How to Get More Customers and Grow Your Business

How to Get More Customers and Grow Your Business

Do you want to learn how to get more customers for your business? Do you have a viable marketing plan that focuses on attracting new customers? Persuasive marketing is the key to getting more customers. While Byron Sharp, the author of How Brands Grow, believes that marketing to new customers is the perfect solution to growing a brand, there’s also evidence that focusing on existing customers is beneficial for your business. Here’s how to get more customers while also retaining your existing ones.

How to Maximize Your Customer Appeal: The 4 Rules

How to Maximize Your Customer Appeal: The 4 Rules

How can you make your offer appeal to your target customers? What are some things to keep in mind as you design your marketing message? Once your business has something of value to offer, you must think about how to make it appeal to your target customer. The product might meet the customers’ needs, but it’s appealing marketing that makes people buy it. Here are some tips on how to maximize your customer appeal.

The MVP Test: How Lean Startups Learn From Failure

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What is an MVP test? How does an organization use the MVP test to improve? An MVP test is a way to test out a product by building out a prototype or stripped-down version of the product and then gathering feedback to act upon. The author of Black Box Thinking uses the minimum viable product test as an example of how learning-oriented institutions grow from failure. Keep reading to find out how lean startups use MVP tests to gather feedback.

5 Public Speaking Techniques to Elevate Your Speech

5 Public Speaking Techniques to Elevate Your Speech

Do you want your speech to leave a lasting impression? What can you do to “wow” your audience? If you want to give your speech an extra oomph, think creatively and don’t shy away from unconventional methods. By doing something out of the box, you’ll ensure your speech stands out and leaves a memorable trace in your audience’s minds. Here are the five unconventional public speaking techniques to elevate your speech.

How to Grow a Brand & Beat Competitors in the Market

How to Grow a Brand & Beat Competitors in the Market

Do you want your business to be the best in its field? Do you want to know how to grow a brand through great marketing? According to Byron Sharp, the author of How Brands Grow, growing a brand relies on a fixed pattern that focuses on attracting new customers, rather than keeping existing customers. He also claims that memorable branding is an essential part of this pattern, as it keeps customers thinking about your brand. Continue reading for Sharp’s advice on how to grow a brand and more information on the pattern of brand growth.

What Is Price-Fixing? The General Electric Case

What Is Price-Fixing? The General Electric Case

What is price-fixing? Can it be successful? What companies have engaged in it? Price-fixing happens when companies collude to increase their profits by agreeing on a price instead of competing for contracts. Despite the clearly stated laws prohibiting price-fixing, in 1961, 29 companies in the electrical manufacturing industry—most notably General Electric (GE)—were found guilty of repeatedly engaging in the practice for years. Continue reading to learn more about price-fixing and this historic case.

The Book Black Box Thinking: Here’s the Key to Growth

The Book Black Box Thinking: Here’s the Key to Growth

What is the book Black Box Thinking about? How does black box thinking drive human progress? In the book Black Box Thinking, the author argues that collecting data, analyzing data, and learning from failures drive human progress. The idea comes from airlines that use black boxes as in-flight recording systems.  Keep reading for more about the book Black Box Thinking. 

Memorable Branding: 3 Strategies to Boost Your Brand

Memorable Branding: 3 Strategies to Boost Your Brand

Do you want people to remember your business’s brand? How can you implement memorable branding into your marketing strategy? In his book How Brands Grow, Byron Sharp claims that the most effective way to market your brand is to increase the likelihood that consumers will think about it. You can easily create memorable branding in just three ways: advertising regularly, creating recognizable brand assets, and expanding your brand’s reach. Let’s go more in-depth on Sharp’s three memorable branding strategies.

A Learning Organization Is Built Off These 3 Techniques

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What is a learning organization and why do you need one? How do you successfully build one? A learning organization uses failures to improve its operations and innovate solutions to tough problems. According to the book Black Box Thinking, clarifying feedback, breaking down the problem, and finding opportunities to innovate are the most effective ways for you to build a learning organization. Read on to learn about the top three techniques you can use to build a learning organization.