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Questions you should ask with the Marketing Canvas
Marketing canvas is an easy yet powerful tool you can use for assessing your Marketing Strategy. It works for small and very large companies. It can be used by novices or experts. A list of key questions to be asked can be found in this article. Enjoy!
Why you need a bold question for your Marketing Strategy?
What is the best way to start defining the marketing strategy of your company, business or activity? My proposal is to start with a bold strategic question! Why?
Innovation Bootcamp @Besix
Please find below a video about the Innovation Bootcamp I co-created and facilitated with Solvay Brussels School for a great Belgian Company (they built the highest tower in the world in Dubai). Great team, great people, great energy and fantastic ideas.
Resources for Course on Customer Experience
List of resources (books, articles, video, website) that I recommend you to visit if you are interested in the Customer Experience topic. I am using these resources during my classes @SolvayBrusselsSchool and during workshops.
Marketers, You Should Unlock The Next Decade
As CMOs gain more power in the boardroom — and over technology spend — it will be critical that they understand the factors that drive success.
Nagle's 9 Pricing Sensitivity Drivers — And What Each One Means for Your Marketing Strategy
Most companies treat price sensitivity as a finance problem. It isn't. Each of Nagle's 9 drivers maps directly to a strategic dimension you can score, monitor, and improve. Here's the full breakdown.
Marketing Canvas - Job To Be Done
Customers don't buy products — they hire them to make progress. Dimension 110 of the Marketing Canvas explains how to define the job at all three layers (functional, emotional personal, emotional social), why it is a Fatal Brake for Category Creators, and the single diagnostic sentence that exposes whether your team actually knows it.
We are entering in a new world, Are you ready?
Some inspirations for helping you to understand that the world of tomorrow will CERTAINLY NOT be like today. 3rd industrial revolution, 4th industrial revolution, industry 4.0, World in 2050
Everyone in Your Marketing Meeting Thinks Their Project Is a Must-Have. Here's How to Prove What Actually Is.
You have been in that meeting. Twelve initiatives, all marked "priority," and no agreement on what to actually do first. The MoSCoW method gives you better language for the conversation. The Marketing Canvas Method gives you the evidence to end it.
How to Assess your Marketing Situation With the Marketing Canvas?
One clear objective of the Marketing Canvas is to facilitate debate and discussion around a clear strategic challenge question. Most of the specialists of the leadership topic agree that one of the key reason why strategy is failing is because the decision that has to be made is unclear! When you do the strategic marketing exercise, you need to be crystal clear about which question you are trying to answer.
Interview by Scott King
In this episode, Laurent and Scott talk about overcoming marketing complexities and the risks involved in growth marketing. We touch on influencer marketing, artificial intelligence and questions his students ask him about marketing evolution.
AI is Changing Marketing
Excellent article from Andrew Stephen on Forbes about Artificial Intelligence and how it is changing Marketing. 4 main highlights (extracted from the article I invite you to read)
Marketing Canvas 2.1 (New version)
The Marketing Canvas is evolving. We have changed 2 main dimensions as it reflects more the Marketing reality.
Listening in the Marketing Canvas
Listening is the first and certainly the most important component of the Conversation in the Marketing Canvas. Before talking, you should first systematically listen to your customers and prospects? Are you doing it? Actively?
Marketers, How Technology Enhances Creativity?
Technology does not quell creativity, in fact, there’s a great deal of evidence that suggests that technology enhances creativity. Certainly, we are expected to be more creative in our working lives than a generation ago. The truth is that by expanding possibilities and automating part of the creative process, we can all be more creative and productive.
Marketing Strategy in Context
If you want to design the marketing strategy for your business, you should first start to analyse where you will play. What does it mean? It means that your product/service will be associated by consumers/buyers with other alternatives they have on the market (maybe no alternative exists which means that you creating a new category also referred as a blue ocean).