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How Much are Your Customers Really Worth?
Customer Loyalty provides remarkable value to a company. Beyond statistics of retention and referrals, how can loyalty be measured in long-term worth? Understanding ways to estimate the Lifetime Value of your loyal customers can help offer long-term perspective.
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Be a Purple Cow
It is important to have a good understanding of where your company stands in the mind of the customer, otherwise known as the “position” your product/service has in the competitive marketplace. Are you positioned the way you want to be, or are you just a brown cow – invisible and boring?
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Make Your Marketing Pay Off
Bring fundamental analysis into your strategic marketing efforts, by integrating ways into your campaigns to track your Return On Investments. Like any management function, managing your marketing requires proper process and measures to make sure your spending is hitting the mark.
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Outperform Your Competitors (Spanish)
EL DESEMPEÑO SUPERIOR DE UNA COMPAÑÍA UNA MEJOR RELACIÓN CON LOS CLIENTES UNA VENTAJA COMPETITIVA La competición para obtener acceso a los bolsillos y al dinero de los consumidores es intensa y a consecuencia [...]
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Outperform Your Competitors
If you want to out perform your competition and keep your customers coming back, implement one basic business strategy – focus on your market. This means taking customer focus to a higher level and having a company-wide strategy that is not only customer focused, but is also market focused.
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Three Ways to Growth
Customer knowledge you already have is literally a hidden goldmine of profit that can grow your business and increase your company’s top line. It is this customer-focused information that will provide the foundation for generating more sales, retaining and cross-selling customers, and acquiring new customer business.
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Strengthening Your Strengths
From a strategic perspective, you should not spend time itemizing the laundry list of everything your company does well. In fact, sometimes this can bog the planning process down. You want to identify the strengths that matter. Everything else is just icing on the cake.
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Checking Your Profit Margins or Start Making More Money
Are you ready to make more money in your business? Who isn’t? The secret to making more money: Stop doing things that lose money. Now, before you roll your eyes, don’t overlook the simplicity of this statement.
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Building a Lasting Organization
To endure the test of time for your company to be great, your competitive advantage needs to be sustainable. Why? Because most advantages can be duplicated within a period of time, and process improvements quickly follow. And everyone knows competing on price is never sustainable.
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Ten Things to Keep Your Strategic Plan from Hitting the Shelf
More often than not, life and day-to-day operations take over a well-intentioned strategic plan implementation. Embed your strategic planning into daily operations and you begin to make strategy a habit instead of an event. Here are ten quick ways to keep your strategic plan from hitting the shelf and collecting dust.
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Where is Your Company Headed? How are You Going to Get There?
A company’s strategic plan is the “game plan” management has for positioning the company in its chosen market arena, competing successfully, satisfying customers, and achieving good business performance. If you are part of the 90 percent that do not have a strategic plan, here’s how one can help give your company the direction you desire.
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Ten Common Causes of Business Failure
Failure is a topic most of us would rather avoid. But ignoring obvious (and subtle) warning signs of business trouble is a surefire way to end up on the wrong side of the business survival statistics. From interviews and experiences of our business network, M3 Planning highlights ten causes of business failure.
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The Ten-Step, One-Day Strategic Plan
A strategic plan does not have to be perfect or 100 percent complete: It is a living document after all. It doesn’t have to be an overwhelming or a monumental task. Just grab a few key people in your organization, turn off the phones and let’s get started.
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Strategy Books
Our list of helpful references within the realm of Strategic Planning.
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Leadership Articles
Sample the wisdom from these four articles and gain insight on how to lead during challenging times, how leadership strategically can deal with drastic change, how strategic processes require strong leadership, and learn the nine areas of technique to help make strong leadership decisions.
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Thinking Strategically
Strategic planning, strategic thinking, and strategy making are all exercises in strategy. See article reviews on each and gain more understanding about how each exist within your Strategy Toolbox. It’s all about improving your bottom line and organizational health in a concerted effort at key phases.
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Talking Points in Support of Strategy
At the end of the day, high-performance organizations accomplish extraordinary results, and they do it with ordinary people. The key to achieving is to structure an organization so ordinary people can regularly accomplish outstanding things. Enter a strategic plan.
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Strategy Tools
Great online and traditional media resources can help you give a holistic approach to your Strategy Planning. See our links to relevant topics from meansbusiness.com, entarga.com, and Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ics.hbs.edu).
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