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Consultant Marketing Pillow Talk

Jerry Fletcher

And the worst part is our guide may not recall blurting out the methodology or special ingredient or whatever secret should have remained so. For instance, the interviewer in a pod cast asks how you accomplished a turnaround for a client or what process was used to save multiple clients. It happens. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel.

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A “Thing” That Really Works

The Fearless Marketer

This year I realized that a marketing thing I’ve always been good at was not something I was actually teaching to my clients. My first step was to implement this marketing thing even better to fill my next group program. Then I started teaching this marketing thing to the participants of the new program. And it worked wonders.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. Not all corporations need an agile methodology or this approach to metrics.

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. It’s for techies.

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Internal Hires Need Just as Much Support as External Ones

Harvard Business

He had spent his entire 14-year career at the company, had worked hard, and had rapidly climbed the ranks in sales and marketing. The culmination was his promotion to business unit leader for Plastic Resins, one of the company’s best-performing units. He inherited a strong team with a proven track record.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

Because of its adaptation to an online visual format, our methodology was able to communicate to Adobe team members in a way that aligned with how they engage their end users — through imagery and through analytics. Since its 2005 founding, the marketing company had grown to over 1,100 employees.