Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

His consulting group focuses mainly on sales enablement and marketing, and they have been in the business since 1995. In this episode, we talk about the path that led Tony to sales and consulting, and he shares insights into creating a successful consulting firm within the corporate world. Where were you always interested in sales?

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

This is from Jeweler Magazine in Australia and New Zealand. Dave In the current uncertain environment, DAVE WAKEMAN advises how business owners can assess and adapt their management strategy. Dave In the current uncertain environment, DAVE WAKEMAN advises how business owners can assess and adapt their management strategy.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. Now a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, Oliver Wyman is known to give MMC its strong reputation as experts over other insurance providers because of the firm’s focus on strategy.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

EY’s #3 Boston ranking – behind the prestigious BB firms – owes its honor mostly to Parthenon’s reputation for impressive strategy. For consultants in strategy, the projects they work on are high profile. The mood on the EY floor is all about learning, striving for excellence, and collaboration.

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1 to 1

MAY 2, 2013

Customer Strategy Trends. Search. ); 1to1 Magazine. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks Blog. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks. Creating a Seamless Multichannel Marketing Strategy. CRM Best Practices.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

The company specializes in enterprise cloud computing applications, particularly customer relationships management (CRM), allowing companies to automate their sales and customer service processes. As a result, Salesforce was ranked the #7 Best Company To Work For on Fortune magazine’s 2014 list.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

I was a sounding board to other higher executives about what their strategies may be or how they might sound in a particular presentation at a quarterly review in front of thousands of people. Throw it to the sales group and say go sell this thing because it's such a cool product.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

Newspaper, pay TV, magazine and other media companies that have been losing customers in droves to digital media firms like the Huffington Post or Netflix. In traditional organizations, product engineers hand off new products to marketing and sales, which get customer feedback and then report it back to product engineers.

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Harvard Business

JULY 23, 2018

We started by analyzing the dollar volume of annual grocery store sales per store across 1,600 U.S. This time, we asked them to imagine they saw a special issue of their favorite magazine just before they finished “shopping.” After the videos, participants moved on to the grocery shopping task.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

I was a sounding board to other higher executives about what their strategies may be or how they might sound in a particular presentation at a quarterly review in front of thousands of people. Throw it to the sales group and say go sell this thing because it's such a cool product.

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1 to 1

MAY 7, 2013

Customer Strategy Trends. Search. ); 1to1 Magazine. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks Blog. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks. 1to1 Magazine. Customer Strategy. Marketing Research Articles.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Traditional businesses should worry, and maybe they should think about platform strategies. And many platforms today, such as 50-year-old MasterCard, were started back when a browser was someone thumbing through magazines at the local newsstand. Village matchmakers started making their living organizing marriage markets millennia ago.

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ConsultX

MARCH 21, 2022

This blog post was created from Everything Business Consulting podcast episode 71, 7 Strategies to getting a Business Owner to open up. Before looking at the seven strategies, let’s start by looking at why this is something important to the success of a Business Consultant, Coach, or Advisor. To view the episode page, click here.

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1 to 1

JUNE 11, 2013

Customer Strategy Trends. Search. ); 1to1 Magazine. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks Blog. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks. 1to1 Magazine. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness.

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1 to 1

JUNE 13, 2013

Customer Strategy Trends. Search. ); 1to1 Magazine. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks Blog. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks. Marketing Research Articles. CRM Best Practices. Emerging Business Tactics.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2016

Nokia’s CEO was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2007, with the headline “Nokia: A billion customer and counting. I like to look at variables in 4 columns: Outcomes (what you are trying to achieve, as in sales). Can anyone catch the cell phone king?” I start by making a model of the business.

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1 to 1

MAY 5, 2013

Customer Strategy Trends. Search. ); 1to1 Magazine. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks Blog. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks. 1to1 Magazine. Customer Strategy. Marketing Research Articles.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 23, 2015

UPS expected to deliver 36 million packages yesterday, double its normal volume, as online retail sales continue to grow during the Christmas season. The parcel service has hired an extra 95,000 seasonal workers to help with the expected onslaught of packages, said Fortune magazine. Sign of Huge Holiday Sales? percent from 2014.

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LSA Global

MAY 21, 2019

Top Sales Reps are Buyer-Centric. The secret to increasing your sales is not to push harder; it is to be more buyer-centric. To increase sales and create long-term client relationships, you need to get beyond the mechanics of solution selling and focus on what matters most to the buyer. How to Switch Your Perspective.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The Leadership Center is well respected in the industry and has been inducted into the Training Magazine’s Hall of Fame. No one thinks of learning as being a strategy for building deeper relationships with customers and partners. Customer interactions that aren’t directly tied to sales are seen as unproductive.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. The strategy offers them a rare trifecta: It’s good for the company, youth, and society. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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1 to 1

JUNE 11, 2013

Customer Strategy Trends. Search. ); 1to1 Magazine. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks Blog. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks. Marketing Research Articles. CRM Best Practices. Emerging Business Tactics.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Read on to see why Fortune magazine has named Towers Watson on its list of Most Admired Companies four years running, and examine where it may be headed. Sales Effectiveness and Rewards. The knowledge gained of the healthcare industry at Towers Watson would certainly qualify you for a role at a strategy firm in a healthcare practice.

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1 to 1

MAY 3, 2013

Customer Strategy Trends. Search. ); 1to1 Magazine. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks Blog. Customer Strategy. Sales Effectiveness. Sales & Marketing Effectiveness. Strategy Speaks. Marketing Research Articles. CRM Best Practices. Emerging Business Tactics.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Later, Justus shared the successes with then CEO Meg Whitman, which led to a global micro-projects strategy. From 2005 to 2013, when Nayar led HCL as president and then CEO, the company’s sales, market cap, and profits increased six fold, according to the book.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In the September 2014 Mergers & Acquisitions magazine there was mention of how in today’s market sellers and investment bankers are trying to get “A” prices for “B” businesses. Achieving scale as it’s rare to see a business doing under $5 million in sales be an “A” business.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In three studies, published in 2010 in the Journal of Applied Psychology , Tom Sy and his colleagues designed vignettes describing an Asian or white leader (Tung-Sheng Wong vs. John Davis) who worked in engineering or sales. Asians were rated as lower on leadership overall, but more so in sales than engineering.

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The Fearless Marketer

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Instead, you want something like John Nemo’s: “I Show B2B Sales Professionals, Business Coaches and Consultants How To Generate Leads + Add Clients using LinkedIn”. __. They are typically titles (Patent Attorney, Management Consultant, Personal Chef) or labels of what people do (tax preparation specialist, training in communication skills).

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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 30, 2016

Magazine column Norm Brodsky wrote the following about what he tells entrepreneurs who come to him for advice: “One, always build a business to last forever. Sure, sales will be higher, but so will costs. In a recent Inc. Do what’s best for the business long term. Doesn’t seem that long ago, does it?

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 6, 2015

One of the most interesting comments was: “To help pay back debt amassed in the deal-one of the biggest-ever overseas transactions by a Japanese company-Suntory is trying to double global spirits sales by 2020. Having to double sales in five years to cover debt payments means it pretty risky. Conclusion.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

If two men are deciding on corporate strategy together, they may be more likely to go all-in for one approach or take some cards off the table completely. If a woman is involved in the decision making, though, moderate paths are more likely. Fortunately, men who want to reach moderation do have options.

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Jerry Fletcher

JUNE 6, 2020

My friend Allen, one of the best sales people I’ve ever met, told me how his jewelry company kept card files on customers that included data on each customer’s extended family. These days newsletters come in all levels of graphic design from text alone to magazine style approaches that have audio and video links built in. A Rolodex TM.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Later, Justus shared the successes with then CEO Meg Whitman, which led to a global micro-projects strategy. From 2005 to 2013, when Nayar led HCL as president and then CEO, the company’s sales, market cap, and profits increased six fold, according to the book.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 10, 2019

These words, first uttered by CEO Club of Boston founder Fred Green are excerpted from his article published in CEO Refresher Magazine. CEO Recharge, a structured retreat for reflecting on new company strategies and goals. Members free. Discount rates for members. Peer Advisory Council monthly interactive sessions. Members free.

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Emerson Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Being regularly published in professional business journals and trade and industry magazines can not only boost sales and publicity for your firm, but also offer you an invaluable level of credibility. a strategic management and operations consulting firm that helps businesses implement breakthrough strategies.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Magazine – 65-75% of small companies in the US – some 10 million – likely hang up a “for sale” sign in the next 10 years (2015).

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 24, 2023

Jeweller Magazine : Finding a Way to Deliver Something Different : This is about relative differentiation and standing out in a competitive market. Here are some links to places I’ve been featured or written for. I’ll update this regularly. Positioning isn’t about standing alone, but being unique in a special way.

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