Keys to Creating Demand using Activity-Based Sales

Keys to Creating Demand using Activity-Based Sales

Creating demand isn’t about forcing products into markets—it’s about meaningful, strategic engagement on topics that genuinely resonate with your target audience. Activity-Based Sales (ABS) shines in this area, offering a structured framework that aligns sales teams...
Evaluating Ideas: Criteria to Foster Customer Intimacy

Evaluating Ideas: Criteria to Foster Customer Intimacy

When developing Service Chains™ it is important to evaluate their business value and your ability to implement them in the market. At McMann & Ransford, we recommend tracking the following criteria to help foster customer intimacy:Strategic...
Leading with Ideas: The Key to Customer Intimacy

Leading with Ideas: The Key to Customer Intimacy

Let’s take some time and discuss the power of ideas and their importance as the central component of a True Solutions™.  Good ideas facilitate the road to true customer intimacy. A solution is the embodiment of an idea – and how the idea can be...
Marketing & Customer Intimacy

Marketing & Customer Intimacy

In the simplest sense, marketing has a direct role in market strategy, participation strategy, and enabling the success. Because of their unique role and perspective on the business, marketing owns or is heavily involved in the strategy of the business, and often...