Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

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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LSA Global

JANUARY 20, 2025

Kick Off a Sales Call with a New Prospect in 120 Seconds in 5 Steps Starting a sales call with a new prospect is a delicate balancing act that sets the tone for the entire conversation in two minutes or less. Be Prepared Sales pre-call planning is the foundation of a successful sales call especially when selling to senior executives.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 26, 2023

The B2B sales world has completely changed over the last few years, and businesses all over the world are struggling to keep up. Not only are teams having to continually learn new trends and information about their products and their clientele, but the manner in which they sell is having to shift as well.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2018

Productive: “Achieving or producing a significant amount of result.” ” As a time management coach, I’m keenly aware that you could answer the question “Am I productive enough?” I’m also familiar with the fact that individuals fall on a productivity spectrum.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. Four-hour meetings? The sales, marketing, product, and customer service teams were stuck at the 11th hour (well, the 12th hour, actually) adjusting for the CEO’s violation of structure.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

How to Win Over Value Buyers + Key Mistakes to Avoid Studies highlighted by our microlearning experts show that more than half of all sales prospects are value buyers who focus on achieving measurable business outcomes. To win their business and win over value buyers, sales reps must behave differently.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2017

But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 17, 2017

Most executives recognize a need for their sales team to act as consultants and sell “solutions.” ” But many CEOs would be shocked at how poorly their sales teams execute on the strategy of consultative selling. I’ve sat through many sales calls like this, and trust me it isn’t pretty.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The manager decides to meet with a field salesperson to get clarity and to work out some details for a quote. At the same time, the software company has wasted time and resources on duplicate, uncoordinated, and ineffective marketing and sales outreach. The buying process is no longer linear or consistent.

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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.

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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.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 16, 2024

How to Sell in Challenging Times: B2B Strategies for Success We know from sales leadership simulation assessment data that selling B2B solutions in challenging times requires more than sales perseverance it demands a shift in sales strategy, sales mindset , and sales communication.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

For some networking meetings, the agenda is obvious: Your companies are considering doing business together, or you’re looking for a job and this person might help you get one. But many professionals find themselves in networking meetings where the goals are murkier.

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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.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 7, 2023

Business development and sales are two of the most critical components of any successful business. They are closely related, with business development focusing on identifying new opportunities and building relationships, and sales being the process of actually closing deals and generating revenue.

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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). Product Led Growth is a business methodology in which the product itself serves as the primary driver of customer acquisition. What is PLG?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

To succeed in sales, you must know your customer. One of the simplest distinctions in sales is that between B2C, which stands for business-to-customer, and B2B, which stands for business-to-business. Simply put, a B2C sale takes place when your business sells a product or service directly to an end consumer.

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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. Top performers are more likely to: employ truly tailored pricing at the individual customer and product level.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2019

This week I’d like to address sales incentives and volume discounts. Sales incentives—for example, bonuses to meet monthly or quarterly revenue goals—cause salespeople to stuff the company’s distribution channels with inventory far in excess of consumer demand.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2020

If you're going to invest in personal development, invest in the skills and tools you may not have like marketing and sales. Many consultants and coaches think it's the dream to have someone else do their marketing and sales and just bring them clients. But I would ask you, "Is it the dream?" This is why you need to land your own work.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2018

So when I was doing my initial contracting meetings, I was motivated to offer detailed solutions to my clients because the more steps, the more money I made.for this ONE client. Thinking about yourself and your fees in this way will literally transform how you show up in a client contracting meeting. The Ultimate Best Practice.

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LSA Global

JUNE 17, 2024

How to Increase the ROI of Sales Training Even though $20 billion is spent on business sales training per year, more than a third of sales leaders admit that they do not have a clear idea of what measurable return they are looking for on sales training. All those sales skills make sense.

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Harmonious Workplaces

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Without a recruitment firm’s assistance, a company’s internal staff must handle these tasks, which can detract from their core responsibilities and reduce overall productivity. Compliance and Legal Challenges: Recruitment firms are typically well-versed in employment laws and regulations. References Allen, D., & Vardaman, J.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, businesses like Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, and Airbnb use AI-powered recommendation systems to suggest movies, videos, products, and rental properties based on a user’s browsing history, past purchases, and revealed preferences based on past behavior.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. The participants rarely felt they were wasting their time.

Turnaround 129

Turnaround Talent Groups Meeting 129

LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

How to Win Over Value Buyers + Key Mistakes to Avoid Studies highlighted by our microlearning experts show that more than half of all sales prospects are value buyers who focus on achieving measurable business outcomes. To win their business and win over value buyers, sales reps must behave differently.

How To 36

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2018

So when I was doing my initial contracting meetings, I was motivated to offer detailed solutions to my clients because the more steps, the more money I made.for this ONE client. Thinking about yourself and your fees in this way will literally transform how you show up in a client contracting meeting. The Ultimate Best Practice.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 19, 2022

Electric Vehicles Production and Sales Will Grow. EVs are going to gain higher market shares in Europe, the United States and China and outpace ICE vehicles sales. What else should we expect in 2022? Find it out from our review of the most prominent autotrends. Autonomous Cars: Level 3 Self-Driving Private Car Becomes Available.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2019

Last week , I wrote about how sales incentives cause salespeople to stuff the company’s distribution channels with inventory far in excess of consumer demand. Volume discounts have the same effect, by encouraging customers to order more product than they need in order to get a larger discount.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

You can do it up to $15 a month, but it’s definitely, especially if you’re doing webinars or you’re having meetings with clients through Zoom, you’re going to want to have some way of communicating. What that really do is it’s a link to your potential clients to pick a time to meet with you.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. So three different legs of a business type of knowledge from product development to high level sales to post sale services, and at a high level managing all of those things. Betsy Jordyn: Wow.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

Jeff was the head of sales for a company whose product was, more or less, impossible to sell. His goal was to increase total investment in Golden Global’s strategic products. When Jeff and I first spoke, he thought he had a sales problem. “We obviously have serious product challenges. By $2 billion.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Focus on adding on-the-spot value by asking good questions and focusing more on the people you are meeting vs. establishing your credentials. Be courageous with former clients: Schedule a meeting to catch up and check in.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

I was pleased with our meeting, feeling like she had made a real commitment. Looking ahead, we will continue to drive productivity, and we plan to conduct a deep dive into the details of our cost structure and allocation of capital to ensure we deliver appropriate returns for shareholders.” ” It worked.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 15, 2020

To attract the right people into your sales funnel, you have to know who they are. Articulate your value proposition and products and services in such a way that demonstrates to your ideal clients that you are the one to solve their problems and transform their pain points into catalysts for growth. Become a Master Problem Solver.

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