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Preparing for 2024: Is Your Marketing Funnel Integrated with Your Sales Funnel?

Chief Outsiders

Final article of the 7-part series: Accelerating Growth In 2024 with Strategic Business Planning By: Scott Wright and Jack Bowen In the relentless pursuit of growth, businesses often find themselves at a crossroads - a bustling marketing funnel generating a stream of leads, yet somehow, the path to conversion seems elusive.

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What Tech CEOs Get Wrong About Positioning

Chief Outsiders

If you are a CEO that is lamenting slowing sales and lagging growth at your company, it’s tempting to place the blame directly at the feet of the sales team – those well-intentioned front-line soldiers who are responsible to turn your solutions into the bucks that feed the company growth.

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The Real Profit Behind Business Books: Key Findings from 350+ Authors

Peter Winick

Profit is more about strategy than sales alone. Books with a robust launch plan, PR efforts, or even ghostwriting support outperform those without. in revenue—not just from book sales but from lucrative add-ons like speaking engagements, consulting, and workshops. Authors don’t make money on book sales.

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The DO’s and DON’Ts of Kicking Off Strategic Planning Season

GMC

For senior management of growing businesses, Labor Day marks the end of scheduling around vacations and a transition into strategic planning season. Ideally, strategic plans can be completed and used as input for operating budgets late in the year. So autumn can be perfect timing for plan updates.

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Strategic Life Planning: Jean St. Pierre’s $100 Million Journey

SME Strategy

Jean shares his compelling story of building a $100 million business, losing it all, and then rediscovering his path through deep introspection and strategic planning. Pierre , the co-founder and chairman of the Rhombus Group.

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The 3 Pillars of an Effective Data Management Strategy: Monitoring, Tracking, and Reporting

SME Strategy

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. The success of your organization is heavily reliant on its ability to effectively implement its strategic plan.

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Business Coaching Through the Stages of Business Growth

Jackie Nagel

During this stage, business coaching focuses on client acquisition with an emphasis on creating predictability in marketing, sales, and planning. (We You can thank the clash of resources between client acquisition/sales and operations for this anxiety-inducing moment. We love predictability.). Stage Two: Expansion. Guess what?

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