Market towards Triggers

Trying to create prospects may be one of the most difficult and expensive components of marketing. Trying to find the path of people that want our service/product (since everything is a service, I will only use service from now on) is not the easiest chore in the world. If we know all the Dentists, Plumbers, Read More …

What will the 7th Era of Marketing bring?

I think, the people that are into this methodology can become the new marketers and new content leaders in the organization because quite frankly, this looks much more like a product development methodology than it does a campaign development methodology. If we’re building something of value – a blog, a digital magazine, a community, a Read More …

Digitize Your Traditional Business

The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age (Columbia Business School Publishing)  shows why traditional businesses need to rethink their underlying assumptions in five domains of strategy?customers, competition, data, innovation, and value. He reveals how to harness customer networks, platforms, big data, rapid experimentation, and disruptive business models?and how to integrate these Read More …

Service Excellence Stack

This is a collection of around ten Business901 Podcast Transcriptions that has a focus on Service Excellence. I did not include Service Design or Designing for Service. Guest include John Goodman, Joe Michelli, Kathy Cuff, Drew Locher and many others. Service Excellence Stacks are a new way to organize your own publications, as well as Read More …

A Roadmap for Your Value Proposition

The general thinking around developing a value proposition is that we all gather in this room and create a wall of post-it-notes through a brainstorming exercise, and then we (sometimes) iterate through testing our value proposition with customers. I know that may be an oversimplification but in most of my experiences, it is not that Read More …

Transitioning to Experiences

Robert Rose is the author of Experiences: The 7th Era of Marketing and Managing Content Marketing: The Real-World Guide for Creating Passionate Subscribers to Your Brand . Robert is the Strategist in Residence and brand advisor for the Content Marketing Institute, a featured writer, and guest blogger for iMedia Connection, CMSWire and Fierce Content Management. Listen/Download Read More …