Planning and Tracking Your Marketing Activities

This is the last post in this series about marketing for the newly promoted. Here is what we have covered so far: How to talk about what you do Understanding what your customer really buys Understanding your customers buying process Cross selling – spotting other...

Networking for the newly promoted

Continuing the series on marketing for the newly promoted, today’s post is about networking. Networking is another one of those things that we are told to do, but we aren’t given a lot of instruction on how to do it effectively. Much of what I’ve already written...

Knowing which customers \ business to turn away

Why would a series of posts about marketing for the newly promoted include a discussion about turning away business? Mostly because it’s one of those things that everyone seems to learn the hard way. You are probably going to prefer to learn it the hard way yourself,...

Giving Referrals

Continuing on the theme of marketing for the newly promoted, today I want to talk about giving referrals. When we talk about referral marketing (newly promoted or not) most of the focus tends to be how to get referrals. I think we should put more focus on giving them....