Estimating Your Sale Cycles

As most know, I think a few of the mapping methods used in the process fields are somewhat ludicrous when applied to sales and marketing. One of my favorites, of course, is Value Stream Mapping. It is, one of the applications that I see people try and try again to use thinking it can be Read More …

Spend Your Time Where Customers Are

Part of The Lean Minute Collection on YouTube Don’t think about WHERE you should stick your next ad or send your next newsletter. WHERE is about the communities that you spend your time in. Successful marketers today spent their time in the business that their customers are in. The simplest way to do that is Read More …

When Should a Start-up Start Marketing?

Would you re-write a book that has sold 35,000 copies in its first year? That is exactly what Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, did with his book,Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth. This is an excerpt from next weeks podcast with Gabriel as we help launch the new version of the book next Read More …

Am I asking too much from a respected Lean Company?

Goods Dominant Thinking still resides in this Lean Manufacturer  I have addressed many Lean Manufacturers through the years about applying Lean to Sales and Marketing, and the truth is that it has been a dismal journey to say the least. The areas of software and services mixed with Lean Startup and Agile principles seem to Read More …

Is the Value in the Conversation versus the Proposition?

A value proposition describes the value that your products/services offer those who purchase them. It states the compelling reason people buy from us. The stronger we make the proposition through quantifying it during the sales process the more likely we will get the sale. The statement(s) can be governed by Social, Emotional or Functional values. Read More …