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Marketing

Unless your marketing messages:

  • Attract customers willing to pay a premium to get what you offer
  • Drive away ‘prospects’ who don’t value what you offer

You’re wasting a lot of time, energy and money on your marketing.  This assessment will help you determine how effective your current marketing messages are.

There are no ‘correct’ or ‘incorrect’ answers.  That language in the assessment is a software limitation.  The goal of this self-assessments is to enhance your understanding of how you can improve upon what you’re already doing.

Marketing Self-Assessment

My messages paint pictures of what my customers aspire to when using my offerings.
Examples of results other customers have gotten appear in my marketing messages.
My marketing message leads with who we are.
My messages have a call to action.
My marketing messages discuss buyers' pain or dreams.
I sprinkle ordering information throughout my marketing messages.
My messages talk about what I or my offerings do.
My marketing messages enhance my brand image.
My messages make logical arguments for choosing my offerings over my competitors' offerings.
Potential buyers can, within 30 seconds, know whether or not they're interested in my offerings.

If you’re not attracting the right customers, give me a call at 314-707-3771, or send me an email, and we’ll remedy that situation.

White papers

Is Strategic Pricing Dead?

Price Elasticity Analysis: A Wasted Effort

Competitive Price Intelligence: Boon or Boondoggle?

The Value Pricing Chain

Services

Strategy Assessment

Psychographic profiling

Strategy development

Profitability analysis by product line/customer

Monitoring services

Books

Pricing for Profit

The Uniqueness Myth

Making the EXCEPTIONAL Normal

7 Steps to Becoming INVALUABLE

Brand Promise: What Do YOUR Customers Expect?

Training, coaching and facilitation available on all book topics.

Results

Construction
Process improvements and a 12.5% price increase raised margins from 24.8% to 53.5%

Manufacturer
Structured the renegotiation of a contract with a Fortune 500 customer. My client and his customer explored more than a dozen iterations of my original proposal before agreeing to the terms I had originally suggested.

Entertainer
Identified and directed this entertainer to a market that valued what he offered at 5 times the amount the previous market did.

Toxic waste disposal
Created a bidding template that allowed owner of rapidly growing business to hire a sales force for this highly-specialized industry.

Training company
New product, new markets - quantified value of offerings, developed product positioning statements, sales scripts and got the firm 1.5 times what it had originally thought the price should be.

Testimonials

Dear Dale,

I wanted to thank you for the advice you gave me. I also enjoyed your book, Pricing for Profit.

I wanted to let you know that using your Pricing for Profit concepts, I initiated a double digit price increase to my embroidery clients. We hadn’t raised prices in over 2 years and were badly in need of an increase. I have to admit I was concerned that I'd lose business.

I got push back from my two largest customers, but after providing some information about the value they were receiving I retained both of them. I never lost a customer, and sales are actually up since the increase. Thanks again. Jeff Charlton, President, Graphic Connections Group

More testimoials

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