Increase Sales–Take Better Notes

Have you ever reviewed your sales people call notes? Don’t look at what they put into the CRM look at those raw notes they captured during the conversation, the raw footage. The importance of capturing information is so valuable, and one of the most underdeveloped traits that a salesperson or even many support staffs have. Read More …

Need to Change a Behavior Consider The Machine Project

AM+A has more than 30  years as a leading firm in user-interface development (planning, research, design, implementation, evaluation, documentation, and training) for Web, mobile, vehicle, and desktop applications in consumer and professional products/services. Aaron Marcus lectures around the world on critical issues, best practices, and future trends in user-interface design. AM+A serves the mobile, vehicle, Read More …

Go Global, Go Viral, Start Local

In a recent podcast I ask @ekaterina (Ekaterina Walter) about going viral. It may not be the answer you would expect from the author of The Power of Visual Storytelling: How to Use Visuals, Videos, and Social Media to Market Your Brand and Think Like Zuck.. Related Podcast and Transcription: Visual Storytelling with Ekaterina Excerpt Read More …

The Funnel of Opportunity

In most sales and marketing schemes we like to build what we call a Sales Funnel or Marketing Funnel. In the service world, we have learned to create customer journey maps. Both serve the purpose of trying to manipulate a customer through this selective path to arrive at the ultimate goal that WE DESIRE FOR Read More …

The Fit between Design Thinking, Agile and the Lean Startup

Jim Kalbach is a Principal UX Designer with Citrix Online and an active speaker, writer, and instructor on business design, user experience, and information architecture. He has helped starting local UX groups as well as organize conferences in Germany and Europe. Jim is the author of the book Designing Web Navigation an O’Reilly Publication. I Read More …