Planview

JANUARY 12, 2023

For professional services, this means your revenue number will go up, but you’ll be stretching your resources and adjusting business models to scale operations while maintaining profitability. In this blog, I will discuss three strategies that professional services executives must consider to ensure profitable growth in 2023.

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Engage Selling

APRIL 24, 2012

Colleen Francis, President of Engage Selling Solutions www.engageselling.com says “ The lesson for executives responsible for an organization’s top line is that you need to understand what your customers value. They love the Apple brand and don’t mind paying the premium that leads to huge profits.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

A value proposition helps businesses identify what sets it apart from competitors. But how can you tell if your business activities are creating the most value for customers and a great profit margin? A value chain is used to describe all the business activities it takes to create a product from start to finish (e.g.,

Food and Beverage 142

Food and Beverage Logistics Suppliers Profitability 142

Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Identify customers' problems and needs. Define your niche and its profitability. Define your niche and its profitability. If you're dedicating your resources and time to a new business, it's important it has the ability to become profitable. Customer values and interests. Customer location.

Marketing 144

Marketing Profitability Brainstorming Meetings 144

Customer Think

APRIL 11, 2023

In today’s highly competitive business landscape, many companies are focused on cutting costs to improve profitability. While cost optimization is important, businesses must be careful when it comes to customer experience (CX), as it can have a significant impact on the lifetime value of customers.

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Insightly

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

CRM Models: How They Can Boost Customer Profitability. These strategies underpin the process of managing customer data, helping to ensure you make the most of the information you gather. At its simplest, CRM involves keeping track of end-to-end customer interactions across their lifetime journey. What Is CRM?

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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Lean management is a systematic approach to eliminating waste and optimizing processes to maximize efficiency, improve quality, and enhance customer value. Optimizing processes is crucial for organizations because it directly impacts their competitiveness, profitability, and overall success.

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PandaDoc

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Understanding how pricing impacts profitability is crucial for businesses. Pricing analytics uses data to provide insights into customer behavior, market trends, and competitor strategies — ultimately helping businesses set prices that maximize revenue and meet customer expectations. What is pricing analytics?

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Kainexus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The ideas and tools broadly apply to any organization that wants to maximize customer value while maintaining profitability. The approach was built on concepts included in the Toyota Production System, which helped Toyota gain a stellar reputation for quality and affordability.

Healthcare 87

Healthcare Manufacturing Construction Profitability 87

Customer Think

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Value Centers are what were traditionally thought of as cost centers. Later we tried to make these profit centers. They really need to be value centers. Some companies have tried to convert these into profit centers. This then converts service users into advocates of the company, increasing its sales, and thereby profits.

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Zendesk

MARCH 21, 2022

Every executive in the world spends part of their day wondering how to make their products and services stand out while still turning a profit. In this piece, we cover: Value chain definition. Benefits of value chains. Porter’s value chain. Value chain vs. supply chain. Value chain vs. supply chain.

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Kainexus

JUNE 21, 2022

Lean is not a prescription for running a business; instead, it is a set of ideas that provides structure to the fundamental belief that continuous improvement is the only way to successfully compete and deliver customer value for a profit. They work best when used together, but each provides value even when used alone.

Healthcare 83

Healthcare Manufacturing Profitability Customer Value 83

Hubspot Sales

APRIL 13, 2021

Successful price optimization is a matter of finding the sweet spot between valuable and lucrative — a balance that can have a major impact on your sales, customer satisfaction, profits, and achievable growth goals. It requires research to understand both your customers and your business. Define goals and constraints.

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Upland

JANUARY 29, 2024

Account planning focuses on your customers first—and the sales numbers follow. By gaining a thorough understanding, sales professionals can tailor their offerings to align precisely with what the customer values most. It’s a crucial practice that identifies the most viable and profitable opportunities.

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Customer Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

So much is written about value and about customers, and customer value. Likewise, money is spent on creating value. A given percentage of corporate profits has to be spent on CSR. Most CSR spending is not relevant to creating value for the company, other than as a […].

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 2, 2019

This can put a burden on research and development teams, product manufacturers, and even your profit margins. Its target customer values social responsibility, and the company takes it to heart. These effects are felt more by smaller businesses who have few employees and limited resources. Product Differentiation Examples.

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OnStrategyHQ

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Do any need to be sunsetted due to poor profitability? Here is a short list of suggested internal data you’ll find useful to your growth strategy work: Past 3 Years Revenue & Next 3- to 5-Year Forecast – Revenue by customer segment, revenue by product line/service offering. How are current products/services performing?

Marketing 98

Marketing Supply Chain Media Profitability 98

ClearPoint Strategy

JULY 28, 2021

The four perspectives for for-profit organizations include: Finance. The customer value proposition should be at the core of your strategy, which is why it comes directly after the financials (or mission). For-profit companies typically focus on achieving one of these three value propositions: Product leadership.

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Value chain analysis lets you pinpoint the costs and values of every aspect of your business so that you can put your best foot forward and increase your profit margin. In this article, we’ll take you through a full explanation of value chain analysis and how it can guide your company toward a more profitable future.

Logistics 52

Logistics Procurement Profitability Supply Chain 52

OnStrategyHQ

MAY 1, 2023

What do our customers value most from our organization? What do our customers value most from our organization? How do we uniquely serve our customers? Market Profitability Projections For each major market, consider the following: Is this a business where the average firm will make money?

Suppliers 105

Suppliers Supply Chain Energy and Utilities Organization 105

MTD Sales Training

MARCH 19, 2019

Also, MTD offers a sales negotiation course that it can help your team conducting profitable sales negotiations. But if you include these elements, it will help you build a firm foundation on which to build: Understand what the customer values most in the negotiation. Preparation. Identify the facts, rather than just opinions.

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Customer Think

MAY 8, 2023

Of course, companies want to sell more…their definition of value is more sales, more profits (and more waste or unnecessary consumption at the consumer’s end). They hardly look at the value the customer perceives. This increased value to these consumers and to the company also.If

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Jermaine Edwards

MAY 18, 2020

The big idea is this… What your customer bought from you today helps them get to where they might want to go today, but it doesn’t always reflect who they’re trying to become. A software company selling digital print solutions to a large engineering company maybe helping solve a range of challenges; cost savings, profit maximising etc.

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Jermaine Edwards

MAY 18, 2020

The big idea is this… What your customer bought from you today helps them get to where they might want to go today, but it doesn’t always reflect who they’re trying to become. A software company selling digital print solutions to a large engineering company maybe helping solve a range of challenges; cost savings, profit maximising etc.

Key Account Management 130

Key Account Management Account Management Decision-making Leadership 130

Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The goal is to maximize profits while also considering consumer and market demand, making it something to constantly monitor. These simulations offer insights into the long-term sustainability of the current pricing approach and suggest proactive adjustments before revenue losses or customer churn become significant, she says.

Construction 52

Construction Profitability Acquisition Decision-making 52

QYMATIX

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Customer Lifetime Value Definition for B2B. Sales and marketing B2B experts define customer lifetime value (CLV or often CLTV), lifetime value (LTV) or lifetime customer value (LCV) as the net profit attributed to the entire customer relationship. Now, to the formulas. First, the NPV.

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Zendesk

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Most customers will end up interacting with both sales and customer service. But in many teams’ perspective, the customer experience with sales has nothing to do with the experience with service. This is where companies start losing profit. Incorporate customer values into the company culture.

Sales 98

Sales Customer Experience Profitability Meetings 98

Zendesk

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Creates a customer advocate to help evangelize the value of your company and products or services. In this guide, we’ll cover 16 ways to connect with your customers, with examples and tips on how to put it into practice. Learn what your customers value. Build a customer-centric culture. Create empathy maps.

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Mercuri International

JULY 1, 2021

Given that one of the ‘keys’ to KAM success is offering a personalised, expert customer offering and knowledge of the customer’s business, it’s vital that a KAM is able to leverage the very best resources, solutions, services, expertise, skills and people that his or her company has to offer – and thus competition for these assets is tough.

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Key Account Management Value Proposition Account Management Profitability 64

QYMATIX

MAY 27, 2024

Companies are constantly looking for ways to increase their efficiency and profitability. If required, the ERP data can be supplemented with customer interactions and market trends to increase the accuracy of the forecasts. This enables sales teams to make targeted recommendations and maximise customer value.

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Planview

AUGUST 16, 2022

A connected services organization is one in which systems, data, work, people, and customers are integrated and aligned, in order to establish a critical link in the organizational chain that joins customer and solution value. Enhanced Customer Experiences. Greater Profitability. Optimized Resource Management.

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QYMATIX

MARCH 19, 2024

Powered by AI and predictive sales software , dynamic pricing is one of the most potent instruments in this battle for relevance and profitability. Imagine a world where your prices adapt in real-time based on customer behaviour and historical ERP sales data, ensuring you stay competitive, maximize profits , and make customers happy.

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Jeffrey Gitomer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

If you make a big sale and the customer calls for help and gets a grump in accounting or shipping, you lose. Price pressure has lowered your profit for the past three years. Get back to profitability. Become active in all aspects of business social media to communicate customer value not just your sales offerings.

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Liston Witherill

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Pricing creativity is an important determinant in profitability and the long term sustainability of your firm, too. But that’s not the goal of value pricing. So what is the goal of value pricing? Instead, the goal is to focus the firm on creating extraordinary customer value. Read on to the end to find out.

Profitability 52

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Mercuri International

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Several studies have shown that companies with high levels of trust have more loyal customers, do more and more profitable business, get customers who recommend them, have shorter sales cycles, higher revenues and greater market value than companies with low levels of trust. And so, it is with business relationships.

B2B 52

B2B Profitability Suppliers Decision-making 52

QYMATIX

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Customer Lifetime Value Definition for B2B. Sales and marketing B2B experts define customer lifetime value (CLV or often CLTV), lifetime value (LTV) or lifetime customer value (LCV) as the net profit attributed to the entire customer relationship. Now, to the formulas. First, the NPV.

B2B 40

B2B Profitability Customer Value Acquisition 40

Apptivo

JULY 4, 2023

This data is useful for finding profitable target markets and allocating resources strategically. This data-driven approach allows the owner to optimize expansion potential and maximize profitability. This data enables them to identify sales professionals that excel at rapidly and effectively concluding high-value transactions.

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