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Research: Highlighting Minority-Owned Businesses Can Boost Sales

Harvard Business

The authors offer insight into how supporting companies owned by underrepresented groups can benefit sponsor businesses while promoting the growth of minority entrepreneurship. In a new study, researchers examined some of these strategies, including Yelp and Wayfair’s labels which identify minority-owned businesses.

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business

So how can you improve your sales skills, especially if you don’t pitch people often? And what should you do if you lose a sale? “Many of them tell me that sales is something they never want to do in their careers.” ” And yet, he says, “Sales is the most fundamental skill.”

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What Sales Teams Should Do to Prepare for the Next Recession

Harvard Business

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. Prior to the past recession, both eventual winners and eventual losers in a group of 3,500 companies worldwide experienced double-digit growth rates.

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The Role of Instructional Design in Creating Effective Sales Enablement Programs

Clarity Consultants

The B2B sales world has completely changed over the last few years, and businesses all over the world are struggling to keep up. This makes a sales enablement program a vital tool when running a business. What is the Purpose and Goal of a Sales Enablement Program? That’s why a sales enablement program is essential.

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Secret Techniques to Overcoming Obstacles as a Manager or Consultant

Steve Shu Consulting

Over the years, I have had to opportunity to manage different groups and perhaps more importantly observe how different managers and consultants face obstacles. For example, suppose a manager wants to adapt a software product for an adjacent customer market.

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It’s 10 AM. Do You Know What Your Sales Reps Are Doing?

Harvard Business

Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles. At the highest level, Workplace Analytics can provide a factual foundation for decisions on sales structure and roles.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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