Sales and Marketing
Developing a Global Strategy
Once you’ve decided which foreign country you’d like to enter, it’s time to develop a strategy for how to successfully penetrate the market and create an immediate impact on sales for your business. Here are a few steps that I suggest taking to ensure you’re ready to take your business international.
Why Would I Pick You?
Marketing 101 is that you need to understand how you’re different from your competitors. It is perfectly logical: if you cannot differentiate yourself in terms of what you sell, how you sell it, or why you sell it, the only differentiator left is price.
Shooting from the Lip
Customers don’t want a knee jerk reaction. They don’t want the rehearsed response. They want to invest their time with people who are prepared, who are ready to engage in high impact conversations about their businesses.
Are You More Focused on Acquisition or Retention Marketing?
Even though it’s a fact that it costs less to retain customers than to go after new ones, a new Econsultancy study shows a difference in where organizations are focusing versus where they should be focused.
How to Make Branding Pay Off For You
Your brand is your company’s reputation. It incorporates every touch point from within your company and outside of your company. It is how the principals, shareholders, customers, suppliers, and employees interact with the company.
Is Your Online Reputation Scaring Potential Customers Away?
When using the Internet to find a company, a consumer is not only looking to see what services and products are offered—they are also looking at those companies’ reputations via reviews and testimonials.
7 Tips for Entrepreneurs Who Like to Work Alone
You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. You need to have business relationships with team members, investors, customers, and a myriad of other support people. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply.
7 Ways Small Businesses Can be Thought Leaders
You can picture your company leading the way and serving as an example for other companies—but you aren’t quite sure how to reach this level of success. You know that your company has the expertise and experience, but how can you effectively share that knowledge with professionals in your industry and your target market?