Becoming Part of a Market versus Marketing to a Market

When deciding how to enter a market, it is important to pay attention to existing trends, customer needs and desires, competitors, and your business capabilities. A new market entry can be a long and difficult process if you don’t properly assess the risks and opportunities that come with it. Here are some strategies for joining Read More …

The Role of the Critical Friend in a Marketing Action Research Project

Marketing Action Research (MAR) is an emerging qualitative methodology that helps marketers solve problems and test ideas with customers. MAR involves collaborations among marketing, research, and other departments to conduct experiments with customers. Companies use these experiments as “action” steps in solving a problem or testing an idea. In each of these steps, you need Read More …

Customer Engagement Planning

How can you make your company’s customer experience more delightful? How do you engage customers to turn them into loyal advocates? Engagement is vital to any organization that wants to grow its business. After all, how can you make customers feel special if they don’t know why they should care about your brand or service? Read More …

Promoting Sales Discussion with Action Learning in Sales Meetings

Sales discussions are one of the best methods of fostering active learning and promoting learning in companies. The discussion allows people to share their ideas and learn from each other and, ultimately, from customers. Skills are learned through discussion that can be used in real-world situations. In the simplest definition, action learning is a process Read More …

Core Strategies of Successful Appreciative Inquiry Salespeople

Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Community Appreciative inquiry has gained traction as a unique sales playbook. This is because it focuses on the customer and their needs instead of the product or features offered. As such, buyers feel they are being heard and understand how the solution will Read More …