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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

The crux of marketing is to anticipate (and meet) client needs whilst maximising profit. Price is a major driver of profit. Procurement and pricing Increasingly for global or public sector clients, procurement will have a major role in managing panels, framework agreements and tenders. Books on pricing?

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Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

This puts segmentation and targeting at the top of the strategy agenda A Marketing Week survey in 2023 revealed that marketing strategy is the most undervalued skill by businesses. Essentially a focus on the most profitable clients. The second question is “ Where will we play?”.

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PM Conference Report 2022: Strategy implementation, Employer Value Propositions (EVP), Storytelling and Client Feedback

Red Star Kim

She explained her firm’s core purpose was to build trusting relationships and vision of being independent, sustainably profitability and global. And many are looking forward to her book launch in March 2023. Alan Gotto, chair of Consultancy Procurement Council. Take people with you (by learning what’s important to them).

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Is billing by the hour killing your account manager’s proactivity?

Account Management Skills

Pricing based on number of hours spent has been the mainstay for agencies for decades but this is coming to an end – with procurement now looking closely at how agencies are adopting time saving AI tools to make the job quicker!

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Revenue Operations / RevOps Career Path: What It Is & How to Get Started

Insightly

An effective revenue operations function improves countless processes along the entire revenue lifecycle — and creates a critical link between top-line sales, profitability, and customer experience. In fact, LinkedIn’s 2023 jobs analysis report found that “Head of Revenue Operations” is the fastest growing role in the US.

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Revenue Operations / RevOps Career Path: What It Is & How to Get Started

Insightly

An effective revenue operations function improves countless processes along the entire revenue lifecycle — and creates a critical link between top-line sales, profitability, and customer experience. In fact, LinkedIn’s 2023 jobs analysis report found that “Head of Revenue Operations” is the fastest growing role in the US.

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How to lead your clients into the future, with Kathryn Strachan

Account Management Skills

In 2020, Kathryn was a freelance copywriter and just three years later, in February 2023, she has an agency with a team of 25 people. When you are talking to clients and now let’s talk about this, we are recording this in February 2023. Her client base includes some of the biggest names in Tech and FinTech. So a huge welcome.