A very simple answer to the question, “What does your customer think about all the time?” is: THE FUTURE! The customer thinks constantly about the future. In fact, since you’re a customer, too, consider how often “the future” is what you think about. For example, we may be motivated to get an education so we […]
Month: April 2013
USPS Clothing – Why this is a terrible idea!
The U.S. Postal Service has announced it’s licensing a clothing line in 2014 as a way to boost revenue and to help reposition its ailing brand among consumers. This kind of thing is a common way for companies who have strong brand equity and favorable brand associations to leverage that brand into additional revenue. So […]
A toast…to the AMAOKC (Again!)
Sometimes being dead wrong can turn out to be a good thing! When the idea last year for doing an evening event at the Oklahoma City Chapter of the American Marketing Association came up, a banquet-type event (translation: labor-intensive event!), I was skeptical at first, and I said so. I did it in the same […]
How the ancients used to overcome objections…
Working to make a sale or otherwise win someone to your way of thinking? Encountering resistance or an objection is just part of the journey. How you handle it will determine whether you are to succeed in influencing the other person or be rejected altogether. An old (let’s instead call it “time-honored”!) model for handling […]