Managing Customer Value
If you had to choose a single word to describe the dominant thinking in your marketing, what would it be? Showing, Telling, Learning, Collaborating, Empowering or… A very simple suggestion and very telling. If you review your marketing collateral can sort and organize them in a storyboard fashion. Then put them in columns and put a Read More …
The 5 Cs of Adjacency In the Funnel of Opportunity (https://business901.com/building-a-funnel-of-opportunity/) I discuss working from the known to the unknown. After “really” understanding our Core Customers…Clusters…Markets we can then start finding Adjacent Prospects…Clusters…Markets. When looking at Adjacent structures: 1. Connect: What people are the most accessible and similar to the core? 2. Concepts: What key jobs Read More …
Are you working on your Root Cause of Success? The old fishbone diagram on how I create a key account outline that I then group into clusters and eventually into adjacent prospects. Always working from the known to the unknown or as I call it the Funnel of Opportunity vs a Funnel of Depletion. According Read More …
This is a not so simple exercise I use when working with customers in a Business Development capacity. We work from the known to the unknown in an iterative fashion. We do this initially for our Core Value Stream, Key Accounts, Key Segments, Key Markets and in that order. If you can complete this, I Read More …
Technology is amazing. I have worked with primarily SaaS type companies over the past 5-years and amazed at the technology advancements and sophistication during this time. There seems to be no end to technology. Even adding to this is the amount of sophistication that has gone into the analytics and not only do we have Read More …
[arve url=”https://youtu.be/gB0mnLUv-UU” thumbnail=”24538″ /] In the Funnel of Opportunity, we think about marketing in the reverse order. We start with our core customer and core value proposition. With a start-up, it is with our beachhead market. When we start our marketing with core customers; things begin to change. We create better relationships and a higher level Read More …