Here is a Method That is Helping Niche Businesses to Boost Sales
I have the pleasure of teaching entrepreneurship at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in NYC. Being a New York City based business school cloaked as a design/art institute provides fertile ground for discipline mash-ups. The attached article from FT.com details the rise of retail mash-up,
How to Build a Business that Works
One reason so many startups fail is that they either craft a business plan then shelve it at launch or worst yet slavishly follow it without adjusting when the initial assumptions are proven by the market to be invalid. Instead, entrepreneurs should take a page from the concept of lean manufacturing
What to Go Public But Can’t: This Method is Helping Growth-Stage Concerns Experience a Liquidity Event
photo via Flickr Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Without a $500 million valuation any business concern looking to go public is being forced to cool their jets. Numerous systematic changes, driven primarily by the consolidation of institutional investors and the subsequent emergence of
Warning: Magnitude 3.4 Rocks Pay TV Business Model
Want to stay out of the impending video content war, then hustle yourself over to the content development or customer interface ends of the value chain. The article (pictured below) that takes this position was posted on Gigaom last Saturday (Sept 24th). A few could argue that it wouldn’t roll upon
Content Providers Shifting Business Model
Chris Van Noy the Chief Media and Entertainment Strategist at Akamai talks about the future of downloadable entertainment, in particular the business models of Apple and Google and what it means for content providers and the consumer electronics industry.
Value is Job #1
Ran across the post below on the Wisconsin Technology news site WTNNews.com. It debunks (one of my favorite words) the myth that professional service businesses need not worry about being perceived and treated as a commodity. I know that this is something I've always circled back to several times
5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #40
As, always I’m looking to share with you quality information that helps increase our business development skills, enhance our level of business model innovation, and ultimately the quality of our professional relationships. While I never going into depth about the finds, I encourage you check them
Are You Trustworthy? – Seriously!
I just finished going through Jeff Thull’s most recent book “Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes Are High!” Jeff is a master sales consultant and this work beautifully lays out the three evolutionary phases of consultative sales. The Eras Era 1: The Presenting