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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing By exploring key themes in commerciality and entrepreneurship, we saw why risk management and anticipating return on investment (ROI) is critical when making the business case for marketing investment. The crux of marketing is to anticipate (and meet) client needs whilst maximising profit.

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Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

Our target markets span large and small businesses; private, public sector and not for profit sectors; centralised and decentralised buying processes; procurement and user-led purchasing behaviour. Essentially a focus on the most profitable clients. So targeting is often more important and more challenging.

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“A crisis is a terrible thing to waste”

Mercuri International

Specifically, it’s about what makes them tick – and why training could be about more than just skills…. They focused on 4 key metrics to define performance: customer loyalty, employee productivity, business unit profitability, and staff turnover. So, how to make people happy? It’s about people. Your people.

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Why Your Organisation Needs A Customer Crisis Plan

Jermaine Edwards

Regardless of the size, maturity or sophistication of your organisation, you can apply these ideas to protect your profits, reputation, relationships and revenues. This doesn’t mean it will be easy nor will you not have to make tough decisions. It just means the effort and tough decisions will be worthwhile.

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Strategy Execution: 5 Organizations That Have Done It Well

ClearPoint Strategy

Every organization must make a big strategy shift at some point or another to stay at the forefront of its industry. This shift in thinking came about in 2015 after city administrators read the book, “We Don’t Make Widgets: Overcoming the Myths that Keep Government from Radically Improving.” organization can receive.

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Economies of Unscale

Flevy

The triumphant companies in the current tech rush—enabled by Platforms and SaaS—are the ones led by Customer-centric Design , providing each customer precisely what they want, that too while making a profit, and not companies offering everyone uniform products. By 2016 it was making sales exceeding $300 million.

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The 5 Stages of Entrepreneurship

Hubspot Sales

However, turning your idea into a profitable business is no simple task. The goal here is to identify and validate a profitable business idea. His interest in shoes and sports strongly influenced his decision to start the athletic shoe company. Don’t make the same mistake. You will make mistakes. The result?