Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2023

You can’t deliver a modern customer experience with a dated approach.

B2B 175

B2B Tools Sales Culture 175

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.

Sales 131

Sales B2B Tools Software 131

Chad Barr

MARCH 19, 2025

AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT and others, aren’t just fancy tech toys—they’re strategic weapons that can revolutionize your email marketing and broader marketing initiatives when wielded with precision. Think of these AI tools as your marketing department’s secret laboratory.

Marketing 52

Marketing Tools Sales Engineering 52

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 243

Ethics Efficiency Operations ROI 243

Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

The greatest marketing tool you have is your network — here’s how to make it work for you. This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. Never neglect your network!

Marketing 202

Marketing Consulting How To Culture 202

Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

This practice increases supply chain efficiency, makes it cost-effective and responsive to market changes. With fewer defects, you can deliver better-quality products to the market, while the increased efficiency provides more time for research and development to meet changing customer demands. Maintenance management.

Operations 204

Operations Management Efficiency Resources 204

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Many leaders’ instinct is to provide direction and codification when trying to drive adoption of new tools. This is particularly true in sales, a function rooted in processes, playbooks, scripts, and templates. Discussion of generative AI has maintained a fever pitch since OpenAI released ChatGPT-3.5 in late 2022.

Sales 254

Sales Tools Enterprise Data 254

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

In the past decade, content marketing has become a widely established practice. Companies have hired writers and Chief Content Officers to run departments, create blogs and other materials, and, in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling.

Marketing 134

Marketing Case Studies Case Study Sales 134

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

For instance, AI-driven customer relationship management tools can automate data entry, lead scoring , content marketing, follow-up emails, and generating reports, freeing up employees to focus on more strategic activities like developing growth strategies, enhancing customer relationships, and driving innovation.

Small Business 78

Small Business Data Efficiency Tools 78

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

JULY 30, 2018

Based on research for my book Sales Ex Machina: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the World of Selling , here are five specific areas where AI algorithms can be leveraged to help your business grow by helping your sales team sell more: Price Optimization: Knowing what discount, if any, to give a client is always a tricky situation.

Sales 129

Sales Data Company Examples 129

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.

How To 401

How To Methodologies Survey Leadership 401

Consulting Success

JULY 24, 2017

His career path took him from software company technical writing and journalism to a marketing executive in a software company before becoming an independent copywriter who specializes in white papers and case studies. Case studies and numbered lists are two of the powerful tools that white papers must contain.

How To 257

How To Consulting Case Study Case Studies 257

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

The most recent results from The CMO Survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and sponsored by Deloitte LLP and the American Marketing Association reports that the percentage of marketing budgets companies plan to allocate to analytics over the next three years will increase from 5.8% Data-Driven Marketing.

Marketing 133

Marketing Data Advertising Talent 133

Steve Shu Consulting

MAY 20, 2018

One of the best ways to market yourself as a consultant is by having someone refer you to a client prospect. This type of marketing can be viewed through the lens of “networking by helping someone” (in contrast to networking and just meeting lots of people). gave them some management one-pagers I wrote on their topic).

Marketing 150

Marketing Case Studies Case Study Consulting 150

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Companies typically compensate their sales force by using some combination of salary, commission, and bonuses, but executives are often unsure of which incentives provide the best motivation. Some received conditional bonuses, which we tied to sales quotas under three different treatments: standard, punitive, and real-punitive.

Sales 132

Sales B2B System Data 132

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.

System 133

System Sales Consulting Methodologies 133

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

Successful Independent Consulting

JULY 31, 2017

I don’t know how to build a pipeline of leads ” or “ I’m not good at sales ” are common refrains. Most of us never had sales training so this concern is understandable, but reframing how we think about business development can turn concern into action. Read any definition of business development and you won’t find the word sales.

Development 244

Development ROI Software Sales 244

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.

Consulting 285

Consulting Marketing Comparison Sales 285

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. Provide tools that easily allow customers to edit their privacy settings. Insight Center.

Data 128

Data Marketing ROI Research 128

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.

How To 227

How To Training Training Consulting 227

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.” Everyone in business recognizes strong brands and understands their importance. These brands represent certain values. Independent consultants need to think the same way.

Consulting 296

Consulting Advertising Survey Examples 296

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 5, 2021

Your marketing efforts have paid off. Sales is not what you get through in order to get to the work. This step is all about creating processes, tools, coalitions, etc. All of your activities on social media and doing speeches worked. You created a proposal, negotiated and renegotiated with your client and the deal is done.

Consulting 254

Consulting Guidelines Media Tools 254

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?

Interviews 156

Interviews Company Marketing Operations 156

Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Using a customer relationship management tool (CRM) can make this so much easier. I'm totally biased-- I created Mimiran because traditional CRMs built for the VP of Sales were driving me crazy, so I suggest starting a free trial , if you haven't already. His latest article is packed with practical advice, so we're sharing it with you.

Sales 195

Sales Course System Tools 195

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

It traced much of the cause to a mismatch between its sales incentives and pricing strategy. The manufacturer was compensating sales representatives based solely on how much revenue they generated. Data-Driven Marketing. invest in ongoing development of capabilities among the sales and pricing teams through training and tools.

B2B 139

B2B Survey Company Sales 139

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). The product should not only solve one or more key problems faced by the target market, it should also be well designed.

Productivity 78

Productivity Marketing Sales Methodologies 78

Successful Independent Consulting

JULY 16, 2019

It’s hard to know if your expertise will be in demand, but like most solopreneur marketing, the more specific your niche, the better. If so, you then use the GLG online scheduling tool to select a mutually convenient time to speak with the client. From there, you can accept or decline an inquiry. GLG will pay you on a 1099 tax basis.

Talent 297

Talent Research Consulting Conference 297

Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Set Up Marketing, Sales, and Client Delivery for Efficiency Time is your most valuable asset, especially when you’re a parent. That’s why it’s so important to set up your marketing, sales, and client delivery systems to work for you, not against you. Efficiency is the name of the game here.

Consulting 156

Consulting How To System Efficiency 156

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

It’s a great challenge to accurately measure the effects of advertising, packaging, distribution channels, media expenditures, social media Likes and Tweets, and sales organizational structure on brand share or sales revenue. Is marketing solely a game of chance, or might there be a way to bring scientific methods to the table?

Marketing 88

Marketing Advertising Sales Media 88

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 136

Media Company ROI Metrics 136