Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2023

A study of B2B companies found that just one in 20 was able to consistently grow sales faster than sales and marketing expenses. As companies seek to cut costs in an uncertain economy, increasing this commercial productivity is a smart strategy.

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Consulting Success

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Are you worried that your sales follow up email comes across as way too pushy? Use This Sales Follow-Up Email To Get More Clients is a post from: Consulting Success. Do you want to follow-up in a way that’s more natural, doesn’t feel “salesy”, and leads to impressive results?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For early-stage startups, sales and marketing are crucial for gathering customer feedback.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2024

Companies that make the decision to put marketing at the core of their growth strategy outperform the competition, according to McKinsey research. Yet their research also showed that few CEOs recognize the potential for marketing as a growth accelerator. The first is to define what you need from marketing.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 15, 2020

One thing that both new and seasoned consultants hate is marketing. It's the fog of all that marketing entails and the fear that they are going to become some slick used car salesman is what keeps smart people stuck in soul-sucking corporate jobs. FOUR REASONS WHY SMART CONSULTANTS HATE MARKETING. But marketing?

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Consulting Success

MARCH 2, 2020

Branding And Naming Strategies That Help Win Consulting Business With Dave Ramos: Podcast #128 is a post from: Consulting Success. Business branding is such an essential part of setting up a company because this is what’ll set you apart from all the other firms running in the same industry as you are.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2024

Digital tools powered by relevant data can help to generate customer insights, better allocate sales resources, facilitate channel interactions, and improve brand value. But, like any tool, digital systems are only as good as their users.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. Your mindset still has to be one of service and value for what you bring to the table vs. letting fear and need drive your marketing.

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Consulting Success

MAY 13, 2024

In this episode, host Michael Zipursky talks with Amy Anderson, co-founder of Wild Coffee Marketing, to uncover expert insights and actionable strategies for maximizing lead generation success in the consulting industry. In today’s competitive landscape, mastering lead generation is the lifeblood of any thriving consulting firm.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

My guest today is Marty Greif, president of SiteTuners, a website conversion company and author of the book “'True Connections: Relationship Marketing in the Digital World.” Grab your notebook and get ready for some powerful strategies and quick wins that will transform your website into your 24/7 marketing and sales team.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

My guest today is Marty Greif, president of SiteTuners, a website conversion company and author of the book “'True Connections: Relationship Marketing in the Digital World.” Grab your notebook and get ready for some powerful strategies and quick wins that will transform your website into your 24/7 marketing and sales team.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 8, 2024

From entrepreneurs putting a new product on the market to executives at a public company revamping a product line, effective pricing is a key pillar of any successful sales and marketing strategy. Pricing strategy is not one-size-fits-all. On one end of the spectrum, the market might be perfectly competitive.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2024

Although the business environment is completely different than it was 20 years ago, the way most companies structure sales quotas and compensation has not evolved to keep up. To effectively compensate your sales team, follow these five steps. First, companies should determine their go-to-market maturity and set goals accordingly.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. Your mindset still has to be one of service and value for what you bring to the table vs. letting fear and need drive your marketing.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 21, 2022

He most recently served as the Chief Executive Officer for Concord Servicing – a company he led to record-breaking growth that culminated in its sale from the founder to a private equity firm. Are you ready to nail your messaging and rock your copy to stand out in the market and attract, impress and convert clients?

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

It's the lack of words that keeps websites from getting launched and marketing tactics from getting implemented. Which is a sales killer. Gives women who have broken through the glass ceiling but not the love ceiling pragmatic tools and proven strategies to find satisfaction in romance.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Their branding helps drive sales by keeping their products or services fresh in the consumer’s mind. It’s how you promote yourself and “go to market.” I used to be an expert at creating organizational change strategies for major system implementations like Oracle and SAP. These brands represent certain values.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2024

The Internet and AI tools are transforming marketing communications within a complex, interactive landscape called the echoverse.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2020

Finding communities and strategic alliances is not the same as trying to partner up with other consultants to avoid the anguish of putting yourself out there alone in your marketing. If you're going to invest in personal development, invest in the skills and tools you may not have like marketing and sales.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects, understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators, leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 15, 2020

Therefore, you need to create marketing routines that consistently generate leads and future clients into your pipeline. Marketing has one job – to get qualified leads to know who you are and be interested in having a conversation with you. To attract the right people into your sales funnel, you have to know who they are.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, traditional sales and marketing-driven approaches are increasingly giving way to a new paradigm: Product Led Growth (PLG). In this article, we’ll explore the fundamentals of PLG, its benefits, and how businesses can successfully implement this strategy to drive sustainable growth.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

I started to suspect that I was when I was presenting some difficult feedback to a client about their sales practices. I had sat with over 100 focus group participants and heard story after story about the impact of the company's unethical sales practices on their lives. Leverage your empath gifts to the hilt in marketing.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 9, 2020

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. The big downside is that figuring out how to create the right offers and pricing strategies so that your business is scalable and you are not in a trading time for money trap.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2024

In 2022, new EV sales in China grew by 82%, and the country provided 35% of global EV exports. Norway, and other Scandinavian nations were early adopters of EVs, and Germany and Japan have long been automotive powerhouses, their EV markets have lagged in mass market adoption compared to China. While the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2024

In a series of nine experimental studies involving around 2,000 individuals considering online or retail purchases of a variety of products, the authors found precise discount depths — the difference between the original and sale price — can increase purchase intentions by up to 21%.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

Business Strategy : The organization’s formula for winning (e.g., Organization Strategy : The placement of power and authority (e.g., Organization Strategy : The placement of power and authority (e.g., I'll be going over what's in this visual to give you a better sense of the true complexity of an organization.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 16, 2017

She is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. 11 years ago, Dorie Clark was focused on one job — helping companies with their marketing strategies and social media presence. Develop Your Marketing Approach as Your Business Grows.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

Sometimes the marketing message has fallen off. So, sometimes it’s a disconnect just on that marketing plan. You have a small, local marketing plan that really resonates with a particular geographical community, or some other psychographic community. Well, sneakers is a bigger market. Why isn’t it getting out?

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Strategies for capturing the tremendous value you offer in a course. Do you have the tech figured out about course delivery and sales? If you're in the same boat as Christy was and want to use an online course to take your business to the next level, this video is a must-watch. This platform is what we designed Christy's course on.

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