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Case Study: From Divided Attention and a Lack of Accountability to a United Direction

All organizations if they last long enough will eventually plateau. They will reach a point where they’ve established brand recognition in the market, have loyal customers, and are perceived as a “traditional” brand. Usually, when a brand is described this way, it means that it is outdated but can still be relied upon for something.

This success should be celebrated and it’s vital that the leaders of the organization recognize that what got them there, isn’t going to take them successfully into…

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Guest Post: A Quick Start Guide to Improve Your Organization's Culture

Culture is not easy to build. It's even harder to change. Mark Scrimenti is a Fractional COO/CPO and Founder of Vivid Path Growth Consulting. This is his specialty. This is a shortened and modified version of a longer article that he wrote on his blog. You can check it out here.

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I don’t need to tell you how the pandemic and post-pandemic conditions continue to disrupt the workplace status quo. As a fractional COO specializing in small and m…

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How to Know When Your Business is Ready to Hire a Fractional CMO

A Fractional CMO offers a unique mix of flexibility, cost-efficiency, deep experience, and specialized expertise, adeptly filling the gaps left by the ever-changing landscape of traditional marketing roles. Through many conversations with founders and executives, we’ve identified some of the most common indicators that it’s time for an organization to hire a fractional CMO. The following six signs might indicate that your business is ready for a fractional CMO.

So how do you know you are ready …

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Scale Your Business Better: The TRANSFORM Stage

The goal of this stage is to focus on long-term clients and long-term growth. This is all about continuing to improve your client experience and identifying where your next best opportunity lies. The questions you'll ponder will be:

  • Will it be a new market, a new vertical, or a new product or service?
  • Will you expand your current offerings?
  • Will you seek to acquire another company?
  • Will you seek to be acquired?

This stage is about making opportunistic, long-range decisions. Your focus i…

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Guest Post: When "Astro" Teller, Thought Leadership, and The Challenger Sale Collide...

I don't often feature guest blog posts, but lately, I've been meeting amazingly talented leaders that I've changed my mind. Here is an article that will get you thinking from Valerie Cobb, fractional Chief Revenue Officer and the host of The Revenue Maze Podcast. If you haven't subscribed to it yet, I do recommend you subscribe today. And thanks for the plug Valerie!

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And Valerie Cobb says...

What happens when thought leadership, the former chairman and CEO of Google,…

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Scale Your Business Better: The GROWTH Stage

The goal of this stage is to be ready to scale and build a much bigger business. In this stage, your focus is on building a scalable infrastructure to improve your selling as well as how you deliver the products and services that you offer--customer experience.

You'll be focused on questions like:

  • How can I make this more efficient?
  • Is there a way that could be easier for me to do this?
  • How can I make fewer sacrifices (money, time, or energy) to complete this task?

Efficiency may sound …

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Three Rules For A Successful Marketing Campaign

The majority of new businesses fail in the market. According to some studies, up to 90% of businesses fail within the first year. Of course, this makes sense since, in order for there to be victors in business, the bulk must lose.

This is also one of the most important reasons why the majority of new firms fail. There could be a variety of elements at work here. Some go above their budget and allow costs to spiral out of control. Others hire the wrong personnel, while many others fail miserably w…

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Scale Your Business Better: The HUSTLE Stage

A better name for this stage would be “AHHH THERE’S ANOTHER FIRE”. You don’t know what you don’t know about your product, service, or market, yet.

This stage is all about identifying the actual problem that your product or service is intended to solve as well as the actual audience that is willing to pay for it. This is a reactive stage mainly focused on lead generation. All questions that need to be answered will fall into one of two categories:

  • Are you creating a solution that fits the mar…

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Scale Your Business Better: 3-Stages You Need to Know

What does it mean to scale your business?
How is it different from growing your business?
Is scaling the same for all businesses?

These seemingly common questions have very different answers. Growth and scaling are often talked about as if they were one and the same. But they're not and it's important to know the difference.

Scaling is about increasing revenue without incurring significant costs. The intention is that as revenue grows, expenses only increase incrementally. When an organizatio…

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It's Time to Abandon the Sales Funnel. Scale Your Brand with a RevOps Flywheel.

The sales funnel is dead—well at least it should be. Yes, many companies love them, but the reality is, that building your brand with a lead funnel approach is a lot like a dog chasing its tail. It requires a lot of energy, for short-term results. The second you stop, the momentum stops, and you’re left feeling unstable and dizzy. If that isn’t enough, according to Forrester, less than one percent of the leads that come out of the bottom of that funnel will be loyal clients. That’s a lot of time…

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