Tag: Sales
What Happens in GreatVines Stays in GreatVines
Articles, Sales Execution
“The key to this business is personal relationships” — Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) quoting famous (but fictional) sports agent Dicky Fox
We live and work in a relationship-driven business. The key drivers are not merely…
What Happens in GreatVines Stays in GreatVines
Articles, Retail Space Management, Sales Execution, Trade Promotion
“The key to this business is personal relationships” — Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) quoting famous (but fictional) sports agent Dicky Fox
We live and work in a relationship-driven business. The key drivers are not merely…
3 Ways to Simplify Training and Start Executing
Articles, Sales Execution
The best sales reps in the industry all have their own way of working that they become very comfortable with. But even the best aren’t maximizing their selling opportunities. An important part of our training is showing how GreatVines…
How GreatVines made the “Shift” to faster data processing
Articles, Data Analytics, Events, Sales Execution
Redshift is a massively parallel processing (MPP) columnar database system that was recently added to Amazon’s stack of cloud services. It is often brought up in the context of “Big Data” (think: scanning through Petabytes…
Business Impact Launches a Cloud BI Solution
Articles, Data Analytics, NewsThis week we launch our Business Intelligence solution for the cloud – Business Impact’s SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution. Clients often ask us, why BI in the cloud? What does business intelligence in the cloud do for my organization? …
How to use Surveys to Improve Execution at Retail
Articles, Retail Space Management, Sales Execution
Lots of companies do surveys. Surveying is important, especially at the beginning of key selling periods to drive execution, but most companies do it all wrong and waste the effort they put into the survey.
You have…
Convenience Stores Perform Market Basket Analysis To Increase Profitability
Articles, Data Analytics, Retail Space ManagementOne of the most valuable pieces of information in the Convenience Store industry revolves around your customers’ buying habits, their market basket analysis. Understanding your customers’ behaviors to develop effective merchandising strategies…
Wine Depletion Data and its Influence on the 3 P’s
Articles, Data Analytics, Retail Space ManagementHow important to you is knowing your actual inventory level with your distributors? Or knowing which product is being sold out of which retailer? Some may say, not very, since your books already reflect a sale. Others may reason that it’s…
SQL PASS Summit Keynote
Articles, Data Analytics, EventsTHANK GOD! I’m watching the keynote at SQL Pass and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 will allow us to ask for simple data we would never ask for and to graphically map it or chart it we would never want. No assistance on helping users join data from…