Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 21, 2024

The Impact of Marketing Consulting on Results and ROI Improved Lead Generation: According to a report by Marketo, companies that excel at lead nurturing generate 50% more sales-ready leads at a 33% lower cost.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Companies trying this approach end up becoming frustrated by the number of spreadsheets required to capture the information necessary to generate accurate reporting, complete project analysis and process project billings. This also mandates generating project reports outside of the ERP solution’s report writer.

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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Marketing and sales teams have traditionally had two separate objectives in most organizations: the marketing team works to get leads and fill the top of the funnel, while the sales team focuses on the bottom of the funnel and closing those leads. Lead prioritization is another people-based way brands can boost sales.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Tracking your sales team's sales performance is an example of gathering performance data. Publishing every salesperson’s revenue production for the day in a place where everyone in the sales department can see it is a feedback loop (combined with peer pressure). The reporting interval is how often you step on the scale.

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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. Yet much of the data from sources such as CRM reporting tools and time studies is self-reported, and thus inherently flawed. Related Video.

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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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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.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Think hard before blindly committing to another sales pitch. Looking at one metric for gauging customer advocacy, the Net Promoter Score, promoters are worth nearly three to seven times more in lifetime value than detractors, depending on the market. You have earned the right to ask them for another sale. Not so fast.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

For our client, that translated to setting personal goals for everyone in the company – regardless of whether people held an administrative position in the back office or were on the front line of sales. Also, have managers meet with their direct reports to review people’s progress on their individual goals.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

For our client, that translated to setting personal goals for everyone in the company – regardless of whether people held an administrative position in the back office or were on the front line of sales. Also, have managers meet with their direct reports to review people’s progress on their individual goals.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2018

Jenny Dearborn Data Driven: How Performance Analytics Delivers Extraordinary Sales Results. Congratulations to LSA Client, Jenny Dearborn, the Executive Vice President, Human Resources at SAP, for publishing her book: Data Driven: How Performance Analytics Delivers Extraordinary Sales Results. Realistic and Actionable.

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BCG

MAY 9, 2016

REBEX refers to our report as well as its underlying benchmarks, surveys, databases, and tools.) At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics. We refer to these banks as the “premier league.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists. What is the output?

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2015

Last week I discussed Rotary’s emphasis on sustainability, training and the use of metrics on International projects. I’m telling you this not just to report on the project but to show how Rotary is emulating the business world, or at least how the business world should act. We have to have metrics. Part two of two.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

Too many followers tasked with delivering strategic change report that their leaders weren’t clear enough about what they wanted the change to achieve or about what it would entail. One client I worked with recently — let’s call it Sales and Product Co. Why is this signal so hard to send?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Our clients report that only one third of their organizational change efforts succeed at achieving their stated objectives. Unfortunately, all based upon good intentions, the project scope grew to eventually touch every product line, over 50 SKU’s, all packaging, every graphic, and all messaging across their entire portfolio.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

This is a particularly acute issue at the entry level, where employers have come to accept that high levels of attrition and low levels of productivity and quality are normal. It has trained and placed 11,000 graduates into entry-level jobs in four sectors: health care, tech, retail/sales, and skilled trades.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In this step, you’ll want to build out the logistics, timeline, objectives, and metrics that will help your organization achieve CX success. Step #6: Measure your success with customer-focused metrics This final step is more like the beginning of your long-term CX strategy. How will you report on successes and ongoing challenges?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2017

would a postcard or a letter to target customers result in more sales?). In this case, let’s say your metric is the number of visitors who click on the button. Sometimes, you know that certain variables, usually those that are not easily manipulated, have a strong effect on the success metric. Or buy our product?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. The right composition and metrics.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain. Sales positions can be incentivized by activities like calls on doctors and meeting regional sales targets.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While the number of executives reporting to the CEO has doubled, only 35% of Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies have COOs, who are responsible for integration across business units or functions. Because of this, it will take more than great analysis, a superior product, or a performance improvement to clinch a deal.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2016

Yet IBM’s C-Suite Study reports that nearly half of CMOs believe they are not prepared to manage the challenges of social media. Also consider your industry, the recent performance of the brand, and the current traditional marketing promotions for the product and its competitors. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Brocade, a data and network solutions provider, created a “customer first” program by identifying their top 200 customers, who account for 80% of their sales. The metrics also changed. The results? Invest in the end-to-end experience.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2017

According to Mary Meeker’s latest Internet Trends Report , smartphones are now in the hands of 3.4 Make sure to use the right metrics when measuring success and identifying areas for growth. This means the metrics used to assess mobile strategies should expand beyond the mobile interactions themselves. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

They undermine productivity and account for more than 85% of health care costs — a big reason premiums for employer-sponsored health care have increased by 123% since 2000 while wages have increased by only 43%. One example is Omada Health , which modeled its product after the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program study.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Sales isn’t what you do. Get top-level guidance and metrics. What metrics will be used to determine how well your unit is doing at embracing learning and development, and how will that in turn affect your review? Discuss with your direct reports what kinds of learning they want to do and why. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. “They’re not hard to calculate.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

Compensation should be tied to broad-based outcomes and include things such as customer satisfaction and product knowledge, in addition to success at closing deals. Partly to blame was GSK’s compensation policy for its sales representatives, which linked bonuses to individual sales performance. Consider the case of GSK.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. This year we added a carbon metric.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Specifically, traditional organizational reporting structures limit managers’ visibility into how their employees are influencing and contributing to other teams. New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

The best business decisions are never ones of strategy, sales, or marketing. Instead, Jane’s successes are attributed to things like product decisions: Release of New Phone Drives Sales at Doe Industries. Within a year, the center I managed was in the top 5% based on several performance metrics.

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