We have heard about popular marketing buzzwords, such as "customer centric", "low-hanging fruit" or even "viral marketing" but these buzzwords do not necessarily represent effective marketing themes or stories. A book that further discusses this issue is “Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing”.[...]
Mind the tag! Setting the right price for your services & products
In over 10 years of working in an IT-related field I've seen major progress in company images, external and internal partnerships, even in the way companies promote themselves. A single chapter remains overlooked: the price!!!
The Power to make your Point or Successful Corporate Presentations
This marketing tip is different from the ones about strategic planning and focuses on minor actions, which can have great impact on marketing and sales. It refers to corpoate presentations, in particular the famous slide-shows or Power Points.
The Power to make your Point or Successful Corporate Presentations
This marketing tip is different from the ones about strategic planning and focuses on minor actions, which can have great impact on marketing and sales. It refers to corpoate presentations, in particular the famous slide-shows or Power Points.
Do you benchmark your company against "the best ones"?
Tough the analysis of competition is important, it's just as important to choose the examples to fallow. You'd be amazed to discover that others before you have been facing, 90% of the time, the same challenges you have to overcome, the same problems you come across, and some dealt with them successfully. Thus, all[...]
Do you find it more and more difficult to sell? Than STOP doing it! You only need to help your customers buy…
Marketing systems that generate guaranteed sales results (II)
Who is your customer? or... B2B market segmentation!
There’s so much literature about customer segmentation, that I had to fight with myself to actually write about this and not just dump a page full of links on this topic J But then, I pulled myself to it because segmentation does not work properly with many projects. Why? Because some “minor” detail will accidentally[...]
Who is your customer? or... B2B market segmentation!
There’s so much literature about customer segmentation, that I had to fight with myself to actually write about this and not just dump a page full of links on this topic J But then, I pulled myself to it because segmentation does not work properly with many projects. Why? Because some “minor” detail will accidentally[...]
Where do you look for more revenue streams? How about your own portfolio of products and services?
Every so often I get clients wanting the moon for their business… isn’t the marketing consultant’s purpose you’ll ask? Well if you start from “underground” it’s gonna be a bit more difficult to reach the moon, especially when you’re not sure where exactly you at are within this distance.