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Four Things Your Business Should Outsource Now

Strategy Driven

You may also have a need for more specialised SEO and marketing services, and outsourcing those services is a must. Finance & Payroll. You need to keep up with the changing and complex tax laws , and you can only do that if you have an expert in finance working with you. Call Answering Services.

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The Marketing Strategy: What You REALLY Need To Know

Strategy Driven

Your business thrives on how effective its marketing strategy is. Marketing is a concept that can almost consume a business that hasn’t got its strategy in order. Most businesses place a vast proportion of their budget towards marketing and its various sub-categories. How Do You Control This Image?

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Healthy Raises

Lead Change Blog

In the global economy, each company is constantly adjusting its strategies to enable it to stay ahead of its competition. To differentiate themselves from competitors, they need to find new ways of creating new product lines and managing their finances to improve the return on investments.

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. Business-critical roles — that is, the jobs that are central to differentiating a company from its competitors and successfully executing its strategy — will also change.

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It’s 10 AM. Do You Know What Your Sales Reps Are Doing?

Harvard Business Review

We’ll focus on how the software helps to clarify three situations: design of the sales coverage model, alignment of sales resources to market opportunity, and identification and widespread adoption of the behaviors with the strongest positive influence on sales performance. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles.

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. To borrow a telecom industry metaphor, a deal with a customer is the “last mile” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and marketplace results. Only customers buy.

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Disrupting the Gaming Industry with the Same Old Playbook

Harvard Business Review

With a market size of $8 billion in 2013 Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) is becoming big business. Some MMOG professional teams players can command six figure salaries, thanks to the finance provided by corporate sponsorships and advertising. Stories like LoL and Vans illustrate a profound truth about strategy and business.