliverables, completing tasks on time, working productively together, and meeting or exceeding goals.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2023

Let’s take the example of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS are used in hundreds of thousands of products, from nonstick pans to water-repellent sports gear, to stain-resistant rugs. To accelerate your business, you need to not only be on top of these rules and regulations but also be ahead of them. If not, should it?

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Here are 7 e-commerce marketing techniques to boost your online sales. For example, you can use APIs to lower the cost of running an online shop and increase customer retention. Minimizing these costs can help e-commerce businesses retain customers during the checkout process and ultimately increase sales. Sound familiar?

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LSA Global

MAY 5, 2020

Every High Performing Sales Leader. Being a high performing sales leader is not easy. Sales leaders are responsible for building and scaling the sales team, designing meaningful compensation plans, training and onboarding new hires, and simultaneously meeting quarterly revenue and margin targets.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

Morieux gives an example of a car manufacturer that threatened to move its production engineers to the after-sales warranty department after a car went into production. The car manufacturer tried to do this by moving its production engineers to the warranty department.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 10, 2023

For example, in the financial industry, AI can be used to detect fraud, predict stock prices, and manage risk. In manufacturing, AI can be used to optimise supply chains, increase the efficiency of production processes, and predict equipment failures. Accurate Predictions AI can also help consultants to make more accurate forecasts.

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Consulting Ethics Healthcare Retail 88

LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? Are you and your sales team agile enough? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. Do you need to pivot your sales strategy or sales approach? 3 Steps to Pivot Your Sales Strategy During a Crisis.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2019

This week I’d like to address sales incentives and volume discounts. Sales incentives—for example, bonuses to meet monthly or quarterly revenue goals—cause salespeople to stuff the company’s distribution channels with inventory far in excess of consumer demand.

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MishTalk

JUNE 15, 2017

For example, the Econoday consensus estimate for the manufacturing component of industrial production was +0.2%. Today’s Industrial Production report shows manufacturing fell 0.4%. Do economists not know about poor auto sales? Overall, economists expected industrial production to be +0.2%. more…).

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 22, 2020

The data must be specific to individual brands and product lines, not the company as a whole. Is the market for the product or service growing? Product category data: What are the trends in the specific product category? For example, is the meatless meat category growing? What is the rate of growth? At what rate?

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Marketing Advertising Retail Sales 88

Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

For example, AI can quickly generate key insights from unstructured data, such as customer feedback, emails, and social media posts, using natural language processing. For example, AI could be used to analyse data, such as historical sales revenue numbers.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

In product development, line jobs contribute to the products themselves, which means they contribute to revenue. You should see SGA: Sales and General Administration—overhead. In Hiring Geeks That Fit , I categorized technical skills into these four areas: Functional skills, such as how you build or test the product.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

If you ever had a thought about a product or a vacation, and it seemed to suddenly pop up on your search page or in your email inbox, I can assure you it was based on AI (a classification algorithm) monitoring your online activity. If you’ve ever ordered an Uber, AI (a location algorithm) was used to have a car in your vicinity quickly.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

To motivate, manage, and reward B2B salespeople, many companies use sales incentive plans that link large commissions or bonuses to individual results metrics, such as territory quota achievement. The right sales incentive plan creates a double win. This made it easy to measure individual sales results.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. Work Toward the Product Organization with Team Behaviors. We like to learn.).

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2020

Determining appropriate product pricing (e.g. Prioritizing new product development efforts. Choosing specific product features. This form of segmentation is widely used since specific products often cater to individual needs relating to at least one demographic element. brick-and-mortar vs online).

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Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? Our hypothesis was that increased sales volume would be associated with increased profitability due to economies of scale. Then, we used their current income statement to calculate the average cost for each product.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

At the same time, the software company has wasted time and resources on duplicate, uncoordinated, and ineffective marketing and sales outreach. Companies need an orchestrator to ensure marketing and sales outreach is well-coordinated and aligned with customer buying needs. In some cases, the orchestrator is a computer system.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2020

Companies sell products to a broad variety of industries and customer segments, and it’s often hard to know where to focus the sales, marketing and product development efforts. They buy quickly, renew and expand their contracts, and advocate for the product. Product analytics: monthly usage, feature usage.

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1 to 1

APRIL 20, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic was a defining example of this strategy. The best sales is a student of their customer’s business so staying on top of industry trends allows you to hop on key issues right when they arrive on their doorstep. The post 3 Ways to Bring your Sales Game to the Next Level appeared first on 1to1 Media.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

Many industries have had to downsize sales forces. There are several reasons for recent sales force job cuts: Shifting market dynamics are one cause, including changing customer needs, customer consolidation, new buying channels, and slowing market growth. sales reps following an industry-wide downsizing trend.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 28, 2019

Top 4 Sales Leadership Mistakes to Avoid – Complex Sales Can Be Complicated. You have a product or solution; you find a likely prospect that appreciates your offering; you add value; and you negotiate the deal. Are your sales reps fully prepped to win? Are your sales reps fully prepped to win?

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