Consulting Success

APRIL 4, 2017

If you’re not basing your fees on value or ROI you’re leaving significant money on the table. Most buyers of consulting services are more than happy to invest at a 5-10X ROI. Most buyers of consulting services are more than happy to invest at a 5-10X ROI. Want help to ensure your marketing materials are up to par?

Tourism 250

Tourism Consulting How To ROI 250

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

After discussing Jacobi’s sales woes, Shani, suggested he try out Albert, Adgorithm’s AI-driven marketing platform. It works across digital channels, like Facebook and Google, to measure, and then autonomously optimize, the outcomes of marketing campaigns. Jacobi decided he’d give Albert a one-weekend audition.

Sales 134

Sales Tools ROI Advertising 134

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

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.

Marketing 134

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 134

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. They don’t need to know how to do those jobs.

Sales 126

Sales Training Training How To 126

Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Writing a consulting proposal that closes a sale can be challenging, and as a result it may be difficult to figure out why your proposals are getting rejected. Have a Sales Conversation First. If they’re not crazy about the idea, you need to do a better job of selling your company and the ROI you can provide. Keep it Brief.

Sales 104

Sales ROI Consulting Travel 104

Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2024

Setting clear goals and understanding how to measure your ROI are key to a successful Super Bowl ad.

ROI 187

ROI Strategy Strategy Strategy& 187

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

MMM assists marketers in optimizing future spends and maximizing effectiveness (i.e. Then, budget allocation is done, by shifting money from low ROI mediums to high ROI mediums, thus maximizing sales while keeping the budget constant. Answer : The objective is to maximize the target variable (sales). Types of MMM.

Marketing 97

Marketing ROI Sales Advertising 97

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Over 90% of medium and large businesses have used social media in their marketing for five years or longer. Yet the CMO Survey reveals that nearly half of marketers are unable to show the impact of their social media investments. Social was an add-on to existing plans — another outlet to deliver the marketing message.

Media 135

Media Company ROI Metrics 135

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 9, 2020

The easiest way to know the difference between these two models is who will be paying you - the organization or the individual and the expected ROI. As long as you're skilled at sales and negotiations, you can easily land a single a client that could provide a good portion of your annual income.

Consulting 288

Consulting Leadership ROI Travel 288

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

No one likes to feel as if they’re being watched, yet with technology continuing to mature, we have found ourselves entrenched in a marketing machine that has become far too intimate for anyone’s liking. Data-Driven Marketing. The power of digital is so great that brands have started to abuse it. Insight Center.

Data 125

Data Marketing ROI Research 125

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. And the sales team — well, they mostly hated it.

Sales 132

Sales How To Metrics Tools 132

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

Marketing 130

Marketing Advertising Media Video 130

Steve Shu Consulting

MAY 10, 2010

I like this part of the book particularly because it starts to weave together marketing, branding, social technologies, and the fringes of innovation. Benefits & ROI – For those that have read Groundswell , this part is similar in that it covers some qualitative and quantitative models for using social technologies.

Leadership 150

Leadership Media ROI Guidelines 150

Comatch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Few enterprise tools have the potential to revolutionize daily operations and help businesses achieve best-case ROIs like a CRM. Calculating the ROI of your CRM investment is not always as straightforward. How to calculate the ROI of your CRM investment. What was the expected ROI? Ongoing maintenance and support costs.

ROI 52

ROI How To Tools Sales 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. They’re easing customers’ burdens by guiding them through difficult decisions and choices, and improving win rates for high-end solution sales by as much as 60%. Fast forward to today.

B2B 120

B2B Travel Benchmarking Sales 120

Effective Managers

JUNE 24, 2024

Predictive analytics, a field within AI, can forecast market trends, consumer behavior, and potential risks, providing businesses with a proactive approach to decision-making. In marketing, AI-driven tools analyze consumer data to personalize marketing efforts, tailor promotions, and optimize pricing strategies.

Ethics 130

Ethics Efficiency Operations ROI 130

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. The easiest way to know the difference between these two models is who will be paying you - the organization or the individual and the expected ROI.

Consulting 317

Consulting B2C B2B ROI 317

Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2017

Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs. The market is pushing companies to hit incredibly high numbers, quarter after quarter and month after month. It is a vicious cycle.

Sales 71

Sales Company Cash Flow Data 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

By Brian Selby, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Operations, Tableau Software. How often is your sales team making important decisions based on gut feel? Are your sales resources allocated properly to drive growth? Historically, sales has been labeled an art. Why does this happen in so many companies?

Sales 70

Sales Data Enterprise Operations 70

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets. William Andrew/Getty Images.

B2B 123

B2B Education Media B2C 123

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Despite taking the faux-curmudgeonly attitude of an anthropologist exploring the strange world of business dudes — is a sales funnel really that much of a novelty?

Marketing 70

Marketing Media Advertising eBook 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retailers such as ALDI and Walmart have used price to position themselves against traditional competitors in their markets, pinching margins all around. Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. Improving perception.

Retail 132

Retail Survey Bain Comparison 132

Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

Time is running out on personalized marketing as a means of continually raising the return on investment of campaigns. And the technology now exists for marketers to test with high confidence when to communicate and in what order — and to do so in near real time. How Leading Marketers Get Time on Their Side.

Marketing 71

Marketing Bain Advertising Data 71

1 to 1

JUNE 13, 2024

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

ROI Metrics Sales Benchmarking 32

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Aggregated total sales is a poor proxy because firms need to distribute inventory geographically, necessitating hyperlocal forecasts. Improved pricing. Predictive maintenance.

Data 132

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 132

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Measuring Marketing Insights. However, our research shows that it’s much more valuable to align customer experience investments to those elements shown to drive emotional connection, thus maximizing ROI while minimizing risk. Insight Center. Sponsored by Google Analytics 360 Suite. Turning data into action.

Retail 132

Retail Apparel Financial ROI 132

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

The other opinion (based on my experience) was that of using ROI to predict which product, project, or feature a team should do first. First, here are circumstances in which I’ve seen people successfully use ROI and earned value. Remember that ROI is the (Gain-Cost)/(Cost). For my clients, it appears to be better than ROI.

Agile 55

Agile ROI Productivity Sales 55

Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

One of the reasons I do an annual Consultant Marketing Survey is that years ago I wanted to prove the point that trade shows did not have reasonable ROI when compared to other promotional possibilities. You can set sales meetings with a lot of key players in a short time. What about business development value? It has to be real.

Marketing 52

Marketing Consulting Software ROI 52

Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

But, how you present yourself is critical for marketing and selling your services. This is more than how you dress — it’s your office, your marketing material, your brand — and yes, your website. This article lists relevant website and digital marketing statistics for consultants. Design isn’t magic.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Consulting Advertising 60

Effective Managers

JANUARY 31, 2022

If the ROI were not there, the investments would not be made. In my experience with small and medium sized businesses, they are very good at production, and they are very good at sales. As they scale, they continue to produce more, better, and to sell more to a wider market. But it typically doesn’t go beyond that.

Consulting 130

Consulting Management Report Research 130

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2016

Marketing is essential for companies. Throughout the customer journey, marketing both changes brand perception and awareness and drives sales. Simultaneously, companies need to justify marketing expenses — down to the last penny. Marketers must consider the real, hidden costs of low-cost marketing.

Media 70

Media Survey Advertising ROI 70

Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

A team of MBAs doing a market analysis and a P&L would probably pin the value at about $8. That's where the ROI would be at its peak. They were profiled by Tom Peters and had the highest sales per square foot of any store of its kind. But they're not in the business of selling ice cream cones. As a result, profits went up.

ROI 54

ROI Enterprise Energy Analysis 54

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

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

Survey Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking ROI 71

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. The easiest way to know the difference between these two models is who will be paying you - the organization or the individual and the expected ROI.

Consulting 156

Consulting B2C B2B ROI 156

1 to 1

AUGUST 30, 2021

The sales world is forever altered, thanks to pandemic-fueled digital transformation across entire enterprises. In the B2B space, where relationships reign supreme, sales organizations found effective and efficient ways to conduct business with a digital-first approach that’s efficient, effective, and won’t go away any time soon.

B2B 29

B2B Sales ROI B2C 29

LSA Global

JANUARY 19, 2021

Frustrated by Disappointing Sales Training Results? If you are frustrated by the results of your business sales training investment, you are not alone. Lots of sales leaders feel the same way. Only 1-in-5 sales training participants change their on-the-job behavior or performance from standalone sales training.

Training 36

Training Training Sales ROI 36

The Fearless Marketer

MARCH 26, 2018

I’m working with a client right now who does high-end sales training. In the course of our conversations, he mentioned that 82% of his clients got a 10:1 ROI on their training investment. Instead, the home page of his site mentioned general ideas about the value of their sales training. A clear marketing advantage.

ROI 48

ROI Training Training Sales 48