Sales – Are Stretch Goals about Outcomes or Refining Processes and Creating Better Strategies?

Sales involve understanding how your products/services affect customer outcomes while building a sales strategy to establish how this value is recognized. This requires understanding customer needs and how your product or service can address those needs. It also means clearly understanding your “value proposition” – what makes your product or service unique and valuable to Read More …

Ways To Manage Customer Value

It’s no secret that customers are the lifeblood of any business. Without customers, businesses would soon cease to exist. This is why it’s so important to manage customer value effectively. Each of these methods can help you stay engaged with your customers and learn about their needs and desires. By keeping in touch, you can Read More …

Product Development: Developing Strategies Based on Assumptions

To truly understand the customer experience, brands must consider their product development strategies. These strategies dictate how products will be designed, developed, and marketed to shape their value proposition. The key to understanding your customers’ markets is having access to reliable market data. Fortunately, there are a number of sources of market data, including surveys, Read More …

What Do You Know About Your Customers’ Markets?

It might seem like a rhetorical question, but how much do you know about the markets your customers serve? What are the latest trends in those markets? What hidden value patterns can you uncover by categorizing data from those markets? Understanding your customers’ markets is essential for trend development and uncovering hidden value patterns. By Read More …

Analyzing Customer Discovery Interviews

One of the key contributions of the theory of emergence is its emphasis on the importance of interactions between the lower-level elements of a system. In organizations, these lower-level elements are typically the individuals who make up the group or team. The emergence theory suggests that the interactions between these individuals are the key to Read More …

Applying The Principles of Effective Action Learning to Your Marketing Activities

Action learning (also known as experiential learning) is a teaching method of having learners participate in a real-world situation, complete activities under direct supervision, and reflect on their experiences afterward. It works fairly simply—participants are invited to collaborate through key questions. The goal? To inspire action, catalyze ideas, and transform interactions internally or with customers. Read More …