Becoming Customer-Focused

"Strategic Marketing, Sales, and Customer Service"

Use Systems Thinking to focus your entire organization and culture on the customer—both external and internal customers.

YOU WILL:

  • Define, build, and sustain your positioning in the marketplace vs. the competition.
  • Learn how to become a customer-focused, world class organization.
  • Develop strategic marketing and sales plans, programs, and accountability.
  • Understand the competitiveness triangle and needed strategic marketing research for superior customer results.
  • Review the research-based customer-focused 15 commandments of marketing leaders.
  • Discover the crucial importance of a "customer-recovery strategy."
  • Explore "common sense" selling—focus your sales force and increase your rate of closes.
  • Discover how to locate and meet the customer's "unarticulated" needs.
  • Learn how customer service has two dimensions—both crucial, but different.
  • Discover why most strategic planning teams are naturally internally focused and how to change that quickly and permanently.
  • Explore customer measures that drive organization-wide change.
  • Assess the current state performance of your marketing and sales strategies, actions, programs, 4Ps [?] and accountability for 21st century success.
  • Learn how to "think dumb and think differently"—like a fox!
  • Define the similarities and contrast the differences between marketing and sales.

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Strategic Marketing and Sales Planning

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