marketing

Customer Spectacles
Reading Time: 4 minutesWearing Your Customer Spectacles – How it can shift organisational behaviour. There is a moment in every organisation — usually subtle, often unspoken — when the internal truth drifts away from the customer’s truth. Leaders still believe they’re customer-centric. Teams still talk about value. Dashboards still pulse green. The strategy [...]

Wearing Your Customer Spectacles – SUCCESS Framework

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B2B eCommerce
Reading Time: 7 minutesBecause the Future of B2B eCommerce Isn’t Digital Transactions, It’s Digital Trust For the C-suite, B2B eCommerce is not a channel; it is a Commercial Operating System and a primary source of enterprise risk. To secure executive buy-in and investment, this transformation must address three core mandates: Strategic MandateC-Suite FocusQuantifiable [...]

The A to Z of B2B eCommerce

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From Pitch to Delivery - Where B2B Trust Breaks Down
Reading Time: 4 minutesWinning the deal is only half the battle – Pitch to Delivery Success is Key In the pitch room, the atmosphere is electric. Slides are polished, ideas flow, and promises are made with confidence. Customers nod along, excited by the possibilities. They say “yes” to the vision. But the true [...]

From Pitch to Delivery: Where B2B Trust Breaks Down

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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhy even the best proposition underperforms when your teams aren’t pulling in the same direction — and how to fix it. We Know What We Do. So Why Isn’t It Landing? You’ve got a strong product or service. You’ve invested in development.The customer results are great. And yet… Sales aren’t [...]

Your Proposition Isn’t the Problem — Your Alignment Is

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Strategy, Objectives, Goals, Marketing, Sales, People, Finance
Reading Time: 19 minutesStrategy creates context for operating decisions. It establishes the playing field and provides guidance for decision-making, the experience and skills needed by employees, positioning of marketing and advertising, the priority of initiatives, how to structure the company, and a many other issues. A plan is necessary to guide decision-making, channel resources, [...]

A to Z of Business Strategy

 in Business Skills / Leadership  tagged Business Planning / Goals / marketing / Objectives / Sales / Scorecard / Strategy / Vision by
Reading Time: 9 minutesWhether you’re a small business with a solitary Twitter account, a mid-sized agency using the latest social monitoring tools, or a huge enterprise with a multi-million pound cross-platform presence, at some point, we all will make mistakes with social media.   It’s OK to be honest and admit that you get [...]

#Fail – 11 Social Media No-No’s

 in Business Skills / Social Media  tagged Brand / Customer Service / Facebook / Google / LinkedIn / marketing / social-media / Twitter by
A to Z, Product Management, Ansoff Matrix, Market, Product Development 9
Reading Time: 16 minutesProduct management can be a complex and often misunderstood discipline in business. In reality Product Management in its broadest sense, touches every part of an organisation that sells products and services, and everyone has their part to play in the product life-cycle to ensure that customers get the best possible [...]

A to Z of Product Management

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Passionate, Ambitious, Reliable, Trustworthy, Straight Talking 6
Reading Time: 18 minutesThe Chartered Institute of Marketing defines Marketing as “The management process responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably.” I think I prefer Seth Godin’s description: The art of telling a story to a customer that they want to hear, that lets them persuade themselves to buy something. Inherent [...]

A to Z of Marketing

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