Prudent Pedal

OCTOBER 8, 2019

I’m releasing a new Professional Services Marketing Assessment. Leaders who seek me out are frustrated with their marketing results. Firm leaders almost always think their “marketing problem” is a “Marketing function” problem. I’ve focused on brand problems that were really sales problems.

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IMC USA

MARCH 15, 2017

IMC USA’s Conference team has been working hard to plan the best programs and networking so that you can learn new approaches and methodologies, meet other consultants, and grow your practice. Connect, Learn, Grow at IMC USA Conference 2017! Learn more at our conference web pages. Networking. Our 2017 Conference Venue.

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Prudent Pedal

OCTOBER 15, 2019

If I were to ask chief marketing officers (CMO) at professional services firms around the world to measure their teams’ current marketing effectiveness on a scale of 1-5, I suspect that I might get a lot of 4s. The managing partner would be rated based on whether marketing had a seat at the proverbial “table.”

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Marketing Methodologies Tools Leadership 40

Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

They get super aspirational in their marketing, thinking that they will attract clients who want to create purpose-driven, people-centered organizations. For example, I did a customer assessment for one of my clients, which revealed some horrible feedback about the sales process. They get aggressive or shameless self-promot-y.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. Andy points to agile strategy as the backbone of the company’s success.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. Andy points to agile strategy as the backbone of the company’s success.

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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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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A clear consulting brand and niche is not about picking a favorite methodology and getting known for that. In fact, that's a recipe for failure over the long-term as this approach will guarantee your market positioning as an "extra pair of hands" and "trading time for money" commodity. What am I doing wrong?". But let's be real.

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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. Are you having a strategy meeting soon?

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

His consulting group focuses mainly on sales enablement and marketing, and they have been in the business since 1995. In this episode, we talk about the path that led Tony to sales and consulting, and he shares insights into creating a successful consulting firm within the corporate world. Were you in a sales role as youngster?

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

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. Your mindset still has to be one of service and value for what you bring to the table vs. letting fear and need drive your marketing.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But one of the things that may not be super clear in your mind around, what's behind a marketing agency is what we're trying to do is we're trying to take all of the pressure that you might have around growing your business and run how you find clients. Are you the surrogate leadership trap or the pair of hands trap?

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But one of the things that may not be super clear in your mind around, what's behind a marketing agency is what we're trying to do is we're trying to take all of the pressure that you might have around growing your business and run how you find clients. Are you the surrogate leadership trap or the pair of hands trap?

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Take the MIT Media Lab’s experiment to see whether it could estimate retail sales performance on “Black Friday,” the day following the US Thanksgiving holiday. Combining this with data on average spend per shopper enabled them to estimate a retailer’s sales , even before the company had recorded it themselves.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

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. Your mindset still has to be one of service and value for what you bring to the table vs. letting fear and need drive your marketing.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2023

Think of the groupthink that occurred at Kodak — successful for so many years until the market changed. If we had assessed their organizational culture at the time, our hunch is that the leaders and the overall corporate culture were not prescient or flexible enough to change with the market.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2020

And I said no, this is a different market. That's who follows – you know from a leadership perspective, even inside there might be a little bit of doubt you're going to project "yes"; we are going to be fine, we're going to be okay. Dan Weedin: Well and I bet most of your clients are experts on the methodology.

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Prudent Pedal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

If you want to be an exceptional marketer or salesperson, you have to know how to present your ideas and recommendations to executives. . Marketers blame sales, budgets or competitors’ tactics. Salespeople blame marketing and product deficiencies. READ: You Don’t Have a Marketing Problem. Speak accordingly.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

What kind of messages and leadership style are in the organization that are contributing to that output every week? Sometimes the marketing message has fallen off. So, sometimes it’s a disconnect just on that marketing plan. Why are they buying your product and not someone else’s? Why isn’t it getting out?

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). With HQ in New York, firm practices are based on the EVA methodology.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Strategy Consultants Strategy consultants for small business help your company to find it's strategic positioning in the market. They support you in making fundamental decisions regarding your product, your service, your pricing or your target market. Marketing Consultants Many marketing agencies call themselves consultants these days.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Operations Manager's is usually not as wide or as deep, focusing on a more specific task, either on methodological or functional level. The larger complexity calls for a more senior leadership position. A potential candidate must have methodological experience, e.g. has set up a process documentation for other companies before.

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Consulting Success

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Transform your failures into success in no time by implementing sales systems that will work for you. Description: Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences around the world. Without a passion for journalism, he knew he needed to make a career change and graduated into sales.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. Ron, you’ve written several books on leadership. It wasn’t like I set out to write about leadership.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. Furthermore, the predictive models created by big data methodologies do not incorporate the manager’s unique knowledge of the business. But is the pendulum starting to swing too far? .”

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Say one with $5-7 million in sales and 10-15% profit? You don’t get much management skill at that pay level, and even less leadership ability. Gary sold a wonderful business with the following features: Net profit of over 25% of sales. Growth of sales and profits every year during the recession. Real Life Story.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Methodology. This year’s index builds on the methodology of last year’s. We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. Additional geographies, including Africa, will be added in the next report, in March 2017.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire. Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. Both have advantages.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2011

Leadership. Marketing and Social Media. We take clients into the unknown all the time and we need to foster a direct experience of it ourselves. Consulting and Organizational Development. Crisis Management. Customer Service. Facilitation. Free Management Library Blogs. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Human Resources. Project Management.

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Tsavo Neal

MAY 8, 2020

Every week, I write about web design, copywriting, and digital marketing for independent consultants and small firms. All of this helps brings predictability to your marketing, making it easier to find and attract clients — and keep your business running. Here’s the formula: I help {MARKET} get {DESIRE} through {DISCIPLINE}.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB’s resurgence is further fueled by the uncertain markets hindering many companies’ efforts to attract fresh capital, as we see venture capital and private equity funds increasingly pushing ZBB on their portfolio companies, in the hope of securing a more rapid and profitable exit on their investments.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. “Tell me what interests you about this job.”

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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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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. sales force teams. Where did ZS Associates begin, and what are they known for?

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The interim president of a global packaging company’s beauty and personal care division faced mounting market pressures and obstacles, including an absence of operating mechanisms and a lack of trust among the leadership team. The senior leadership team then went through Brimstone’s Performance Leadership (PL) program.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

For us, growth events mean simply concrete, directly observable achievements that foreshadow future success: for example, new customer contracts, initial export sales, new bank or equity financings, expanded production capacity, or expanded people platforms (e.g. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales.

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