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84% of B2B Sales Start with a Referral — Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. In fact, a recent survey found that connecting with a prospect now takes 18 or more phone calls, callback rates are below 1%, and only 24% of outbound sales emails are ever opened. Why are more and more buyers avoiding salespeople during the buying process?

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The Basic Social Media Mistakes Companies Still Make

Harvard Business

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. ” But countless businesses have done just that with social media. Evan Smogor/Unsplash.

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How to Design the Ideal (and Most Profitable) Consulting Business

Consulting Matters

Set definite goals for your business with dates and metrics. A content marketing funnel is how you leverage your knowledge and intellectual property in the form of speeches, blog posts, articles, videos, podcasts, social media posts, etc. Engaging on social media. A goal without a defined date is actually a dream.

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Marketing Mix Modeling MMM (Part 1 of 3)

Tom Spencer

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. By different media? What’s the optimal level and timing of media advertising?

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Are Sales Incentives Becoming Obsolete?

Harvard Business

To motivate, manage, and reward B2B salespeople, many companies use sales incentive plans that link large commissions or bonuses to individual results metrics, such as territory quota achievement. The right sales incentive plan creates a double win. This made it easy to measure individual sales results.

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Decision Filters: Finding, Evaluating, and Taking Action on Opportunities

Tom Spencer

You should establish metrics that are specific to the scenario, aligned with your goals, and easy to understand or calculate. The filter can be a single metric that results in a yes/no decision, or a multistage process that results in an absolute yes/no or a conditional yes/no. Filters don’t always have to have well-defined metrics.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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