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Why Professional Development Is Important

Strategy Driven

But this assumption is wrong, as technology and the world are constantly developing and evolving. And professional development cannot only benefit your career but your personal life too. On the other side, there might be many employees that want to develop more professionally but their employers do not see this as a necessity.

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Top 5 Business Marketing Strategies

Strategy Driven

And without the Ideal marketing approaches to fuel your development, screaming a profit and remaining afloat is virtually impossible. Here are B2C, C2C, C2B, and B2B marketing strategies that you can adapt in your business. This can divert incredibly useful information in regards to events, conferences and trade shows.

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The Growing Power of Inside Sales

Harvard Business Review

We spoke with Mike Moorman, a senior leader in ZS Associates'' B2B sales and marketing practice and a leading authority on sales management, about how inside sales (which refers to sales positions done remotely from headquarters, without face-to-face meetings with clients) is transforming the way that B2B companies interact with their customers.

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Focus on Your Customer's Customer

Harvard Business Review

And while these companies were the first to acknowledge the business benefits of delivering a great customer experience, business-to-business (B2B) organizations are increasingly getting in on the game. Often, the best way for B2B companies to satisfy the multitude of business customers is to focus on the needs of their customers' customers.

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In Sales, Social Media's Indirect Benefits Matter Most

Harvard Business Review

There's no better place to get a sense of the potential downside of social media for business than in B2B sales environments. So it's no wonder that there's a lot of uncertainty about, and even fear of, social media in B2B sales departments. Developing leads. There are many ways to do this via social media.

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Solving Facebook's Customer Advocacy Challenge, and Yours

Harvard Business Review

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. For the most part, they haven't yet developed the skills necessary to build such genuine engagement. Here are some of the possibilities for Facebook advocacy apps.

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Hiring Star Salespeople Isn’t the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

In B2B contexts, for example, rep performance in similar territories often varies by 300% between top and bottom quintiles, and in retail stores selling productivity typically varies by a factor of three to four. Generally, customer education and applications development are often key tasks in early stages.

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