Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every business needs to have an IT department of some sort, whether on-site or remotely, in order to keep their company afloat. Your company is bound to shape up and adopt the “out with the old, in with the new” rhetoric. Internet Is Faster at Relatively the Same Price. Read on to find out more! Stay Driven.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 24, 2021

Brainstorm your company name. Conduct a break-even analysis to help you determine profitability, price your products and analyse data properly. You should have a clear idea of the kind of entity your business will be in order to register your company. Companies that have a good company culture have a 4X higher revenue.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Conduct Your Research in Finding a Moving Company. When you are engaged in a professional office move, it is often the case that you are going to need to find a moving company to help out with the job. Obviously, the bottom-line price is one of them. However, even if you run a B2B business, it is still worth informing them.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 29, 2016

A strong brand will deliver several business benefits such as being able to charge higher prices for your services and make it easier to acquire new customers. The following are the most important aspects of working on for increasing both B2B branding in addition to B2C branding. Three ways to Improve your Business to Business Brand.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. Meanwhile, 84% of B2B buyers are now starting the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations are influencing more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. First, three out of four B2B buyers rely on social media to engage with peers about buying decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

The cartoon of business-to-business (B2B) buyers depicts gray-haired executives and purchasing agents in meetings, on the phone and lunching with their vendors. Conversations focus mainly on negotiating price and payment terms. nicholas blechman for hbr.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2017

You can use it to spread the word about your company, release new products, share promotions, and to interact with your customers. You could, if you wanted to, hold a contest to win a free design, however most interior design companies will offer a homeware item instead. Target Other Businesses.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Years ago I had the displeasure of consulting for a Canadian natural gas company. ” “So is Allstate,” I said to myself. ” The irony in the VP’s response is the fact that this company was poor at customer service. acquired this misguided company. The answer should have been a no-brainer. Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

A similar sequence has happened with B2B buying. By 2012, our research shows, nearly 60% of a typical B2B purchasing decision — researching solutions, ranking options, benchmarking pricing, and so on — was happening before the buyer even had a conversation with a supplier. Related Video. The 8 Types of Salespeople.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

airline companies have pointed fingers at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the biggest cause of outages, even as the FAA has fired back at airlines. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2020

They’re not only for customers who buy more.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Decision making at big B2B companies is often skewed by anecdote and myth: A worried report from the most vocal salesperson about a competitor’s latest move; a customer complaint that happened to be fielded by a senior executive. Smart companies turn this traditional approach on its head. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

In an ideal B2B world, your happy customers would spread the news about your great products, generating all the well-known benefits of word of mouth. They might even refuse outright, as happened recently to an enterprise-software company that I work with. But your customers may not want their competitors to hear about you.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

B2B buyers often have made up their minds about a purchase before a sales rep even gets a foot in the door. It’s no wonder, then, that more than 90% of B2B sellers have turned to content marketing to help regain access to buyers in the early stages of the purchase process. Mistake #2: The content overdoes personalization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

“Death of a B2B Salesman,” a new report from Forrester Research , lends urgency to the need for companies to rethink and radically transform their sales models by incorporating digital media into their processes. Here’s how B2B sellers should do that. Rather, his or her role needs to be redefined.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Companies like Netflix and Uber set that tone, giving us what we want, when we want it — usually on the first try. B2B buyers have slowly been conditioned to expect the same personalized treatment that they get while shopping on Amazon. To achieve this level of impact, companies can do three things: Build centers of excellence.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals. This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Winning with low prices is not merely a game of math in which you stay one notch below the competition; it is far more a game of culture and attitude. It takes a special kind of company, from the CEO on down, to make a low-price position sustainable and profitable. The groundbreaking price war in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Last year's business pages were filled with episodes of consumer outrage over price hikes. Three and a half months after announcing a price increase in July 2011, Netflix had lost 800,000 customers and its stock nosedived from $291 to $75. Netflix stood firm on its pricing decision and its stock has since inched up to $124.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

A Fortune 250 B2B company spent a quarter of a million dollars trying to solve the wrong problem. A new product line had failed, and the company believed the problem was either poor product delivery times or lack of effort by the sales force. This company isn’t alone. Kimberly Whitaker/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results. But these periods also present opportunities for well-prepared companies to take advantage of the turmoil and gain share. But these periods also present opportunities for well-prepared companies to take advantage of the turmoil and gain share.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The proliferation of smart phones and apps like ShopSavvy, which allow mall-goers to easily compare online prices to get the best deal, will only increase the threat to physical stores. When prices dropped over the holidays, it was time to make my purchase. Before buying it, I stopped in at Sears to check its selection.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 15, 2012

I say this because, while the two areas must work in tandem if both departments exist in a company, sales people have very different personalities than those in marketing. But if the company’s leaders genuinely want to improve their business and implement new marketing initiatives, they will welcome a detailed marketing audit.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

They know it’s a tough market and do not blame the employer for not being given the post, but they do hold the company accountable for the way they were treated throughout the process. For those of us in b2b and thing this analogy is irrelevant – think again. Gone are the days when people buy just on price. Dramatically.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 9, 2014

The internet and its immediate access to any information – including one’s reputation – the economy, Google and online searchability in general, social media, smart phones, one-click buying, Amazon feedback and other ratings sites, and smarter customers and consumers both B2B and B2C. Not just your company and your products – you personally.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

But this leaves a lot of uncertainty in what is often a company’s most profitable department, and it makes managing a high-functioning sales force notoriously difficult. But recent research has uncovered an even more powerful leading indicator: the size and quality of a salesperson’s network inside their own company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2012

Our article in the current issue of HBR, " The End of Solution Sales ," has created quite a stir among B2B sales professionals and pundits alike. So, companies train their reps to ask customers endless questions about their business and their priorities. As the saying goes, "The flak only gets heavy when you're over the target.".

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Harvard Business Review

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. It’s not just large multinational companies that are using the global rise of local influencers to accelerate their international growth. William Andrew/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

It's one of the most fundamental decisions that every business must make: What price should I charge? The right answer to that question is a company should charge "what the market will bear" — in other words, the highest price that customers will pay. Unfortunately, few companies use this approach. Sound familiar?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. But they also risk alienating the longstanding partners that companies count on for their core business. As a result, many B2B companies remain stuck in a stalemate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Wal-Mart, a company whose primary weapon is discounting, is under pressure to boost its web sales, which made up just $12.2 And consumers, already attuned to price and accustomed to discounts, are becoming used to free, fast shipping from e-tailers — so they need a good reason to visit a physical store.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. They then grossly underestimate how much customers would be willing to pay for them and charge prices far below what they could have charged. After that, you could buy them on eBay – but for 33% more than the original price tag.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

To be clear, all Orbitz users can see the same hotels if they opt to view hotels by price, and Orbitz does not charge different prices for the same room based on what kind of computer you use. Still, as pricing strategies go, this one is an attention grabber. Retailers often set different prices in different locations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. This means that companies won’t be able to compensate for lacking growth in Russia just by tapping another market.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Jeffrey, I am a marketing and sales rep for a company that sells emergency cleanup services. Jeffrey, My company helps small B2B businesses plan a video strategy and develop web series and webinars to tighten their bond with their customers. I get a ton of emails from people seeking insight or asking me to solve sales dilemmas.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

While B2C companies have become adept at mining the petabytes of transactional and other purchasing data that consumers generate as they interact online, B2B sales organizations have only recently begun to use big data to inform overall strategy and tailor sales pitches for specific customers in real time. Yet the payoff is huge.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

On Friday, Microsoft slashed the price of Windows 8.1 by 70% for select B2B customers. The magnitude of this price cut was surprising; all that was missing was a pitchman screaming “If you call now, we’ll throw in a free Tae Bo workout DVD — a $29.95 The downside of Microsoft’s price cut is that it devalues Windows 8.1

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