Don’t Expect the Channel to Create Demand
• Your channel is an extension of your sales capability, not an extension of your marketing department • The channel supports, services and fulfils customer demand • Channels rely on the Vendor to invest in the brand, develop brand awareness, create demand, generate sales momentum and develop new market opportunities • Building buzz, creating a Tipping [...]
The Inescapable Digital Transformation: What’s the Future for Business leaders in 2013?
This week I had the privilege of listening to Brian Solis, Altimeter Group speak at l'Innovation au Napoleon Conference in Paris. Brian is a thought leader in the consumer revolution, the digital revolution, social media and the impact that these vectors of change will have on our lives and our businesses in 2013 and beyond. Brian is the author [...]
The End of Certainty: The Beginning of Creativity?
“The future ain't what it used to be.” - Yogi Berra We are in a period of massively disruptive and unprecedented change. One of the first victims of massive and disruptive change for many businesses today is certainty. There just doesn't seem to be enough certainty left in the world to go around. More than ever before we are [...]
Customer Adoption is the new ROI
Customer Adoption is the ultimate measure of Return On Investment. Period! I hear a lot of people talking about ‘Time to Market’, but I don’t think that this is what they really want to achieve. “Great, we have our new offer in market, but the channels aren't familiar with it.....yet", or "customers cannot find it [...]