Alliance Forum - Marketing

A Branding Lesson: The Four Cornerstones

Summary: Branding is about creating relationships. By building multiple relationships with a client, the CEO discovered new opportunities to grow his business. Four ideals behind successful branding are explained. ...Read More

Forum Categories: Marketing | Strategy & Planning


Selling through Education

Summary: If your prospects don’t understand your value proposition, educate them. The company developed conferences to reinforce its solutions and position itself as a knowledge leader, which leads to higher sales. Learn the keys to creating a great educational setting. ...Read More

Forum Categories: Marketing | Operations | Sales


Synchronizing Brand Image with Deliverables

Summary: Successful companies do not survive on brand alone. A CEO comes into a struggling company and rebuilds its brand by rebuilding the value proposition, and then delivers. The importance of building and maintaining brand is examined. ...Read More

Forum Categories: Marketing | Strategy & Planning


From Service to Process to Product

Summary: Sometimes we sell more than a product or service. By learning his clients’ businesses and modifying his own company’s offerings, the CEO creates more value for everybody. ...Read More

Forum Categories: Marketing | Sales | Strategy & Planning


From Brand to Icon

Summary: Most decisions in our world stem from emotion. Jewelry firm Lori Bonn Design turned its founder into a public personality – an icon, as part of its branding strategy and as a result, hit it big on TV. Take branding to the next level. ...Read More

Forum Categories: Marketing | Sales


Not all Clients are for You

Summary: A new architectural firm discovers that some clients just aren’t for them, and don’t contribute to profits. Based on their strategic objectives, they develop of prospect profiling system to avoid likely problem clients and focus on business that is most useful for growing the firm. ...Read More

Forum Categories: Marketing | Operations | Sales


Purist to Populist

Summary: Great business ideas are often borne by finding the mainstream’s interest in little-known products and services and making them more popular. Serial entrepreneur Rob Wrubel has a track record of doing just that, although it didn’t happen overnight. ...Read More

Forum Categories: Entrepreneurship | Marketing | Strategy & Planning


Showcasing Your People

Summary: Your customers want to know that your firm can satisfy their needs. At K/P Corp, it’s the people on staff that deliver, with the help of equipment. When Rich Barbee was appointed CEO he found that the equipment was being marketed, not the people. That was fixed, with excellent results. ...Read More

Forum Categories: Human Resources | Marketing