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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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 49

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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2017

Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs. The market is pushing companies to hit incredibly high numbers, quarter after quarter and month after month. It is a vicious cycle.

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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. They don’t need to know how to do those jobs.

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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. Consultants are focused on enhancing leadership AND organizational capacity. Check out our marketing agency services, mentoring programs, and courses at [link].

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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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Tsavo Neal

OCTOBER 31, 2017

It’s holding you back from marketing, selling, and increasing your fees effectively. If you’re spending 20 hours a week on low-value tasks, that’s time you could spend on marketing your business (getting in front of buyers) and selling your services (having value discussions with buyers, and making your offer).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing. Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience.

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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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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It also highlighted that coaching is highly effective in developing leadership skills. 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.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 9, 2020

As a consultant - your role is to enhance leadership and organizational capacity. They may support implementation with advice, project management support and process leadership. Coaches on the other hand are more focused on the leaders themselves and helping them improve their personal and leadership effectiveness.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2016

In one, a star researcher said that he was leaving as there was no space for creativity anymore, as the company squeezed budgets and eliminated roles without a clear ROI. And this despite having working prototypes of devices that could have come to market as the iPhone or iPad – years before Apple invented them.

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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. It was one of the easiest sales I ever made. If you can generate a 10x ROI for your client, you can charge far more than $1500. Really, it’s a form of leadership. Stop creating Webflow websites.

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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. Design isn’t magic.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

In the past decade, content marketing has become a widely established practice. Companies have hired writers and Chief Content Officers to run departments, create blogs and other materials, and, in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling.

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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

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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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. ? ?. Partnership Marketing. Outbound Phone Marketing. Email Marketing. Partnership Marketing.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

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