C-19 disruptions are all-consuming for CEOs. All are working long, stressful hours doing whack-a-mole heroics with empathy for the most-hard-hit.
But, the working-from-home crowd including – many of our customers’ buyers; our sales reps; and cautious seniors – are enjoying new-to-them, digital experiences.
The unprecedented, C-19, shut-down economy is here. Minimize downside hits, while maximizing upside opportunities! How exactly? Here are some moves that distributors have shared with me:
Continue reading 184. C-19, Distribution, Improvisation Measures
In a virtual meeting, a B2B millennial (call him Joe) took over the screen and masterfully showed me (with pride) how he avoided both a repair contractor’s fee and a distributor’s high price.
Continue reading 183. A Millennial Fleeces Both Contractor & Distributor: Lessons?
Calendar-year distributors: what’s your planning routine for 2020? Is it forecasts, goal setting and budgets, to beat last year by trying harder? Plus, what big-new-competitive-advantage experiments will you be trying? If you aren’t planning something a bit scary, then you are doing same old stuff in new clothes to get fading results. Continue reading 177. Scary Strategic Questions for 2020 (A)*
Calendar-year distributors: what’s your planning routine for 2020? Is it forecasts, goal setting and budgets, to beat last year by trying harder? Plus, what big-new-competitive-advantage experiments will you be trying? If you aren’t planning something a bit scary, then you are doing same old stuff in new clothes to get fading results. Continue reading 177. Scary Strategic Questions for 2020 (A)*
Google: “Amazon’s 14 Leadership Principles”. Here’s how a distributor put them to work.
(CEO speaking): We subscribe to a customer/SKU, net-profit analytics service. We were initially shocked by the net-profit winners and losers. But, if we were going to reinvent service-value in a Frugal (P#10) way, we should start obsessing about our most net-profitable customers and customer niches. Continue reading 176. Distributor Puts Amazon’s 14 Principles to Work
The global economy is slowing down. Will you freeze investments, do cost trimming and wait for the next upturn? With what future hopes? To get back to mediocre profits with hopes that:
Or, will you follow “The Pumpkin Plan”? Continue reading 173. Solutions for a Stalling Economy