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Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools for Your Business [2024]

Epicflow

A capacity planning tool is software developed to assist organizations in allocating and managing their resources more effectively. The tool is tailored for professional services organizations (marketing, advertising, creative agencies, software, IT services, and management consulting sectors).

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Why and How Personal Branding is Vital for Independent Consultants

Successful Independent Consulting

Their branding helps drive sales by keeping their products or services fresh in the consumer’s mind. Develop a “tagline” or one-sentence summary. This concept is borrowed from advertising. Everyone in business recognizes strong brands and understands their importance. These brands represent certain values.

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Biz Dev and Sales: Two Pillars of Business Success

Tom Spencer

Business development and sales are two of the most critical components of any successful business. They are closely related, with business development focusing on identifying new opportunities and building relationships, and sales being the process of actually closing deals and generating revenue.

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5 Biggest Differences Between B2B and B2C Sales Strategies

Tom Spencer

To succeed in sales, you must know your customer. One of the simplest distinctions in sales is that between B2C, which stands for business-to-customer, and B2B, which stands for business-to-business. Simply put, a B2C sale takes place when your business sells a product or service directly to an end consumer. Potential leads.

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Why Marketing Analytics Hasn’t Lived Up to Its Promise

Harvard Business

For example, while it is true that search advertising can be correlated with purchase because customers are in a motivated state to buy, it does not follow that ads caused sales. Even if the firm did not advertise, consumers are motivated to buy, so how does one know whether the ads were effective? That means two things.

Marketing 132
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Driving Sales Success This Quarter, This Year, and Beyond

Harvard Business

Most sales forces focus a good deal of their attention on the short term — on bringing in today’s sales or making this quarter’s numbers. It’s understandable: The sales team wants to be successful. But sales forces that are managed only to meet short-term needs can drift into mediocrity.

Sales 70
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The Ansoff Matrix

Tom Spencer

THE Ansoff Matrix (referred to by some commentators as the Product/Market Expansion Grid) was developed by a Russian-American mathematician named Igor Ansoff , and first explained in his 1957 Harvard Business Review article entitled Strategies for Diversification. Background. Benefits of the Ansoff Matrix. The Ansoff Matrix Explained.