Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Are you aiming to increase sales, improve customer satisfaction, or boost employee retention? For example, if your goal is to increase sales, your L&D programs might focus on enhancing sales techniques, product knowledge, or customer relationship management skills. Knowledge retention from eLearning courses.

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Metrics ROI Training Training 147

Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2017

But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise.

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Metrics Sales Software Meeting 124

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing. As alarming as those numbers are, they shouldn’t come as a surprise if you consider how sales training is usually conducted. Here are some ways to incorporate better technology into training: Before.

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Sales Training Training How To 125

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. We’ll focus here on what the sales organization should be doing now to prepare for the next recession, with an eye toward using new digital tools.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Customer relationship management software revolutionized how companies manage their sales pipelines. It also allowed organizations to communicate and coordinate more effectively across large sales account teams. Now a new breed of software applications is reshaping sales force management. Insight Center.

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Consulting Success

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Transform your failures into success in no time by implementing sales systems that will work for you. Description: Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences around the world. Without a passion for journalism, he knew he needed to make a career change and graduated into sales.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 26, 2010

Nilofer’s book addresses the gap in business texts regarding the latter topic, which includes day-to-day and quarter-to-quarter strategies, such as “how do we grow sales of product XYZ” or “how do we grow sales of division Y by Q%?” As she writes, “One person’ strategy is another’s tactics.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Two elements of it have caught some attention: Snap’s statement that it is a “camera company,” and its intention to reinvest its revenues in developing new products that will take significant time and expense, but which it believes it can develop faster than competitors. Don’t Confuse Products and Platforms.

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Productivity Strategy Strategy Strategy& 115

Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It depends on, of course, how detailed you wanted, if you have a partner, things could get a little more complex, but the basic average LLC or S-Corp or the typical way of getting a more formal entity set up, you shouldn’t be charged more than say, $3,000. It really depends if you’re doing a DBA and those vary on, by location.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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Sales Education Training Training 70

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

and how the work is accomplished, the flow by which products and services are created and delivered (e.g., This guidebook is your crash course on how to BEST position yourself as a consultant to the senior team in the C-Suite. Business Strategy : The organization’s formula for winning (e.g., goals, objectives, values, etc.).

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System Consulting Enterprise Recruiting 216

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2021

Your heart won't be in it, and your clients will know that you are trying to land them for the sale and not out of a heart of service. B2C Business - Offer advice, inspiration, programs, products, and services sought out and paid for by an individual who is seeking to improve their own life, career, or personally owned boutique business.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 9, 2024

And we are going to get that value from the product or service that is delivered at the project’s completion. If we are undertaking the project scope because of the value (contract price, sales revenue, market visibility, productivity improvement, mortality reduction, etc.) One is a change in market conditions.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

Retailers and manufacturers are rushing out new products to keep pace with the leaders of fast fashion such as Zara, H&M, and Forever 21, which launch new fashions every week or so. In a store, however, a sales associate tries to guess a shopper’s tastes in real time. Myth: The sales channel doesn’t matter.

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Apparel Retail Fashion Sales 132

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Many leaders look at profit margin, which measures the total amount by which revenue from sales exceeds costs. But if you want to understand how a specific product contributes to the company’s profit, you need to look at contribution margin. You might think of this as the portion of sales that helps to offset fixed costs.

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How To Boston Consulting Group Sales Productivity 134

Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The capacity of HHI is superior to its competitors — a four-kilometer Ulsan shipyard with nine huge “Goliath Cranes,” 16,000 well-trained and experienced people in production, R&D, management, and administration, and the ability to manufacture any ship of any size with superb quality and the highest deadweight tonnage in the world.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

What are the personal attributes, attitudes, and actions that influence personal sales productivity? I recently conducted an extensive study of more than 1,000 salespeople and sales management leaders to determine the attributes of top sales professionals–those who achieved more than 125% of their assigned quota last year.

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Sales Study Methodologies Productivity 130

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Think hard before blindly committing to another sales pitch. They become promoters because they’re delighted with your products or service, and maybe the entire experience surrounding the product. You have earned the right to ask them for another sale. Not so fast. Not so with detractors.

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Sales Insurance Insurance System 70

Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. But after listening to you and your podcast and understanding that I do have value in different ways than they would; that's the thing that set me on the course. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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Interviews How To Engineering Productivity 208

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Product marketing: For this, the CMO pulls all of the analysis and insights from all of the customer-facing resources of the organization to support and co-design specific solutions with the product organization. In many cases, the incapacity to successfully support the sales operations has been the downfall of a CMO.

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How To Sales Marketing Productivity 129

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

At its most basic, productivity is the amount of value produced divided by the amount of cost (or time) required to do so. It’s tempting to conclude that, if individuals are able to perform their work much better and faster, overall productivity must be soaring. sales-related, product-related, program-related, etc.).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Yet despite these high stakes, and the growing adoption of sophisticated analytics, many retailers continue to take a broad-brush approach to running promotions that results in missed sales and profits. When are discounts most likely to stimulate a sufficient sales response? Not all items a retailer sells are created equal.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Killing products isn’t easy. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. In our five-year study of global handset makers , we found that most firms pull products when they turn out to be obvious disasters such as the Note 7. Know the big picture.

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Productivity Resources Research Management 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

On the one hand, it means “the carrying out of a plan or course of action.” The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

This, of course, was not an entirely new idea. They designed an eight-week course to teach graduate students about Steve’s methods. Graduate students would serve as entrepreneurial leads and would go through the course with their professors and a business mentor. From Product Development to Customer Development.

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Government Course Conference Productivity 138

The Fearless Marketer

JULY 1, 2019

Directing your prospect to online information about your services (what I call a Sales Letter). But the most neglected part of this process is that durn* sales letter. Why a sales letter is absolutely essential. Why a sales letter is absolutely essential. However… What should go into your sales letter?

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Sales How To Guidelines Case Study 63

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Each presents distinct opportunities for profit and competitive advantage, from product improvements to new revenue streams to possible industry game changers. Innovate products, services, and processes. Use data to uncover hidden insights, and use those insights to create or improve products, services, and processes.

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Data Company Insurance Insurance 130

Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. But after listening to you and your podcast and understanding that I do have value in different ways than they would; that's the thing that set me on the course. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

Interviews 189

Interviews How To Engineering Productivity 189

Markovitz Consulting

MAY 26, 2020

“The problem is, I don’t have a sales manager I can trust.” It’s always a lack: a lack of money, a lack of time, a lack of a trustworthy sales manager, a lack of a wish-granting genie. The problem is, my sales manager promises delivery dates that are impossible for us to meet. But these aren’t really problems at all. Or, or, or.

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Sales Software Course Management 113

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2018

While most for-profit companies start with product and then subsequently segment customers based on profit potential (higher lifetime value and lower acquisition costs), the most successful nonprofits commit first to reaching an underserved population, which often includes higher acquisition costs and lower lifetime value.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. A popular, core feature of our product was our website grader. It empowered my team to move fast and get things done. Remember that Foursquare grader project?

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Strategy& Strategy Strategy Productivity 134

Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2019

Last week , I wrote about how sales incentives cause salespeople to stuff the company’s distribution channels with inventory far in excess of consumer demand. Volume discounts have the same effect, by encouraging customers to order more product than they need in order to get a larger discount.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

Looking ahead, we will continue to drive productivity, and we plan to conduct a deep dive into the details of our cost structure and allocation of capital to ensure we deliver appropriate returns for shareholders.” Injuries and catastrophic events, in addition to being tragic, are evidence that production is not being managed correctly.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

You can picture it like this: The best performers are, of course, consistent. They plan diligently and produce excellent products and experiences for clients time and time again. Consumers expect consistent products; people appreciate consistent management. Consistent leaders work hard and show up on time.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

retail market at less than 10% as of the first quarter of 2017, online sales are growing at almost 10% per year. One retailer I know saw a 35% bump in sales when it gave customers the option of picking up merchandise in its stores that they had bought online.). Census Bureau puts e-commerce’s share of the U.S.

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Retail Sales Course Trends 133

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Firms are scrambling to hire a new brand of analysts dubbed “data scientists,” and universities have responded to this demand by introducing data science courses into degrees ranging from computer science to business. The traditional way of solving this problem is using time-series econometrics with historical sales data.

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Data Advertising Operations Case Study 132