Roadmap for Customer Validation

I have always been a big fan of The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market by Treacy and Wiersma. I have seen little in other writings the past 15 years to displace their value discipline model which basically states that you must decide on which one of their Read More …

Value Stream Mapping your Marketing

I advocate the use of the value stream map to outline your customer’s buying process and to vividly demonstrate how your marketing efforts mimic that process. Consider the map as a tool designed to highlight activities. The current state serves as a guideline to communicate the opportunities so they may be prioritized and then acted Read More …

A Look at Innovation, a Different Angle

This is one of the few books that I not only listened to it, but afterwards purchased the hard copy.Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others is simply a good book. The author of Borrowing Brilliance, David Kord Murray, has an impressive résumé. Not only is he Read More …

Lean your Marketing by Dominating with Customer Value

I have the opportunity to offer this book on my website at a low introductory price of $14.99. Dominating Markets with Value will show you how value driven, nationally known organizations have harnessed the power of customer value analysis through a systematic and logical process of customer value management. The book provides an approach to Read More …