The Advantages of Managing Customer Value

While businesses continue to focus more and more on digital marketing, research shows that for it to be truly successful, it needs to be integrated into a company’s entire marketing strategy. Companies need to understand how they can effectively target their audience and ensure their message resonates with them. Customer-focused marketing is one way of Read More …

Developing Provocative Propositions; Short Statements that Describe the Desired Future

Sometimes, a compelling visual image may be enough to encapsulate the dream. However, groups often prefer to add a brief message, which can act as a purpose statement or summarize their strategic vision. The power of the Dream phase (The Starting Point for a Business Development Project) is that it encourages people to use the Read More …

Customer Discovery Interview: An Emergent Process for Sales and Marketing

A successful product launch involves not just a strong marketing strategy and appealing product design but also the team that is responsible for finding new customers. The ideal solution for this challenge is an emergent sales and marketing process that can be executed at different times, on different teams, and in different locations. However, while Read More …

Customizing the Outcome Harvesting Process

The Outcome harvesting Process needs to be customized according to the context. The steps are not always distinct, and feedback from one or more actions can cause a return to earlier steps. I used the steps outlined in this OUTCOME HARVESTING  PDF – INTRAC. https://www.intrac.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Outcome-harvesting.pdf From the PDF: Outcome harvesting is a monitoring and evaluation methodology Read More …

The Interaction Field Model – How to Create Unstoppable Velocity

The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society, Public Affairs (September 15, 2020) by Erich Joachimsthaler was a book I read several years ago and just recently opened back up for review. Instead of re-reading the material, I took a stab at writing an outlined based on Read More …

Rules for Constructing Causal Sales Theories

Sales theorists have long debated the most effective way to construct causal sales theories. Or, have they? The most common approach is to identify a set of variables known to affect sales outcomes and then develop a model that describes the relationships between these variables. However, this approach has several drawbacks. First, it is often Read More …