Posts Tagged “Business growth”

What are going to be your strategic pillars or themes for 2012?

Last year at this time, I wrote about my Three strategic pillars for 2011. This was inspired by Seth Godin’s post Year in review, Lyn Thain’s post here, and an idea from Chris Brogan about themes. Chriss suggests that what works for him is to pick and focus on 3 themes in your business and [...]

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What’s going to make you stand out?

I’ve had a couple of conversations over the last couple of weeks that have concerned strategy, what it is and what businesses and/or people need to do to get a good one. The first conversation was with my friend, Mark, who was telling me about a corporate client of his that was bemoaning the fact [...]

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Do Grameen Bank and Facebook offer lessons on how to scale a customer centric business?

This is one of my favourite quotes of all time: “You can have everything you want in life if you will just help enough people get what they want’ Zig Ziglar from his 1975 book ‘See You At The Top‘ So, when I heard the following: “The point of business is not really to make [...]

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Recruit the best employees, and the customers will recruit themselves.

Over the last couple of days, I have been thinking about businesses that I have experienced before and what I have liked about them, what made them great and what made me want to use them again. Pondering this, a memory of a time that I first lived in London in the mid-1990s came back [...]

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Customer Experience, Back to Basics and Creating a Customer Focused Business – Interview with Syed Hasan of Responsetek

This is the fifth in the series of interviews with business leaders in the ‘customer’ space, leading authors, thought leaders and general all round good guys and gals, that I think that you will find interesting and helpful in growing your businesses. Previously, I spoke to Scott Gould of Like Minds, Aaron+Gould and Scott Gould [...]

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