Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

80% of B2B leads from social media come from LinkedIn. Imagine LinkedIn as a bustling marketplace, where consultants and clients navigate a labyrinth of profiles, posts, and messages. For consultants looking to grow, this digital landscape is full of potential. However, LinkedIn is also brimming with noise. How do you cut through it all to.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 29, 2024

Questions people ask themselves when looking at a web page aimed at businesses (B2B). They are rhetorical, but should give you a place to begin: Is it my job to deal with this? Who sent me here? Will this advance my project? Will it help me get ahead if I take action? If I ignore this, will I fall behind? What are the promises being made?

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There is no other social network with the same access to B2B decision-makers. Do you want to write a LinkedIn consultant profile that helps you win new business? LinkedIn gives you an incredible opportunity to network and attract potential clients for your consulting business.

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LSA Global

APRIL 26, 2023

Top B2B Sellers How do top B2B sellers do it? Winning Bigger Deals The fundamental answer to the success of top B2B sellers is not that they work harder; it’s that they work smarter. In a nutshell, they make it easier for customers to make complex B2B buying decisions. Is there a secret sauce?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The B2B Sales Hunters vs Farmers Sales Model The role of B2B sales hunter vs sales farmer has been discussed in business sales training workshops for decades. Typically, B2B sales hunters focus on new customer acquisition while B2B sales farmers are responsible for nurturing and growing current accounts.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Why B2B Sales Skill Sets Matter The overall commoditization of products combined with the added pressure of shrinking margins and increased customer demands are heightening the need for the right B2B sales skill sets to meet grow targets. This is both a B2B sales skill and a sales mindset.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Ever since the start of the pandemic, an increasing number of B2B buyers have shifted online to find, hire, and work with external consultants. Can consultants use consulting marketplaces to find new clients and opportunities? Many consulting marketplaces have emerged as a way to connect buyers and consultants.

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Women in Consulting

APRIL 10, 2014

So why is there so much bad B2B marketing content out there? B2B companies are just as able to develop creative, fun, people-focused content as their consumer-oriented counterparts. Even in b2b, relationships happen between people, not faceless entities, and fun and humor are as human as you can get. Marketers know this.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 5, 2021

This is one of the things that Shiv Narayanan learned on his way to generating $2 million in consulting revenue for his B2B SaaS startup. Saying no to revenue is the hardest thing to do, but sometimes you have to do it in order to build a more sustainable business. The founder and CEO of.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. Meanwhile, 84% of B2B buyers are now starting the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations are influencing more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. First, three out of four B2B buyers rely on social media to engage with peers about buying decisions.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the B2B space, where relationships reign supreme, sales organizations found effective and efficient ways to conduct business with a digital-first approach that’s efficient, effective, and won’t go away any time soon. B2B sellers understand they need to change yet face challenges to creating successful digital-first sales experiences.

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Consulthon

JUNE 7, 2019

In the B2B selling, it is difficult to find out the price of a product. In the past, I have used import and export data, information from distributors and buyer to understand a price range.

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Strategy+Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Salesforce.com strategist Peter Schwartz argues that the lines between B2B and B2C are forever blurred, and now every company competes in the business-to-individual sphere, where the products and services it offers are tailored to every one of its customers.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2024

The authors’ research finds that the market-share profitability relationship has become weaker for firms that favor investment in value creation over value appropriation and for firms operating in B2B markets. In both cases, digital helps smaller firms catch up with larger rivals.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

But B2B companies often are disappointed with their results. Early user programs are critical to the success of products. The problem is the way they are designed and implemented. This article provides a process that can make a big difference in helping companies do a better job of choosing early users and harvesting valuable information.

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Henry DeVries

APRIL 7, 2023

Susan Quinn, founder and CEO of Circle S Studios shares which nine traits all high-performing companies exhibit. When done consistently, these companies not only outperform their peers, in many cases they become designated as best in class," says Quinn.

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1 to 1

APRIL 1, 2019

In the B2B space, where the transactions are costlier, the products are essential for operations, and service needs to be quickly available, the right channel is essential. According to the State of the Connected Customer report by Salesforce, around 80 percent of B2B consumers expect real-time interactions with companies.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2023

Research shows they prefer interactions that fuel their psychological needs — even if they require more time or cost more money.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2018

The cartoon of business-to-business (B2B) buyers depicts gray-haired executives and purchasing agents in meetings, on the phone and lunching with their vendors. But along with fax machines and long golf games, these features of B2B life have all but disappeared due to the astonishing change in technology over the past two decades.

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1 to 1

MAY 6, 2014

A few years ago while attending Dreamforce, I had a few meetings with executives from marketing automation companies who shared different approaches to engaging with B2B customers and prospects. These included tools aimed at gathering and acting on social information that might generated by a target customer or an active account (e.g.

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BCG

APRIL 5, 2016

To understand what makes digital B2B sales leaders tick, The Boston Consulting Group undertook a study of the end-to-end selling models used by a dozen next-generation sales leaders. We have uncovered five lessons that companies in any B2B industry can learn from and adapt to their industry’s particular conditions.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2024

Specifically, both B2C and B2B companies who view branding and advertising as a top two growth strategy are twice as likely to see revenue growth of 5% or more than those that don’t (67% to 33%). Companies that make the decision to put marketing at the core of their growth strategy outperform the competition, according to McKinsey research.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

While there’s less buzz around business-to-business markets, these innovations are changing the game in B2B as well, even in old-line industries selling what might be considered commodity products. For a deep dive into the elements, see our related HBR article “ The B2B Elements of Value ”).

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

B2B companies are struggling with a loss of control over the customer experience (CX) today. With their future growth prospects at stake, B2B executives must determine how to improve CX—while ceding more of the experience to their partners. B2B leaders know that customer experience is the gateway to growth.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

B2B, or the process of marketing and selling product and service offerings to business customers, is experiencing an intensified focus as the availability of new digital data that describes businesses grows. By helping B2B companies gather better data on their customers, AI will help them catch up with their B2C peers. Insight Center.

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Henry DeVries

JANUARY 26, 2021

Customers who relied on salespeople to share information now have it at their fingertips through the internet. What was once a differentiator for companies has now become a commodity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

.” In the B2B world, though, the experience is very different. But B2B customers are mobile, fully engaged in social media, and well educated: 94% of B2B buyers conduct online research before deciding on a purchase. The problem was that the system had not been not built with the user in mind. Reputation. Wide topic focus.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2023

A study of B2B companies found that just one in 20 was able to consistently grow sales faster than sales and marketing expenses. As companies seek to cut costs in an uncertain economy, increasing this commercial productivity is a smart strategy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2023

Let user-generated insights lead the way.

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1 to 1

JULY 12, 2019

Marketers, if your B2B website was on a “first date,” would it get a second one? Many B2B websites would make poor conversation partners—their main focus is about what they do, they don’t relate to the other person, and they share dull stories that are nearly identical.

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