Using your Marketing HourGlass to determine your Constraint

Another way of using the hourglass is to determine the number of prospects(inventory) that you need in each part of your hourglass. This is tremendous opportunity to really understand what is taking place in your process and will enable you to determine what is and what is not working. Where is your bottleneck or if Read More …

The Marketing HourGlass

This is a simplified version of how a hourglass would look. As you can see the natural progression of the flow (know, like, trust… flow to the right), the enablers or information to move the process forward is provided above each step. Taking a group of current customers, you can identify this in your current Read More …

Using Theory of Constraints in Marketing

Do you remember the novel The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeffrey Cox? One of the unique things about this book was that it created a variety of cottage industries with one of the most obvious using a novel, a story to introduce a problem solving concept. You can think Read More …

5 Step Process to Lean Marketing

Lean Marketing is a strategic methodology to streamline and automate the marketing processes in order to improve efficiencies through waste elimination. True lean companies strive to eliminate, not minimize all waste in the process. Most think of this as only a manufacturing or administrative function. This rule can apply when implementing lean marketing as well. Read More …

Has your Marketing Tools Changed?

My webinar Marketing your Black Belt requires a little homework first and thought I would just post it to my blog. Has your tools changed in your marketing? A take-off on the old McGraw-Hill Advertisement. Thanks to David Meerman Scott for the lead to the video. Related Posts: Marketing your Black Belt How I would Start Marketing Read More …

Overview of Marketing your Black Belt Seminar

I was asked for an overview of the Marketing your Black Belt Webinar and the easiest way to distribute it is through my blog. Several items to note are that it is a bi-monthly webinar(2x per month), and that it is designed for both the Lean Six Sigma Consultant and Consulting Organizations that use these Read More …