When developing marketing or business development systems, you must consider how to influence prospects so they make decisions in your favour. In Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Cialdini) and Yes (Goldstein, Martin and Cialdini), Robert Cialdini examines how...
Prospect analysis, or knowing what’s important to our prospects when they’re making a buying decision, is critical to becoming marketing driven. “If you want to know why John Smith (or Jane Smith) buys what John Smith buys, you’ve got to see the world through John...
The next step in marketing system development is to create a Positioning/Differentiation Strategy for each target segment. The Positioning/Differentiation Strategy dictates how you will present yourself in your chosen market segments, and how you will clearly...
Business owners and executives often tell us if they can just get in front of a prospect, they’ll almost always “close the sale”. Based on our experience, people tend to overestimate their close rate success. Most businesses don’t even measure close rates, but if they...
When business owners and executives ask us which marketing tactics work best; advertising, direct marketing, internet marketing, trade shows, etc., our response is to ask them about their growth objectives. What do growth objectives have to do with marketing? The...
