Growth Insights for CEOs

Turning Customer Insight into Customer Value
Executive Takeaways
- Your next major deal may begin with a customer problem you have yet to uncover.
- Deep customer insight can open doors to executives—and accounts—competitors already serve.
- The greatest opportunities emerge when insight meets distinctive expertise and solutions.
- Turning these opportunities into growth requires building organizational capability.
This blog is part of Chief Outsiders’ New Growth Imperative series, designed to help CEOs and leadership teams engage executive decision-makers at targeted strategic accounts by turning deep insights into compelling customer value.
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Seven Considerations in Evaluating your Marketing and Sales Process
Sun, Jun 23, 2013 — I just finished reading several books that come at the changes in the marketing and sales process from different perspectives. Launch by Michael Stelzner, discusses how to use social media to grow your brand and your business. It includes some very pragmatic tools and examples for the marketing crowd. I highly recommend it as a primer for anyone interested in how to optimize their social media efforts. Sales Shift by Frank Belzer presents how the buying process has changed and how it will continue to evolve. Of particular interest is Belzer’s discussion of why sales skills that have worked in the past will no longer be effective going forward. When considering the combination of these two perspectives, the transformation of the commercialization process is significant.