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How are you doing on price? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Since then, I have had more and more discussions with my clients about their pricing strategies and being squeezed in this market. In a lean economy, many sales and business development people feel obligated to discount their prices; at least, the discussion of price and where it fits in the sales strategy becomes more important than ever.

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The Importance of Testing in an E-marketing Campaign

Women on Business

By testing your marketing campaign, you gain more time, money and experience for future projects. Related posts: The Marketing Mix Made Easy to Understand and Use While creating your annual marketing plan, using a combination of. Has Email Marketing Become Obsolete?

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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. Leadership. 2) Implement a leadership model that balances your four type of competences of the leadership team (spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical). Marketing mix.

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Connecting with the 'Overqualified' Job Candidate: Why the Highly.

Strategy Driven

Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! The truth is, candidates with well-developed skills, a lot of working world experience, and the right attitude are exactly what you should want. Do what works! Not necessarily.

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Doing 'Different' Right: Ten Big-Time Difference Makers and How.

Strategy Driven

Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! With all the noise in your clients’ and potential clients’ daily lives, it certainly hasn’t become any easier to attract attention and appeal to your target market. Do what works! But the true success came in the way that they appealed to their customers.

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. Develop—and stick to—a marketing blueprint. Who should lead our transformation?

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Standard Operating Procedures Can Make You More Flexible

Harvard Business Review

For example, we are building a development platform for the iPad, and defining how it will interact with our electronic medical record system. We''ve reshaped our marketing mix to reflect this new patient behavior. But it actually creates freedom within a structure.