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84% of B2B Sales Start with a Referral — Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business

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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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Finding, developing, and retaining this talent is hard — so much so that the business press refers to a “war” for talent. For financial capital, the business world has developed concepts such as the opportunity cost of capital, which is reflected in a company’s weighted average cost of capital.

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B2B Sales Hunters vs Sales Farmers

LSA Global

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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Ban These 5 Words From Your Corporate Values Statement

Harvard Business

Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established. Things like organization design, training, improved processes, and new shared metrics and performance standards are.).

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

ADP, a leading provider of payroll capabilities, allows customers to use its DataCloud tool to compare themselves to other firms not only how much employees are paid, but also metrics like their average job tenure, attrition rates, how much they invest in retirement accounts, and at what age they retire.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. Brocade’s Net Promoter Score went from 50 (already a best in class score) to 62 (one of the highest B2B scores on record) within 18 months. The metrics also changed.

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You Don’t Need an “India Strategy” — You Need a Strategy for Each State in India

Harvard Business

Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. Policies relating to infrastructure development, land and labor, healthcare, and transport fall under the purview of the states—as do most licensing and permitting. Cultural variations are important.