by Rick McPartlin | Mar 24, 2017 | Culture, Marketing, Sales, Strategy
There is only ONE thing that assures a business will survive long enough to thrive over the decades. That ONE thing is to continuously produce more profitable revenue. Once an organization stops producing more profitable revenue, it becomes insignificant and then...
by Rick McPartlin | Mar 17, 2017 | Culture, Marketing, Sales, Strategy
The answer is – you don’t! Or you don’t unless what you sell is a pure commodity and you are trying to prove that even though your price is higher than a competitor your total cost of ownership is lower. In that case you want to do an ROI spread sheet, however in over...
by Rick McPartlin | Mar 13, 2017 | Culture, Marketing, Sales
Myths are “partially true evidence” and for the last 100 years the myth was that buyers/customers got their value from products. Certainly, we can see where the myth started. Imagine my car runs out of gas I will get value from the product (gas). Right? If the gas...
by Rick McPartlin | Mar 10, 2017 | Cost of Chaos, Directional Unification / Alignment, Revenue Growth, Sales
In the 21st Century a company’s greatest risk and opportunity come from the complexity that is “Revenue Generation”. That complexity is multiplied by the extreme and rapid change impacting the market, the economy, the technology, the generations of buyers...
by Rick McPartlin | Mar 8, 2017 | Classics, Sales, Structure
Every now and then we look back at our articles and see some that we consider CLASSICS. They were relevant then and are relevant now. This is one of them. Every one of us is responsible for “Revenue Generation”just like we are responsible for...
