The Benefits of Knowing Your Customers

As a business owner, it is essential to understand the importance of customer identification and why it is necessary for success. Knowing your customers is crucial for any business, as it provides insights into their preferences and behaviors, which can help guide decision-making and increase customer retention. With customer identification, businesses can obtain a holistic Read More …

Defining the Nature of Value in Data

Dr. Eric Reidenbach: No, I think you’re accurate. I think that there is a ton of data, and that’s why you need some overriding metric, if you will, or overriding paradigm such as a value paradigm which governs and directs you as to how you convert data into information. The big breakthrough that Gale has Read More …

Choosing Product Markets

Dr. Eric Reidenbach:  Exactly so. Let me back up just a little second on that too because you’ve raised an interesting point. In choosing those product markets, what you’ll probably want to do is to apply certain criteria, such as what is your current market share within that particular product market. What is the market Read More …

Putting the Hook on Customer Centric

The Five Habits You Need Bob Thompson is an international authority on customer-centric business management who has researched and shaped leading industry trends since 1998. Bob is founder and CEO of CustomerThink Corporation which includes being editor-in-chief of CustomerThink.com, the world’s largest online community dedicated to helping business leaders develop and implement customer-centric business strategies. Read More …

Dan Pink’s version of the World of Selling

I have been a Dan Pink fan for many years. His latest book, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, did not overwhelm me with new knowledge. I felt that the book was the sales version of his previous book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. There is not anything Read More …

Customer Monitoring 6 Sigma Marketing

The Monitoring (Control) stage is where you learn how to put monitoring systems into place to ensure that their competitive value proposition accomplishes what is intended. This control effort focuses not only on the more strategic value proposition, but also can be set up to monitor specific transactions such as sales, repairs, inquires and other Read More …