Sales, Marketing, & Entrepreneurship

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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From the archives

Netflix

Killing the Golden Goose – Part 2

Killing the Golden Goose

Kodak

Eastman Kodak — Another Corporate Icon Fights to Survive

The Hidden Marketing Asset

Selling

Sales vs. Pricing and Large Account Management

Sales vs. Pricing and Strategic Accounts

Between Solution and Transactional Selling

Solution Selling Tips





Dr. Wiglaf's Top 6

Progress can’t make itself. Make it.

  1. If you want to win, you have to be in the game.
  2. Who is your target market?
  3. What do they need?
  4. What is your distinctive competency in delivering to those needs?
  5. How will you communicate this to your target market?
  6. 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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