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10 Trends – Annual International Marketing Benchmark by PM Forum and Meridian West

Red Star Kim

Higher salary demands will put further pressure on profits/margins unless firms raise prices significantly (which some are doing). Whether the economy continues to decline (as expected) or starts to improve, I would have expected firms to be investing in ensuring future streams of clients, revenue and profits. The figures were 2.3%

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How can agencies make client relationships more profitable?, with Chris Merrington

Account Management Skills

In this episode we talk about making client relationships more profitable. He specialises in helping agency leaders and their teams negotiate more profitably. Now some of you may have vampire clients, because what they do is they suck the profitability out of your business. Welcome to Episode 53.

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Internal & External Analysis

OnStrategyHQ

Here are the three most common factors to consider as you conduct your internal analysis: Market Trends Market-level data, including overall size, projected growth, profitability, entry barriers, cost structure, distribution system, trends, and key success factors in your competitive market. What are the alternative channels of distribution?

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How to Define, Calculate, and Manage Sales Backlog

Hubspot Sales

More sales can mean more revenue and a bigger profit for your business. For example, unexpected downtime in a production line can cause a backlog, as well as difficulty with suppliers. Eventually, consumers will get frustrated enough to cancel these orders and potential profit will be lost. Sales backlog is unavoidable.

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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. The challenge is crisis teams are designed to take a broad approach to all events. Five-step Customer Crisis Plan. You don’t need to have all these roles on your team.

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Social Entrepreneurship: What It Is and Why Everyone's Talking About it

Hubspot Sales

They wrote a business plan, circulated the document to a bank, and worked tirelessly to scale their company and drive profits for themselves and their investors. Social entrepreneurs aren’t only concerned with profits. Entrepreneurs used to be those who had an idea, started a company, and made money. Actually, we’re a startup world.

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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

Arpedio

On September 15th, more than eighty Key Account Managers (KAM) assembled in Copenhagen and online for a hybrid event. SAMA is a global non-profit organization with more than 15,000 members. Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader? ? Back to blog. Basic alignment on value drives priority, success, and a long-term partnership.