LSA Global

APRIL 10, 2020

High performing B2B social sellers build relationships on digital platforms and turn online connections into offline sales conversations and long-term customer relationships. LinkedIn’s recent State of Sales report found that 62% of B2B decision makers look for an informative LinkedIn profile when considering talking with a sales rep.

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LSA Global

MARCH 15, 2020

Every Sales Team Would Like to Convert Sales Leads Faster. Your sales conversion rate measures the effectiveness of your sales team at turning sales leads into new customers. It measures how often your sales reps are turning prospects into real business. New sales leads grow cold surprisingly fast.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Are Sales and Marketing at Odds? Your ability and commitment to align sales and marketing matters. Misaligned goals, roles, scope, or success metrics between sales and marketing can greatly inhibit revenue growth, profitability, customer satisfaction, and employee engagement. 5 Steps to Better Align Sales and Marketing.

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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. Sales Culture.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Start a New Sales Territory. Being asked to start a new sales territory is often full of opportunities and challenges. Successfully ramping up and running a new sales territory is a big responsibility that could make or break your career and your sales team’s ability to meet its targets. Territory Success Metrics.

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Session 2: Metrics vs Strategy. Input metrics are essential as these metrics are leading indicators of your eventual output metrics and results achievement. They have a significant tendency to focus on outcome metrics instead of their company strategy. Learn more about Session 1 and register here: [link].

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LSA Global

AUGUST 14, 2018

High Performance Sales Needs High Performance Sales Planning. If you want better sales performance, you need better sales planning. The goal for most sales teams is pretty straightforward – grow profitable sales. It takes a clear go to market sales strategy combined with a sales plan to make it happen.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

By establishing a clear understanding of expectations and success metrics, your organization can ensure that everyone is working towards a common goal and contributing to the overall success of the organization. Are you having a strategy meeting soon? For example, let's say your organization's goal is to increase revenue.

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LSA Global

APRIL 19, 2019

High Performing Sales Team. How would you describe the performance of your sales team? What Does It Take to be a High Performing Sales Team? Of course, you first need a competitive solution to sell and a team with the baseline sales skills to connect with your target buyers. 4 Essentials for a High Performing Sales Team.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. In fact, a recent survey found that connecting with a prospect now takes 18 or more phone calls, callback rates are below 1%, and only 24% of outbound sales emails are ever opened. Why are more and more buyers avoiding salespeople during the buying process?

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2020

Why Social Selling Training Programs Fail to Grow the Sales Pipeline. When done right, curated online relationships should turn into more meaningful and more qualified sales conversations. Recent IDC research found that: 75% of the B2B Buyers use social media to inform and support purchase decisions. Lack of Sales Coaching.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles. At the highest level, Workplace Analytics can provide a factual foundation for decisions on sales structure and roles.

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LSA Global

JUNE 18, 2020

For those struggling with how to stand apart from the pack, the encouraging news is that Gartner Research reports that over 50 percent of customer loyalty is driven by how you sell – more than the impact of your brand, product, service, and price combined. The Sales Challenge. Let’s start with the current state of sales.

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LSA Global

APRIL 16, 2021

A Sales Leader’s Dilemma – Top Ways to Grow Revenue There are only so many actions available to a sales leader to profitably grow revenue. The art is identifying, agreeing to, and committing to top ways to grow revenue for you and your sales team. Which sales growth lever should you pull?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 1, 2020

What can you say that will gain an executive’s interest enough that you earn more time or, better yet, a follow-up meeting? Before you even begin, however, you need to do your pre-call sales planning and research – as much research as if you had several hours scheduled to make your pitch. Metrics matter.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2023

But our organizational alignment research found that the majority of companies do not demonstrate enough strategic speed to meet their own growth goals. Goals, success metrics, roles, responsibilities, scope, and interdependencies for each stream of work is known and committed to.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Research has shown that organizations with servant leaders have higher levels of employee engagement, lower turnover rates, and higher levels of customer satisfaction. Furthermore, companies may feel pressure to meet external expectations or standards, such as quarterly earnings targets or market share goals.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

According to our research , over 60% of reported attacks on publicly traded U.S. Our research suggests that many procurement professionals do not consider vendors’ cybersecurity capabilities to be an important factor in selecting or developing top-tier suppliers. Tim Robberts/Getty Images. They should be.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 21, 2023

The High Payoff of Employee Recognition Research shows employees with little, or no recognition exhibit decreased job satisfaction, higher turnover, lower productivity and engagement, and greater stress or burnout. For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. We thought they could do more.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

For example, research has found that 93% of Pinterest users plan purchases on the platform and 87% have made a purchase after seeing a product they liked. Instagram has played an integral role in helping to lift sales for brands including Gatorade. Stories that evoke emotion tend to perform better than straight sales messages.

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LSA Global

JULY 21, 2017

Yes, we understand the performance pressure on CEOs and their teams to meet quarterly targets. They see anything else as a failure to meet ever-increasing expectations. Based upon our organizational alignment research , we also know that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing organizations.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Customers expect digital experiences to meet a certain standard — it doesn’t matter if you’re Amazon, Netflix, an IT provider, or a small accounting firm. Researchers found that CFOs now play a central role in actively creating business value – with 40% driving new business models and revising financial strategies on a holistic level.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

9-out-of-10 strategies fail to meet expectations. According to research by IBM, only 10 percent of organizations manage to successfully implement their strategies on a consistent basis. There are a number of reasons that corporate strategy execution fails to meet the mark. This is pretty shocking as well as worrisome.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

To truly meet strategic targets, your plans must be understood, committed to and implemented by your employees. Our own organizational alignment research found that strategic understanding, buy-in and commitment decrease 50% outside of the executive leadership team. Or a sales-driven culture (i.e. The Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But with the Express Pool service, which costs even less than UberPool, passengers are generally asked to walk short distances to meet their rides and to reach their destinations. it needed to consider not only sales of the egg bites but also whether they crowded out other menu items.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Our research into over 20,000 workers of all skill levels across U.S. Metrics emphasized speed. We rebuilt performance metrics to track impact, not to apply pressure. We implemented weekly problem-solving meetings.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

In my experience of working with leaders, and in my research asking followers what they need during times of strategic change, there are three main ways in which leaders too often send confusing signals to their organizations. One client I worked with recently — let’s call it Sales and Product Co.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

While these are all sound ideas, our research shows that something more fundamental is at play. Our research, which we call the “digital DNA,” identified 23 new management practices CEOs should consider, focusing on empowerment, experimentation, collaboration, data, and speed. Being a CEO is harder than ever.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 10, 2020

How do you score in all the metrics that might be worth watching, and where specifically are you scoring in the eight most important ones. We’ll explain several dozen methods to move work through your firm to enhance its effectiveness, generate greater profit, and still meet deadlines. What should you do if you hate making sales calls?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Most customer experience (CX programs) are positioned as strategic, but quickly veer away from business objectives and become simply about tracking CX metrics. They have “soft” metrics rather than real business goals. Yes, it’s hard to do this when no one has time to meet, much less collaborate.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

What are job goals and key success metrics? After a presentation or big meeting, state one thing you think went well and then ask for advice on one thing you could improve. Conduct research and literature reviews, attend conferences, or write on the topic. Here are six things you can do to take control of your own career.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. At his first meeting with employees, however, he announced that he wasn’t going to begin by talking about the firm’s financial challenges. According to researchers David I. ” It worked. ” Rethink how you think about injury rates.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

Sales positions can be incentivized by activities like calls on doctors and meeting regional sales targets. As the Los Angeles Times recently reported , Purdue doubled its sales force when the drug launched. “Higher doses did mean more money for Purdue and its sales reps,” write Los Angeles Times reporters.

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1 to 1

MAY 3, 2013

Marketing Research Articles. Meet the Editors. Sales Effectiveness. Sales Effectiveness. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Meet the Editors. Sales Effectiveness. Welcome to 1to1 Media — a multimedia resource for CRM and Customer Experience Professionals. CRM Best Practices. Weekly Digest.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The saying “You only have one chance to make a first impression” holds true in many situations, from job interviews to sales calls. Before meeting someone new — whether it’s a potential employer or a new client — do your homework. What should you actually say? And what’s the best way to follow up?

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

In many functional areas, such as plant maintenance, purchasing, sales calls, or accounting, more traditional structures and processes likely will deliver lower cost, more repeatable outcomes and more scalable organizations. The group started by meeting every Monday for an hour or two, but found the pace of decision making too slow.

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LSA Global

JULY 20, 2017

Other leaders believe success metrics must be set low enough so that people can consistently exceed expectations without setting themselves up to fail. If we push too much (or even too little), we may not meet our goals. We believe that both sets of leaders are wrong.

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