Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

All too often, companies that strive for first mover advantage bleed their products—or their entire organization—to death. Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. Good luck finding any of those products today.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I was putting together a lecture for Ken Troupe’s Sports Revenue Class and as part of the lecture, I jotted down a few pricing strategies. You aren’t paying attention to what the market might be willing to pay, meaning you likely leave money on the table. You start high and as the market evolves and changes the price drops.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

What Is a Sales Playbook? Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Strategy.

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 1, 2022

In sports the fans always think that one new player will bring a championship. In business it’s often the thought that the best product wins when it’s usually about marketing and sales. Actually, they have all the options when not tied down to a family sale. We all have misconceptions on things.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

I’m not surprised that the struggle to sell tickets in many markets was real. There was too much investment in the “V-shaped” recovery narrative and not enough in looking at what had happened in the market. This matters because ticket sales, merchandise, etc. We have economic challenges in some markets.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Last week, I discussed lessons I learned dealing with some of the largest sports’ brands in the world. 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. Understand what the market really thinks of you.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. Like I was a commissioner for a youth Lacrosse program from seven years and brought 450 families into the community of the sport that we were dealing with, and grew it from 2 teams to 24 teams. Dave Saliaris: Yeah.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. Like I was a commissioner for a youth Lacrosse program from seven years and brought 450 families into the community of the sport that we were dealing with, and grew it from 2 teams to 24 teams. Dave Saliaris: Yeah.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 13, 2021

Is the problem at hand a market-wide problem? The information about whether our competitors are experiencing the same problem has implications for whether it is an internal problem, or perhaps the entire market is shrinking. What kind of products does our customer offer and how do they differ from one another? Image: Pixabay.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

Well, we’ve reached the point where Marketing has ruined a good thing once again. We did it to social media, buyer personas, podcasting, marketing automation, Christmas, Easter, and Memorial Day. Buyer’s journey mapping has grown in importance for professional services firms as more firm solutions have become productized.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. Pride: Customers feel proud and inspired to use the company’s products and services.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Conventional wisdom suggests that marketers should emphasize the novelty of new products to get people to buy them. Despite the fact that firms spend billions of dollars on developing and marketing new products, these products face persistently high failure rates — often up to 40% to 90%, depending on the product category.

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MishTalk

JULY 15, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another "Soft Patch"? Retail sales were up 0.4% May retail sales were revised lower, to +0.5% Sales dropped 2.2

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Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2015

He says being in business is not like playing a sport or being in warfare. Even in the friendliest of work environments employee performance will be reviewed annually and productivity will be compared against other employees working at the same level. And what is marketing, if not the pure and free exchange of information.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Retail sales disappointed once again today. Last month retail sales rose 0.1%. This month retail sales rose 0.2% Once again the headline for the retail sales report understates underlying strength. Total retail sales rose only 0.2 Excluding vehicles, sales rose 0.4 Vehicle sales fell 0.4

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Regular readers know that I like to make analogies between sports and business. If you read the sports page (paper and screen) you know this. I hear it’s huge on sports talk radio, which I don’t listen to. You have to get the word out (marketing). Perhaps your equipment is outdated and not productive enough.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” ” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands.

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Peter Stark

MAY 1, 2022

In the business of sports, it’s common knowledge that you can’t consistently win without working as a united team. Our job in marketing is to get the message out. We’ve done our job, the problem is in sales and operations.” Unfortunately, some executives and managers don’t feel the same concept applies to their work.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

However, due to its rich history in the region, the firm knows the market deeper, better, and has the best government and private sector relationships. Some recent projects include issues such as global energy solutions and large international sporting events. in revenue (wow!). McKinsey & Company. McKinsey at #4?

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2017

With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. Some of them may never enter the car market, or may at least significantly delay a move toward ownership. Apple has a great intuitive feel for how consumers see a market, versus how manufacturers see it. Or a kitchen?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2016

” According to HBS professor Anita Elberse, who has studied this issue in depth, marketers’ decision making is pretty straightforward. As she explained in this interview , “Companies try to find athletes with attributes that match those of the products the athlete is asked to endorse.” And when do they backfire?

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2021

You may think it sexy to make something but if you’re a sales type with no manufacturing experience it’s probably a road to disaster. This is a contact sport; the more contacts you make the greater your chance of success and in a shorter period of time. Pay them a fair wage, have a good culture, and keep productivity high.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

He wanted to build a sports car, then build a more affordable car with zero emissions. Classic metrics like market penetration and market share, which many leaders are measured on, are the very things causing us to miss market opportunities and threats. The biggest problem is the very definition of “market.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. But one person had given him the lowest ratings possible, and from the written remarks, Lance could tell that it was Ahmed Lund, Barker’s head of sales. “You’re surprised?”

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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. He started out as a sports broadcaster for a local radio station, then landed a spot as a TV news broadcaster.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2016

But their impact on sales has been underwhelming, primarily because they ignore the needs of one key constituent: the frontline employee working to make the best possible marketing decisions day by day. Measuring Marketing Insights. Customer insight, segmentation, and behavior tracking have proliferated in recent years.

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freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

This continues through the various pathways in order to search and navigate through the website, for example 'premium best buys', 'in demand' products, fly out pictures for further visual recognition and extensive filtering options for advanced search as well as a quick search.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. They will represent the products more consistently. Previously, working in the call center was a solo sport. Every high performer needs both. The same is true for any team or organization.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

Linens ‘n Things went bankrupt, as did Circuit City, Sports Authority, and Borders. Barnes & Noble has struggled to stabilize, and former darlings of their categories including Kohl’s and Old Navy are posting negative comparable store sales. Customers no longer want anything that is mass-marketed.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

Consider that Amazon also offers free same-day delivery by 9 PM on more than 1 million items in select areas and free two-hour delivery on some products in select metro areas through its Prime Now option. Amazon will likely continue adding Prime benefits to the mix, potentially including the holy grail of entertainment: live sports.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of Hamilton , unabashedly explained that he has a fiduciary responsibility to investors to boost prices since the market has demonstrated that tickets were underpriced. Advertising like “we’ve dropped our previously bloated fixed prices” to boost sales can taint Hamilton ’s brand.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 27, 2023

The company has consistently pushed the boundaries of what is possible with EVs, starting with the Tesla Roadster in 2008, the first long-range electric sports car. This was followed by the Model X, a sport utility vehicle with falcon-wing doors, and the Model 3, a more affordable option for mass market appeal.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

Seeing an opportunity to gain greater access to the American market, OC&C merged with the Callidon Group (based in Boston) in June 2007. Depending on the size of the footprint in their region, the amount of managing partners directly correlate to the sales. Industrial Products. Practice Areas . Business Services.

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MishTalk

APRIL 15, 2017

This shift undermines the current industry business model, with its focus on engine technology and its long product cycles, and opens the market to a range of new competitors. Dealers will be less relevant as fleets make up a much bigger portion of sales. I did not count the U-Haul or Fox Motor Sports.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 22, 2016

That may require people to change the batteries, but it will also eliminate gas delivery and gas production jobs. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Bio-engineering critical to pharmaceuticals, plastics and polymers, biofuels.

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