thru Adaptive Marketing Practices
I am not surprised but still amazed at this statistic. Two-Thirds of Small Businesses Go it Alone for Marketing More than half of small business owners say that generating new customers is a challenge for them, yet nearly two-thirds say they do not use outside support for marketing assistance, according to a survey of US Read More …
I recently contributed a blog post to the American Express Open Forum that included this list. If you would like to read the entire post, please go directly to the above link. My first question would be, “Is your marketing team disciplined enough?” How do you find out, start with this conversation: Is there a Read More …
Marketing should be effective, efficient, and innovating, while focusing on understanding the customer’s needs. If we keep these thoughts in mind, we will only produce materials of value to a customer and only give the material to the customer when he needs it versus a constant barrage of information. The lean marketing assessment will provide Read More …
Capturing metrics that will provide information on the quality of the deliverables and the processes used to create the deliverables. The following process can be used to come up with the appropriate metrics on the project. This process will result in the creation of a Project Scorecard. Identify criteria for success. Review the objectives and Read More …
I did a Lean Marketing Webinar on 5S and broke it down into an overview and 5 segments. Each segment will be posted during the next 5 days. The segments are, you guessed it: Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, Sustain. If you want to review the entire series go to MarketingwithLean.com Technorati Tags: Lean Marketing ,Marketing Read More …
by Paul Dunay I think Seth Godin outlined marketing’s Catch 22 best in his book The Purple Cow (and I am paraphrasing here): When times are tough the tendancy is to conserve capital vs. when times are good the tendancy is to not be aggressive. As marketers we are so often faced with the dilemma Read More …