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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” Lead generation is now more efficient and scalable with apps that provide an all-in-one lead scanner and note-taking platform which can be seamlessly uploaded to a CRM system for follow-up.

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Tracking the Customer's Journey to Purchase

Harvard Business Review

A CRM system might let you know how customers moved between the website and the store, but it tells you nothing about how they responded to advertising or word-of-mouth reports. PepsiCo recently used RET to fine-tune its re-launch of Gatorade in Mexico, repositioning the brand around sports nutrition.

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What Separates the Strongest Salespeople from the Weakest

Harvard Business Review

Another interesting statistic is that over 85% of top salespeople played an individual or team sport in high school. For example, 52% of high- performing salespeople indicated they were power users who take full advantage of their company’s CRM technology and internal systems compared to only 31% of underperforming salespeople.

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The Sales Director Who Turned Work into a Fantasy Sports Competition

Harvard Business Review

Sports organizations have taken some of the apparent bias out of talent analytics by incorporating several factors into performance assessment, synthesizing numerous observable metrics into one “uber” number. But does creating one synthetic score to manage performance make sense in non-sports organizations, as well?

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How an NBA Team Thinks About Data, Talent, and Pricing

Harvard Business Review

And while the differences are aplenty between college basketball and professional hoops, this sports season got us thinking about the business of athletics. Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion.

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Don’t Waste Your Time on Networking Events

Harvard Business Review

Do any of them play poker, or enjoy attending musicals or sporting events? An easy way to put this into action is by leveraging your CRM data or LinkedIn. The primary goal when planning an event should be to choose an activity your existing clients will enjoy. If you and your best clients share similar passions, start there.