February 2012
WJ: Customer Orientation and Selling, Marketing Failures ... and Recoveries
Business Selling: Choosing the Right Methodology
Tim Smith, PhD, Chief Editor
How should salespeople sell? Yes, they need to be well groomed (presentable), have a good people skills and a tough skin, and have an orientation towards action and winning. But assuming they have these basic skills, what specifically should they do?
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Corporate Icons Falling Like House of Cards
James T. Berger, Managing Editor
What do Eastman Kodak, Sears Roebucks, K-Mart and American Airlines have in common? They are all U.S. corporate icons on the verge of implosion and each one of these likely failures is through a fault of corporate marketing management. The rules for marketing are pretty simple. So what is “marketing?”
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The Resurrection of the Golden Goose
James T. Berger, Managing Editor
A few months ago, the future of Netflx looked quite bleak after a serious of pricing mistakes and the creation and destruction of a separate company for streaming videos without the mail component. Is there hope yet?
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Celebrating our 10th year of service to our readers.
From the archives
Netflix
Killing the Golden Goose – Part 2Killing the Golden GooseKodak
Eastman Kodak — Another Corporate Icon Fights to SurviveThe Hidden Marketing AssetSelling
Sales vs. Pricing and Large Account ManagementSales vs. Pricing and Strategic AccountsBetween Solution and Transactional SellingSolution Selling Tips
Dr. Wiglaf's Top 6
Progress can’t make itself. Make it.
- If you want to win, you have to be in the game.
- Who is your target market?
- What do they need?
- What is your distinctive competency in delivering to those needs?
- How will you communicate this to your target market?
- Being hardworking or smart isn’t good enough. I have to be able to give them something they want before they will value me. Wait, is that sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, or job seeking? It’s all the same in this regard.
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