What You Need To Know About Marketing

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‘Organizations filled with people who take the time to understand the needs of buyers they wish to reach, and then develop information to educate and inform those buyers, are more successful than organizations that just make stuff up.’

‘Marketing needs to be the buyer expert, not just the product expert.’

Marketing generates attention of the many people who make up a buyer persona, whereas sales communicates with one potential customer at a time, putting the buying process into context.’

‘Educate and inform instead of interrupt and sell.’

‘Smart companies understand that people have choices of whom to do business with, and they are transforming the way they sell and service to customers.’

Great service means more repeat sales and happy customers sharing their experience, which results in faster growth for your company.’

Customer service is how an organization helps customers before, during, and after a purchase and can range from customer support and handling complaints to professional services that enhance a product experience.’

When a company delivers a fantastic experience to the market, it serves as the best sales strategy there is.’

Each time you email a customer, you should be providing content of value. You should always be giving more than you are taking in a relationship with a customer.’

Your salespeople should assume that they are the last place a buyer goes, not the first. They must assume that very little of their knowledge is proprietary. They need to facilitate the sale, not control the information.’

‘While marketing is the provision of content to many potential customers, sales and service are now about the provision of content to buyers one at a time based on their needs.’

Source:

David Meerman Scott (2014). The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business

What Makes A Great Manager

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‘People who lead teams can foster integration by acting on values, structures, processes, and people.’

‘For leaders, it’s imperative to shape the behaviors that impact the individual and group performance of an organization.’

‘The team leader needs to offer well-defined strategies, plan work meticulously, monitor team processes scrupulously, provide detailed feedback, and recalibrate actions and roles when need be.’

‘Team leaders become more effective when they are able to establish multiple relationships with target actors that are instrumental in generating team members’ motivation.’

‘Interestingly, achieving or surpassing team goals can give rise to over-confidence, and with it comes the risk of complacency and a drop in motivation.’

‘It’s important for a coach to be thoroughly familiar with all the roles in the organization in order to make collaboration easier and to get a different perspective of the team and the work being done.’

‘To trigger the drive to improve, a precondition is a culture of learning, sacrifice, and constant practice.’

‘What lies at the heart of motivational team coaching is the leader’s ability to enhance the cooperative aspect of social interdependence among team members.’

‘The greater the social interdependence in the group, the more positive influences there will be.’

‘The capacity to perceive and acquire the information needed to run the team also depends on the quantity and quality of the interactions between the coach and the athletes.’

‘Group norms are vital because they enhance team cohesion and improve performance.’

Source:

Paolo Guenzi and Dino Ruta (2013). Leading Teams: Tools and Techniques for Successful Team Leadership from the Sports World