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Key Considerations for Small Businesses: What You Need to Know

Strategy Driven

Integration of Technology: Streamlining Operations Incorporating technology into your business operations significantly enhances efficiency. Implement customer relationship management (CRM) systems, point-of-sale (POS) solutions, and other digital tools to streamline processes and minimize errors.

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How More Accessible Information Is Forcing B2B Sales to Adapt

Harvard Business Review

The same corporate buyer relies on salespeople when evaluating new technologies: “It’s more efficient to work with a few trusted salespeople, compared to spending hours on my own sifting through all the information and misinformation that’s out there.” CRM), tools (e.g., Systems (e.g.,

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Why Sales Ops Is So Hard to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps the biggest challenge for sales ops leaders is delivering a huge diversity of work, while operating in a constantly changing business and technology environment. •Manage sales force automation and CRM systems and processes. The diversity of this sales ops role cuts across two dimensions.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. Treat employees and clients with respect and appreciation of diverse perspectives. Built systems — financial, HR, CRM, PM — to ensure orderly expansion from ten to 150 employees and one U.S.

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Find the Best Local Markets to Drive Growth

Harvard Business Review

National marketing may make sense for efficiency sake when only one-in-ten consumers is a superconsumer. National plans/strategies have long been efficient, but their effectiveness is in question as the US, in particular, is increasingly diverse in demand.

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The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

An increasing number of critiques have been mounted in publications as diverse as The New Republic , The Weekly Standard , and Wired (to name only a few) based on charges of sexism, conspicuous consumption, inequality, and an attitude toward government and social problems ranging from naivete to disdain.

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What Subscription Business Models Mean for Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

It’s efficient. Subscription sales require salespeople to divide their time among many diverse sales activities in order to both acquire customers and support their ongoing needs. You can drive efficiency by using inside sales. Salespeople work smaller territories and can live closer to their customers.