Data is great and often very important but, if presented badly, can be incredibly dull. In this lesson, presentation expert Simon Morton, explains how to select the data you need.
Being Eros in a Logos world
C-Suite are mainly motivated from a Logos point of view. In this lesson, Thomas Barta, a C-suite marketing consultant to many Fortune 500 CEOs, sets out the challenges for marketing leaders who are more naturally Eros, in a Logos world
Should you embrace Co-Opetition?
When Google and Apple are such fierce rivals, why would Apple make Google the default search engine on its iPhone? In this Vlog, Grant explains why embracing your rivals can make good commercial sense.
Context is King
Would you pay £3.00 for a can of Coke? Your instant answer may be ‘No Way!’ but in this vlog, Grant explains why you may willingly hand over the £3.00 and how that relates to your own business.
What’s important in building a business to sell?
If you are looking to build a business which you eventually want to sell, what are the things you should be thinking about, almost from day one? In this, the last lesson of the series, Guy Rigby – a chartered accountant, entrepreneur, author, mentor and advisor to dynamic owner-managed businesses – sets out the steps towards a profitable exit
What Is Your Smallest Viable Market?
What size of marketplace do you need in order to grow your business, before your marketing budget runs dry? In this Vlog, Grant explains why you need to understand your Smallest Viable Market.
The importance of effective teams
To remain consistently successful, every high performing organization ideally needs a team that works effectively together. In this lesson, Brian MacNeice, an expert on driving improvements in performance focus and culture in high performing organisations discusses the insights that he gleaned into teamwork from looking at the organisations he studied.
What Is Psychographic Targeting?
Traditionally, marketers segmented their markets by geographical location, ethnicity, marital status, age, etc., but that doesn’t mean that everyone of a particular age thinks the same and has identical needs? In this Vlog, Grant explains that today, if you want your message to resonate, you need to understand what makes your target market tick.
What is phase 5 of brain-friendly selling? Closing the deal
In the 1970s, salespeople were taught to build the hype and then go for a variety of very clever closing technique near the end of a presentation. In this lesson, Simon Hazeldine MSc., an international consultant in the areas of sales, negotiation and leadership, explains that neuro selling all about doing the complete opposite.
The Attention Economy
There was a time when companies would create products and services and then go and find a marketplace in which to sell them. But times have changed. In this Vlog, Grant explains that today, it’s the companies with the customer’s attention that win.