Developing a Lean A3 Marketing Plan

  Creating a marketing plan on an A3, or a single sheet of paper in not much of a novelty. However, if you think for a moment about A3 reports and the traditional Lean Problems Solving A3, you will see a similarity on how I have organized the A3 Marketing Plan. In A3 Problem Solving, Read More …

How to Discover Opportunity

There is always an opportunity. However, there is not a step by step method. Innovators, Start-Ups, and even Scaling Businesses look for that formula and try to think of an effective and efficient way to go about it. The problem that exists is that most opportunities are not created they are discovered. You have to Read More …

Should You Wait for Membership till after the Transaction?

The membership economy is over and above just a transactional action. The transaction should be just part of the whole membership thing. Membership shouldn’t be — let’s say after the transaction. -jd Robbie Baxter: Right, exactly. This brings us into the whole idea of a Freemium Model, which is the idea that you can have Read More …

Pressure Test Your Brand – Put It On Paper First

If you can’t synthesize it, if you can’t put it down on paper, it’s really difficult to go forward. You save yourself a lot of money by the struggle of putting it down on paper.-jd Carolina:   Absolutely. They say that strategy is sacrificed, and you will be surprised when I do this work with entrepreneurs, Read More …