Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Dan Weedin is an author, speaker, consultant, coach, podcaster and founder of Toro Consulting , a firm that specializes in small business growth, particularly in the insurance/risk business. Dan Weedin: Well I'd been an insurance broker for pretty much all of my career. So I had been selling insurance but then I started thinking.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

Few people are in the habit of looking for a gap in the market or trying to identify an unsatisfied need. Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. Gyms and insurance companies are particularly notorious for this. We have seen this pattern repeat itself far too many times.

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Eupnea Management Consulting

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Meet Mark Costello, CEO of Hubb Interview | 14 October 2022 Follow us on Linkedin: FOLLOW Every so often there are major external events that emerge which create a new economic climate and a new range of opportunities and challenges for businesses to seize or cope with respectively. Hubb are what we classify as broker 2.0. Maybe we have.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 21, 2020

Few people are in the habit of looking for a gap in the market or trying to identify an unsatisfied need. Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. Gyms and insurance companies are particularly notorious for this. We have seen this pattern repeat itself far too many times.

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Banking Airlines Insurance Insurance 78

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Research: Remember this: Market research is a proactive activity built on developing a hypothesis of the market or asking a question that you are looking to answer. One big failure I see in branding and marketing is too much change. Understand what the market really thinks of you. Spoiler: all markets are competitive now.

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Sports Marketing Research Strategy 59

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. Here are some ways to incorporate better technology into training: Before.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2019

These asset classes can include public equities/stocks, fixed income/bonds, money markets, commodities, infrastructure, real estate and alternative strategies – including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital. As such, asset manager performance tends to be correlated with stock market performance. Franklin Resources.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 13, 2021

In a case where you have to identify potential sources of revenue growth, your analysis and conclusions will be completely different if you are looking at an insurance company or a food manufacturer. Is the problem at hand a market-wide problem? Where does the money come from if it is a software company?

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Case Interview Interviews Analysis Sports 88

Tsavo Neal

JULY 20, 2017

The show also features experts providing advice on topics such as insurance, contracts, travel, use of LinkedIn, and daily routines. Forecast by Ahmad Munawar Forecast is a show about marketing for professional services leaders. We publish two episodes per week: a core marketing lesson on Mondays and an expert interview on Thursday.

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1 to 1

MAY 2, 2013

Marketing Research Articles. Meet the Editors. Sales Effectiveness. Mobile Marketing. Sales Effectiveness. Marketing by Permission! Marketing Blog. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Creating a Seamless Multichannel Marketing Strategy. CRM Best Practices. Customer Strategy Trends.

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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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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Today the Fed released minutes of meetings at the start and during the great financial crisis. Some outside consultants presented to the Fed at that meeting, generally giving an amazingly rosy view of the world as well. January 29–30, 2008 : Meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee Mr. Reifschneider : Not all the news was bad.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

If your interviewer works with insurance companies, there's a good chance you'll get an insurance case. I looked at a bottle of water on the lunch table and said, why not give a case on bottled water - you know a market entry case for a soft drink company. I hear water sales have been growing.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2014

In turn, workers picked up extra part-time or weekend jobs with minimal hours, to help make ends meet. This is a trend that began well before the recent press release regarding health insurance for part time workers. Competition in the form of " Retail Sales Cannibalization " is intense.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

Betsy Jordyn: So what's so interesting as you describe this is that there were things that you were paid for and then there were all these other skills that you were identifying that you weren't officially paid for but you wanted to say like you know what; I wonder if these other things that I do that there's a market for that.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

JPM)’s record $13 billion deal to end probes into mortgage-bond sales may save the bank billions more because of what the agreement lacked: an explicit admission of wrongdoing. Separate agreements with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Please consider JPMorgan $13 Billion Mortgage Deal Seen as Lawsuit Shield JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

Betsy Jordyn: So what's so interesting as you describe this is that there were things that you were paid for and then there were all these other skills that you were identifying that you weren't officially paid for but you wanted to say like you know what; I wonder if these other things that I do that there's a market for that.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Starbucks offers its employees comprehensive benefits, including health insurance and stock options, as well as opportunities for professional development. Furthermore, companies may feel pressure to meet external expectations or standards, such as quarterly earnings targets or market share goals.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Although it started as a tiny group, paling in comparison to the bohemoth revenues of the firm’s hardware sales, this group is now known as IBM Global Services (IGS) which is responsible for 50% of IBM’s revenue globally. Marketing Sales & Service. Financial Markets. IGS has 5 divisions/branches.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. How did the making and marketing of drugs like OxyContin go so terribly wrong? As the Los Angeles Times recently reported , Purdue doubled its sales force when the drug launched.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Some of these adjustments are easily justifiable, such as adjusting the owner’s salary to market rate or if the seller owns the real estate and pays more than market rent. A corporation can hold their annual meeting in Hawaii in January and write it off. AAA in the world of driving a car is pretty cheap “insurance.”

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Unless you are part of the tiny portion of humanity that dotes on every utterance of the Federal Open Market Committee, you probably missed an important statement regarding the arcane world of "excess reserves" buried deep in the minutes of its Oct. 29-30 policy meeting. Banks still do not have to mark assets to market.

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Banking Small Business Insurance Insurance 67

Women in Consulting

JULY 25, 2013

Peer-to-peer Fundraising Email Marketing Website Management Website Design Payment Processing Sphere Know How Blog Sphere Knowledgebase Sphere Forum Case Central Sphere Connect Sphere Connect Partners Blackbaud Connect Partner Network Overview Partner Login. Non Profit Direct Marketing. Get the Flash Player to see this player. -->.

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1 to 1

JUNE 13, 2013

Marketing Research Articles. Meet the Editors. Sales Effectiveness. Mobile Marketing. Sales Effectiveness. Marketing by Permission! Marketing Blog. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Welcome to 1to1 Media — a multimedia resource for CRM and Customer Experience Professionals.

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Media Advertising Trends Sales 40

Women in Consulting

JULY 9, 2013

Peer-to-peer Fundraising Email Marketing Website Management Website Design Payment Processing Sphere Know How Blog Sphere Knowledgebase Sphere Forum Case Central Sphere Connect Sphere Connect Partners Blackbaud Connect Partner Network Overview Partner Login. Non Profit Direct Marketing. Get the Flash Player to see this player. -->.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

Collaborated with University Facilities, Safety & Risk, Risk Manager; ServPro; and Insurance Adjuster to plan and execute clean-up and equipment replacement. Throughout four-day visit, arrived early and left late to ensure that everything ran smoothly, including meetings, housing, transportation, and meals. Expand from U.S.

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Transportation Real Estate Financial Operations 34

Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 7, 2011

If you’re selling services to develop job descriptions for rural electric co-ops in Kansas, well your service and market are very specific — and limited. Marketing Your Organization, Product or Service. Authentic Marketing vs. Self-Promotion. When Should Consultants Buy Liability Insurance? Social Networking.

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Emerson Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Being regularly published in professional business journals and trade and industry magazines can not only boost sales and publicity for your firm, but also offer you an invaluable level of credibility. I always load my briefcase with all my published articles before going out on a sales call. So how can you go about doing it?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. It requires a broad knowledge and a high-level, big-picture understanding of the company and its markets. My group chose to examine the U.S.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

MishTalk

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In financial markets rot starts at the periphery and spreads to the core. For weeks, rot has been visible in the junk bond market and that rot has deepened sharply recently. The debt world is haunted by a specter—of a destabilizing run on markets. That is an even greater concern today given questions about bond-market liquidity.

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1 to 1

MAY 3, 2013

Marketing Research Articles. Meet the Editors. Sales Effectiveness. Mobile Marketing. Sales Effectiveness. Marketing by Permission! Marketing Blog. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Health Insurers Prepare for the Affordable Care Act. Meet the Editors. CRM Best Practices.

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QEmploy

JULY 16, 2019

For instance, you have consulting within Business Strategy, Marketing, IT, Management and so on. So what about VISA, insurance, tax registration etc.? You get the chance to meet a lot of different people. You might even grow strong ties with the people you meet, who in the future could help you with new career opportunities.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This situation exists because, believe it or not, a lot of organizations lack any mechanisms to help them actively manage the evaluation, selection, monitoring, and adjustment of digital investments to achieve clearly defined business results while meeting clear risk and return expectations. Implementation criteria.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 29, 2020

To add insult to injury, the stock market crash of October 2008 occurred, kicking off a massive global recession now known as The Great Recession. All of my prospective clients decided not to buy anything for the upcoming year, and my future pipelines of sales declined by 100%. My sales forecast for 2009 was literally $0.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Organizations need to be continually on the lookout for new market developments and competitive threats, identifying essential experts and nimbly forming and disbanding teams to help tackle those issues quickly. Yet, unfortunately progress did not match expectations. The well-connected act as bridges to and from silos.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2017

Working parenthood in and of itself presents a massive logistical and emotional challenge, and when your child is unwell, that challenge ramps up significantly: How do you explain to your boss that you can’t make it to the big sales meeting? Cancel the monthly sales trip? Take turns with your partner covering at home?

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