Sustainable Competitive Advantage

  • What are your competitors really up to?
  • What do your customers & prospects really want?
  • How do you build a sustainable competitive advantage in your market?
  • Where is there scope to innovate across your business?
  • How do you feed insights and creativity into the everyday business?
  • What strategies would exploit the resources you have to best effect?

Marketing messages

What is the essence of your business? What do you do? How do you go about it? What value do you produce? How are you different?

To determine and convey your brand requires discipline in your thinking. Can you identify the important things? Have you pinned down the authentic areas of your excellence? Can you put them across with compelling, distinctive communications?

If you really can identify and expound your purpose, prospects start buying, everyone who meets you becomes an advocate, people are inspired, pride builds, and the numbers stack up. It’s called success.

Web exploitation

For some this would include all the other sections. It’s a big topic. Let’s just be clear we’re talking about website design, build and support, Search Engine Optimisation, internet marketing strategy – content, code and link strategies (directories, articles...) blogs, sales copy and conversion, use of social media.

I also emphasise collaboration (intranet, smart sourcing supply chains, partnering) and tools (software as a service, cloud computing services...).

The internet has and is changing everything. How should you determine and exploit the internet opportunity for your business?

Why not call to discuss the issues you are tackling and to see if we can help you to address them?

To see how we can help your company grow call: 0845 003 8292

'Phew!' The most dangerous sound in marketing

Posted by: John Kavanagh Posted Date: 26/10/2010
It’s only human. Busy people put in an extra effort and eventually it’s done; the new website is finally finished, the brochure is out, the tender has gone in, conference attendees have melted away happy and you can pop the cork and toast a tough job well done…
Posted In: Business Growth

What does your client want from your salespeople?

Posted by: John Kavanagh Posted Date: 20/10/2010
That’s right, not what do you want but what does your client want from your salespeople? It matters because the most important factor in business to business sales is not price. It’s not (six sigma or whatever else) quality. It isn’t innovative features. It’s not the ability to deliver total solutions. It’s you – the salesperson.
Posted In: Business Growth

Business in 4-D

Posted by: John Kavanagh Posted Date: 06/08/2010
Many companies operate in less than four dimensions. Some are one-dimensional. I believe you need to keep (at least) the following four dimensions in balance to sustain growth: Dreams, Data, Design, and Delivery. What happens if they’re out of balance? How do you fix it?
Posted In: Business Growth