Rick Conlow

AUGUST 1, 2023

.” — Napolean Hill “The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential… the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individuals persons.”

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ROI Training Training Leadership 72

Progressus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Management must commit to articulating its strategy with IT, and IT leaders must ensure that the resulting architecture can meet the evolving needs of the business. The provider’s commitment to your project and understanding of your goals (and relevant experience in meeting them) can be a make-or-break issue.

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System ROI Software Government 52

Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 11, 2024

Supply Chain Management: Efficient supply chain management is crucial for e-commerce businesses to meet customer demands, reduce fulfillment costs, and ensure timely deliveries. This data-driven approach provides actionable insights for optimizing marketing campaigns, product offerings, and customer engagement initiatives.

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Consulting Trends Efficiency Agile 52

Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central + Progressus A Total Solution for Project-Centric Organizations Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a comprehensive, cloud-based ERP solution for small to midsized businesses, connecting sales, service, finance, and operations to work smarter, adapt faster, and perform better.

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Resources Report ROI Data 52

The Consultants Peer Group

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The individual was describing a meeting with a C-suite member of an organization in the industry who was talking about their needs and whether the consultant could help them. The ROI on your membership fees, especially as used in the proposal stage, is fairly straightforward and positive.

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Ethics Intellectual Property Consulting ROI 52

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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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. million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S. But sales managers also have to take some blame.

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Sales Company Cash Flow ROI 28

ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Our Consultants are meeting with Business Owners around the world every day. Explaining ROI As a Business Consultant, it can be really difficult to explain what kind of return on investment a client will get. Profit that is available to you now, from money that is already circulating in your Business.

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Cash Flow ROI Operations Analysis 52

Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

One of the reasons I do an annual Consultant Marketing Survey is that years ago I wanted to prove the point that trade shows did not have reasonable ROI when compared to other promotional possibilities. You can set sales meetings with a lot of key players in a short time. People don’t buy on the first meeting.

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Marketing Consulting Software ROI 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

For some networking meetings, the agenda is obvious: Your companies are considering doing business together, or you’re looking for a job and this person might help you get one. But many professionals find themselves in networking meetings where the goals are murkier.

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Meeting ROI Sports Metrics 38

Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Unengaged employees are less productive and lose companies billions of dollars in lost sales, poor customer service and inferior quality. Leaders today need to ask more questions, listen better, hold better and purposeful meetings, and engage their employees more. 1 Employee Engagement: It is about your team; it is not about you.

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Leadership eBook ROI Resources 101

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Later, marketers found themselves working backward to connect their social strategy to business strategy, as managers demanded greater proof of ROI. Unless you connect your social media actions to broader business goals from the beginning, ROI can be elusive, and social media becomes an end unto itself.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. These meetings involve 20-60 minutes. Do this with informal coaching and in scheduled one-on-one meetings.

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Training Training Leadership Development 86

Rick Conlow

JANUARY 31, 2022

Unengaged employees are less productive and lose companies billions of dollars in lost sales, poor customer service and inferior quality. Leaders today need to ask more questions, listen better, hold better and purposeful meetings, and engage their employees more. 1 It is about your team; it is not about you!

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Leadership Examples ROI Ethics 123

The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 26, 2018

I’m working with a client right now who does high-end sales training. In the course of our conversations, he mentioned that 82% of his clients got a 10:1 ROI on their training investment. Instead, the home page of his site mentioned general ideas about the value of their sales training. That’s both impressive and significant.

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ROI Training Training Sales 48

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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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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Industry SMB Software Talent 52

1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

Meeting these challenges while reducing cost to serve will require a digital-first, customer-centric approach. More often we are seeing digitally transforming legacy support systems as a key to meeting modern expectations. These roll up into what we call ‘effortless’ experiences, which will define the new age in retail.

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Effective Managers

JANUARY 31, 2022

If the ROI were not there, the investments would not be made. In my experience with small and medium sized businesses, they are very good at production, and they are very good at sales. Management consulting, as a profession, exists to add value to client organization. But it typically doesn’t go beyond that.

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Consulting Research Industry Report 52

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 17, 2019

You meet all types of crazy interesting people. Given that it’s an expensive technology to integrate, can you give me an example of a company that has used blockchain in their supply chain and has seen a positive ROI? They recently announced that the integration of blockchain has helped them generate more sales.

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Case Interview Retail Examples Sales 60

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. She went into the meeting prepared for the worst. The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. With trepidation, she answered honestly and indicated that she didn’t.

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Advertising Agile Marketing Meeting 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. In the public sector, return on basic research has been estimated to be between 30% and 100%.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

Would you go and meet a prospective client wearing basketball shorts and sandles? So, I beg you, don’t design your own sales materials. Many sales are won and lost by simply by how you graphically represent yourself.” Email marketing has an average ROI of 3800%. SOURCE: Social Talent. Source: Usability Geek.

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B2B Marketing Consulting Advertising 60

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Sales isn’t what you do. But those same managers have come to recognize that the ROI for enabling this development is enormous. Perhaps they want to be able to present ideas more clearly in meetings. Or perhaps they want to jump from engineering to sales. You’re not a data scientist. Hire to train.

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How To Development Metrics Talent 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

That way, if ABU projects have high profits relative to the costs, the departments they work with have an easier time meeting annual targets. Second, the ABU team is paid using variable compensation, based on projects that have been fully implemented and based on their ROI. Rigorous assessment of results. The right people.

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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. I like to look at variables in 4 columns: Outcomes (what you are trying to achieve, as in sales). I start by making a model of the business.

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Company Sales Retail Engineering 28

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

ROI calculator. As a consultant, there is no better position to be in for sales conversations than that of the trusted advisor — a position that publishing your white paper helps you take. Your sales funnel would look something like this: Sample Book Chapter -> Book -> Discovery Session -> Consulting Engagement.

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Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

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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Sales Data Enterprise Operations 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Yes, it’s hard to do this when no one has time to meet, much less collaborate. Share of wallet is the ultimate measure of how they spend their money when the ultimate point-of-sale (POS) decision occurs. There are many obstacles and detours that can prevent full ROI from your CX program.

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Metrics Data ROI Benchmarking 35

1 to 1

MAY 3, 2021

Meet the “Chat Avengers : Who are you going to call when you want to deliver a great customer experience with chat? Meet TTEC’s “Chat Avengers” – a super force of experts whose mission is to create amazing chat sales and service interactions for consumers and brands. Alexa, what is the ROI of Voice and Chat Assistants? :

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Meeting ROI Healthcare Sales 26