25 Aug 2016 | Business development, Customers, Marketing, Sales and marketing, Thinking and Decisions
How to find innovations and exploit them
27 Jul 2016 | Business management, Business services, Business strategy & planning, Sales and marketing
Does benchmarking deflect you from your real purpose?
8 Jun 2015 | Business services, Marketing, Sales and marketing
Marketing changed forever with the advent of the internet, social media and smart devices.Marketing automation allows us to consolidate all the isolated data and use it much more effectively to engage with prospects on their terms and in a timely fashion.To continue...
29 Apr 2015 | Business development, Business management, Business planning, Business strategy & planning, Sales and marketing
Roger Martin put it well in his Harvard Business Review blog. It translates well for small businesses.He is right – whatever the new faddy idea, it’s still either lower costs or a differentiator that works to provide competitive advantage. Nothing...
29 Jan 2015 | Business development, Business management, Business strategy & planning, Marketing, Sales and marketing
A maximizer tries to produce the best result, which may mean spending time and effort in improving only marginally an already acceptable result. How marginal? A day out in Spain at a little village, being walked around every possible shop with 2 young children looking...
16 Dec 2014 | Business development, Business management, Business planning, Business services, Business strategy & planning, Business structures, Customers, Sales and marketing
Not enough admin, and assuming the best