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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. .” It was the right thing to do.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data

Harvard Business

Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Emerging-market data can be challenging to work with due to significant data gaps, biased data, and outdated or incorrect numbers. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market.

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How Do I Include a Call to Action In My Newsletter?

David A Fields

How do I avoid being salesy AND include a sales call to action? Text and images are © 2015 David A. Consultants Marketing Prospecting Strategy writing prospecting strategy visibility' What advice would you give this consultant? What call to action do you include in your newsletter? Fields, all rights reserved.

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How AI Is Streamlining Marketing and Sales

Harvard Business

Turing’s thought experiment spawned scores of science-fiction tales, such as the 2015 hit movie Ex Machina. The company collects thousands of sales leads from the businesses it serves, and it wishes to interact with them in the intimate, personal manner consumers have come to expect.

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Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business

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. In fact, consumer research we’ve worked on at Accenture shows that in the U.S.

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Diversify and Create Multiple Income Streams as a Consultant with Dorie Clark: Podcast #11

Consulting Success

She is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. 11 years ago, Dorie Clark was focused on one job — helping companies with their marketing strategies and social media presence. Develop Your Marketing Approach as Your Business Grows.

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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

In the 1980s, project management software packages often were marketed in terms of how well they performed what was called “cost/schedule integration.” If we are undertaking the project scope because of the value (contract price, sales revenue, market visibility, productivity improvement, mortality reduction, etc.)

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