Real industry data for your marketing plan

A simple add on feature to Marketing Plan Pro that is available to you: Improve your marketing plan with five years of financial statements, key business ratios, and more data for your industry and locality It’s a question we hear all the time. Where can I find the market research data that I need to Read More …

What is best practice?

Best practice, I always wondered who determined that?  NIBAC’s President Craig Crook was Joe Dager’s guest on his show Connecting Your Passion. Craig’s company is a Learning Center and as Craig calls it -Learning faster than your competitors is the only sustainable advantage. Technorati Tags: Lean ,Lean Marketing ,Lean Six Sigma ,Six sigma marketing ,Manufacturer Read More …

Lean Six Sigma – Implement

In my previous post on Lean Six Sigma marketing , I had stated Implement, the new process under a control plan, was the 5th step in building a Lean Six Sigma marketing process. I also stated that in the Duct Tape Marketing planning system that the Service Experience coincided with the definition of Implement. How Read More …

What is Lean Six Sigma

Review the video to see what TQM expert Craig Crook has to say about Lean Six Sigma. Technorati Tags: Lean Six Sigma ,Six Sigma ,Manufacturers ,Quality ,Marketing ,Manufacturer Marketing ,Lean

Lean Six Sigma & Marketing

Laying the ground rules for my upcoming posts, I will use the what I believe is the traditional approach to Lean Six Sigma, the DMEDI process. Skipping over DMAIC and DMADV and I am sure other initials are out there that may be applicable but I like the DMEDI. So what is it: Define the Read More …

Sales Calls, sounds like an opportunity

A classic study of sales calls made by Dartnell and McGraw Hill produced the following fascinating statistics: 1.  80% of all sales are made only after 5 or more contacts 2.  48% of all salespeople give up after the first contact 3.  25% give up after the 2nd contact 4.  17% give up after the Read More …