article thumbnail

How Leading Finance Executives Drive Transformative Growth

SBI Growth

SBI recently held its first Chief Financial Officer Growth Forum to bring together like-minded finance executives to discuss common challenges and share best practices with their peers. These growth-focused CFOs gathered in an intimate virtual setting to discuss the following.

Finance 133
article thumbnail

The Plain English Guide to Equity Financing

Hubspot Sales

What is Equity Financing? Equity financing is a type of funding that allows you to sell shares of your company to investors. In equity financing, investors might receive common shares, preferred shares, or the same voting rights and treatment as founders. But what does it really mean to land financing for your startup?

Finance 105
article thumbnail

THE 10-K FILING: THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT THAT SAMS NEVER READ

Strategic Account Management Association

1 In fact, many of them admit their meetings were a total waste of time. is that, in the same study, 80 percent of these same sales reps actually believe they’ve had a successful meeting!2 So how do I judge if MY meeting with an executive was successful?”. It means they didn’t prepare for a CXO meeting.

article thumbnail

Managing Partners’ Forum – Highlights from the Advisory Board Meeting September 2023

Red Star Kim

The Managing Partners’ Forum (mpfglobal.com) holds quarterly meetings of its Advisory Board where senior leaders discuss issues pertinent to the professional services sector. This confirms the vital contribution of the professional services sector at a time when growth in the UK overall is flat-lining.

Meetings 130
article thumbnail

How Aramex’s Young SAM Program Provides Strategic Value and Impact

Strategic Account Management Association

Commercial Excellence: supports organizational and talent needs, develops and makes available dedicated competency models meeting the requirements of the SV&I organization. Strategic account management has broad impact and cannot be an initiative for the commercial organization alone.

article thumbnail

17 Best Business Email Templates to Get New Clients & Boost Sales

Hubspot Sales

They're typically sent following initial conversations, meetings, or proposals (shocking, I know.) According to Finances Online, 64% of recipients decide to open or delete emails based on subject lines — so how you structure your subject line is pretty high stakes when crafting business emails. Spend some time on the subject line.

article thumbnail

The Best Way to Prepare for an Executive Presentation [+ Checklist]

Account Manager Tips

In a survey of senior executive buyers, Forrester Research asked if sales people are frequently prepared for their meetings. In fact between 70 to 80 percent feel vendors are not prepared for their meetings with senior level executives. The good news is senior executives want to meet with you. What do you think the answer was?