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What Others Are Doing

Many businesses are focused on their efforts to move to that “next level” of performance. “What Others Are Doing” is designed to share some of the projects we have recently completed or are now working on, as well as programs that are representative of what some leading companies are doing to increase sales and marketing productivity.

  • Scorecard System
    An incentive system that balanced individual accountability and teamwork while it rewards Sales people for achieving targets in key business areas.
  • Promotion Effectiveness
    Best practices for promotion effectiveness for where and how trade dollars should be spent to increase the return on the marketing investment.

  • Organizing for 21st Century Sales & Marketing
    Creation of an entirely new organization that would increase the return on their marketing investment and operate more effectively and efficiently in the marketplace of today and tomorrow.

  • Best Practices in Merchandising
    A consortium working to identify ways of increasing the productivity of “Front-End”, check stand merchandising.

  • Customer Discovery Meetings
    A structured, team-based, problem-solving workshop including the manufacturer, retailer – the entire supply chain – to resolve distribution and on-shelf issues.

  • Automated Flexible Agenda Scheduling
    Improving the value of annual managers meetings.


 



 

NEW SURVEY:

Sales Force of the Future

Learn what’s most important to manufacturers and retailers – now and in the future – and how well manufacturers are performing.

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NEW RESEARCH REPORTS:

Retail Formats
in Transition

Which retail store formats hold the most promise? Read what the industry considers the “winners and losers” over the next five years.

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Will Recessionary Shopping Behavior Continue?

Read the latest research on consumer and marketplace reaction.

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Assessing Your Sales Resources

How can you determine the optimal structure for your sales organization? What new skills are required? This study provides information that can help.