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[ # ] You are selling Success, What is Success for Your Clients?
October 18th, 2005 under Partners and Alliances, Product Management

Whether you sell a system to enable greater efficiencies and reduce costs OR you sell a gadget to enable better communications you are selling a component of success for your client. Do we understand what defines √¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ?Ä??Success√¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ‚Äö?묢 for your client?

If we are selling to a Production Manager, success is likely to be: interruption free, efficient production, attaining target volumes at the required quality levels. If your system allows the Production Manager to make any component of this work more efficiently what other components are needed to complete the full picture?

In understanding the full picture of success for our clients you can identify all the components of success.

Within this exercise lie two business development opportunities:
1) Identifying new products or services your company can develop and provide.
2) Identifying potential partners companies targeting similar clients to your business who share your interest in your client√¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ‚Äö?묢s success.

So get on with it - understand you Ideal Client and what defines “Success” for them


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[ # 2 ] Pingback from « Tom Raftery’s I.T. views [October 20, 2005, 9:11 am]

[...] As Donagh only has just started the blog, there is only one post up so far but I will be following it very closely ‘cos I know absolutely nothing about sales, marketing or productisation!!! [...]

[ # 3 ] Comment from Walter Higgins [October 20, 2005, 11:36 am]

Hi Donagh,

Welcome to the wonderful world of weblogging.
Here’s a few blogs I occasionally read - you might also be interested in them (mostly VC and tech/entrepeneur blogs).

http://blog.tomevslin.com/
http://www.feld.com/blog/
http://www.ventureblog.com/
http://bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/
http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/

Make sure you sign up to http://www.bloglines.com - it’s probably the best blogreader out there.

Best of luck.

[ # 4 ] Comment from Ed Byrne [October 21, 2005, 12:04 pm]

Hi Donagh,

Good luck with the new blog - knew Tom would get you on the bandwagon!

Look forward to getting lots of great business tips here.

Ed.

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