Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing. As alarming as those numbers are, they shouldn’t come as a surprise if you consider how sales training is usually conducted. They don’t need to know how to do those jobs.

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Buzzsprout

MARCH 28, 2024

It's an excellent time to learn how to harness this medium whether you're a podcaster selling ad space, or a brand looking to promote your product. In this blog, we'll break down everything you need to know about podcast advertising and show you how to leverage different types of podcast ads for optimal results.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2021

Your heart won't be in it, and your clients will know that you are trying to land them for the sale and not out of a heart of service. The easiest way to know the difference between these two models is who will be paying you - the organization or the individual and the expected ROI. How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 31, 2022

Unengaged employees are less productive and lose companies billions of dollars in lost sales, poor customer service and inferior quality. Research by the Jackson ROI Study proclaims that the more genuine recognition you give to employees the greater the impact on the bottom-line. 1 It is about your team; it is not about you!

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Few enterprise tools have the potential to revolutionize daily operations and help businesses achieve best-case ROIs like a CRM. Calculating the ROI of your CRM investment is not always as straightforward. How to calculate the ROI of your CRM investment. What was the expected ROI?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 26, 2018

I’m working with a client right now who does high-end sales training. In the course of our conversations, he mentioned that 82% of his clients got a 10:1 ROI on their training investment. Instead, the home page of his site mentioned general ideas about the value of their sales training. A clear marketing advantage.

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1 to 1

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After years of immense growth, there are signs of economic headwinds across industries , with higher interest rates, stock market declines, pandemic challenges, labor shortages, global political instability, and more. And when ROI is scarce, nimble firms with their finger directly on the pulse of customer demand win.

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Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This blog post gives you the comprehensive answer: Why compensation is important How to structure your fixed salary components What options for variable pay are there How to pick the right perks and benefits What allowances are and what to pay them for What long-term incentives are out there How strategy and finance influence compensation Let's go!

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Prudent Pedal

MARCH 27, 2020

Optimize inbound conversion rates on marketing channels-While CRO is a never-ending exercise, this hiatus allows time to experiment more with updated content, the mix, and its messaging. I hope to complete The Practice Leader’s Guide to Growth and The Prudent Firm’s Guide to Transforming Professional Service Marketing. More good stuff.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

For instance, in Marketing, data is being used to calculate ROI on marketing campaigns, or come up with new pricing strategies based on A/B testing of campaigns which helps marketing and managers bring in more revenue, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MAY 10, 2010

I like this part of the book particularly because it starts to weave together marketing, branding, social technologies, and the fringes of innovation. Benefits & ROI – For those that have read Groundswell , this part is similar in that it covers some qualitative and quantitative models for using social technologies.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2021

Your heart won't be in it, and your clients will know that you are trying to land them for the sale and not out of a heart of service. The easiest way to know the difference between these two models is who will be paying you - the organization or the individual and the expected ROI. It knows how to survive in hard places.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. They’re easing customers’ burdens by guiding them through difficult decisions and choices, and improving win rates for high-end solution sales by as much as 60%. Fast forward to today.

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Tsavo Neal

OCTOBER 31, 2017

His latest book, The Elite Consulting Mind: 16 Proven Mindsets to Attract More Clients, Increase Your Income and Achieve Meaningful Success is a treasure-trove of information on how to build a successful consulting business. It’s holding you back from marketing, selling, and increasing your fees effectively. It always does.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities. They’re also engaging customers in new, value-driven ways.

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Tsavo Neal

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Like all your other marketing material, your website exists for one reason: To generate leads for your business. Once they do, your email marketing software automatically sends them your lead magnet. Your email marketing software compiles all lead information into a list. Leads are the lifeblood of consulting businesses.

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Tsavo Neal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Like all your other marketing material, your website exists for one reason: To generate leads for your business. Once they do, your email marketing software automatically sends them your lead magnet. Your email marketing software compiles all lead information into a list. Leads are the lifeblood of consulting businesses.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets. William Andrew/Getty Images.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 24, 2020

The question that I wished that asked instead is "How do I predictably get consulting clients so I never had to ask this question EVER again?". Forget one-off marketing tactics that give you hit or miss results. Instead building a marketing system that puts your client attraction on autopilot.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” Finally, the CMO began insisting that marketing deliver greater financial accountability.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JULY 31, 2018

If you want to be respected as a “thoughtleader” and if you especially want to add speaking engagements to your marketing repertoire, you must consider writing and publishing a book. The credential of book authorship–despite the rise of social media, YouTube, and Internet marketing–holds no equal.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

There’s a similar assumption underlying much of the discussion around how to measure the return on marketing investment, where it seems to be tacitly accepted that attitudinal insights are insufficient at senior decision-making levels, and behavioral insights represent today’s benchmarks.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

But, how you present yourself is critical for marketing and selling your services. This is more than how you dress — it’s your office, your marketing material, your brand — and yes, your website. This article lists relevant website and digital marketing statistics for consultants.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 31, 2020

But I’d also bet that your sales skills (and confidence) aren’t good enough to charge $1500+ for a website. I didn’t sell it to the client by raving about how pretty my websites were. It was one of the easiest sales I ever made. Because I didn’t talk about how good I was at creating websites. Yes, you read that right.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) and the Human Capital Institute (HCI): Studies have shown that coaching programs yield a positive return on investment (ROI), with estimates of ROI ranging from 5:1 to 7:1 or even higher. They wanted to improve sales to existing customers. Branch leaders scheduled weekly training meetings.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 9, 2020

You help your clients by providing an independent point of view on the root causes to organizational challenges, recommending solutions to resolve those challenges and facilitating leaders to come to agreement on how to they will work together to implement those solutions. Don't settle for anything less than your true potential.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Sales venue. These solutions are new to market and some of them may not be included in the standard offerings of your health insurer or third-party administrator. Choose providers that focus on bottom-level metrics like ROI and health care spend; avoid providers that focus on top-level metrics like engagement. Integration.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. And the sales team — well, they mostly hated it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

By Brian Selby, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations, Tableau Software. How often is your sales team making important decisions based on gut feel? Are your sales resources allocated properly to drive growth? Historically, sales has been labeled an art. Why does this happen in so many companies?

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

After discussing Jacobi’s sales woes, Shani, suggested he try out Albert, Adgorithm’s AI-driven marketing platform. It works across digital channels, like Facebook and Google, to measure, and then autonomously optimize, the outcomes of marketing campaigns. How did it do that? AI at Work.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

All businesses, regardless of industry, have become what I call O2O businesses—their primary marketing objectives are focused on driving people online to drive them offline. Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ? ?. Watch the 2 minute video above to learn how to use this list of consulting lead generation methods effectively!).

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 24, 2017

Love them or hate them, case studies make up some of your most important marketing materials as a consultant. Inspiration is the primary role of our website, our brochure, our sales collateral and our in-person portfolio review. Learn how to tell stories through your case studies that make your prospects want to work with you.

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