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Maximizing Impact: How to Measure Training Effectiveness and ROI

Clarity Consultants

However, with these investments comes the critical need to measure the effectiveness of the training programs and the return on investment (ROI) they deliver. Understanding Training ROI Investing in training without assessing its impact is akin to setting sail without a defined destination.

ROI 147
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B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

Harvard Business

By 2012, our research shows, nearly 60% of a typical B2B purchasing decision — researching solutions, ranking options, benchmarking pricing, and so on — was happening before the buyer even had a conversation with a supplier. The campaign has resulted in dramatic increases in marketing leads and sales.

B2B 119
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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business

Companies have hired writers and Chief Content Officers to run departments, create blogs and other materials, and, in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling. Our data also indicate that much of marketing and sales collateral is read by prospects outside of the normal work week.

Marketing 133
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4 golden tickets to capture CX ROI

1 to 1

When all the Venns, funnels, PowerPoints, histograms, flowcharts, and scatter plots are set aside, however, something remarkable becomes evident: While there are two dozen CX ROI metrics to track, companies need only focus on four. The “Four Gold CX ROI Metrics” webinar was the final episode in the three-part series hosted by ECXO.

ROI 32
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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business

Share of wallet is the ultimate measure of how they spend their money when the ultimate point-of-sale (POS) decision occurs. There is place in the world for performance benchmarking survey metrics like net promoter score (NPS). There are many obstacles and detours that can prevent full ROI from your CX program.

Metrics 124
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Track Customer Attitudes to Predict Their Behaviors

Harvard Business

There’s a similar assumption underlying much of the discussion around how to measure the return on marketing investment, where it seems to be tacitly accepted that attitudinal insights are insufficient at senior decision-making levels, and behavioral insights represent today’s benchmarks.

Survey 71
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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation.

ROI 71