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Customer Value…The Ultimate Path To The Best Strategies, Products & Services
All strategies such as improving quality, enhancing service, lowering operating cost, changing distribution channels, altering the go to market approach, raising productivity through technology, discounting prices and so on depend on customer value. Why do strategies that are successful for some firms turn into abysmal failures for others? Why don’t some of the success principles […]
Find The Stealth Customer Value
Hidden customer value exists inside every customer and company selling to those customers that could increase sales and improve profit margins Customer value is the sum total of everything a customer knows about what you offer for sale and how it compares to the competition. Inside every prospect and customer exists stealth value… value that […]
Raise the Customer’s Perceptions of Value to Close More Sales
The More Sales People Know About What Affects Their Prospects Perceptions Of Value, The Better The Choices They Make To Close The Sale Closing the sale comes down to the choices salespeople make. As they go through their sales process, they make choices about what they do next based on what they know about the […]
Make The Value Visible: The Lawry’s Gong Story
Don Shapiro started his management career with Lawry’s Restaurants famous for Lawry’s The Prime Rib. In his speeches and workshops, he shares a story about how Lawry’s found a way to turn a cup of coffee served at the end of the dinner into a merchandising and marketing phenomena that helped spread word of mouth […]
Video: Hidden Customer Value, Pricing and Margins
Revenue Detective Don Shapiro of First Concepts Consultants talks about the increasing margin and price pressure many companies face today and the need to find more hidden value that could help close the sale at a profitable price. One of the best ways to increase sales is by raising the customer’s perceptions of value […]