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How much does it cost to win a sale – more than yesterday?

Sales Training Connection

Bain published a particularly interesting article noting that historically companies in the B2B market – “consistently grew their revenue faster than their sales and marketing expenses.”. Profit margins are under increasing pressure. But that was then; this is now. Over the last decade the game has begun to change. Utilization.

Margin 112
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Psychological Pricing and the Big-Time Boost It Offers Businesses

Hubspot Sales

Even if you're assigning value to your products based on a tried and true pricing strategy , supported by competitive analysis and market research, there's still another dimension you might not be considering — human psychology. In 2003, researchers from MIT and University of Chicago conducted an experiment about pricing in retail.

Retail 103
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The ROI of RFID in the Supply Chain

The ROI Guy

Eliminating out-of-stock conditions via better RFID product tracking, inventory visibility and forecasting can have an immediate impact on top-line revenue by retaining lost sales and recapturing lost market share. Longer-term, RFID can help create new revenue generating applications and innovation to help grow market share.

ROI 40