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| December 2005
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The Growth Advisor
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Dear
Christopher,
I would like to welcome you to our newly revised newsletter, The Growth
Advisor. Its purpose is to keep you in touch with proven methods for growing
your business faster and more efficiently. Please feel free to contact me with
any comments, questions, or suggestions.
I hope it helps!
Christopher DiCenso
Managing Partner
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Finding
the Sweet Spot to Growth |
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Wilber
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Caught between aggressive competitors, increasingly demanding customers, and
escalating costs, few CEOs will deny that it's a much tougher business
environment today. So, how are the most successful companies responding to the
challenge?
At this year's Inc. 500 conference, winners of the fastest growing company
awards were asked to identify the single most important driver of their revenue
growth.
The answer was overwhelmingly niche marketing. Niche marketing is the ability
to focus on a discrete customer segment and ultimately provide them with a
unique solution.
Is your company really focused on its best niches?
Ask yourself the following questions to find out:
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Which market segments bring in the most profitable business today, and is this
likely to continue?
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How well do our products and services, pricing, and distribution channels
address their business issues and goals?
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Are our sales and marketing campaigns targeted specifically at those niches?
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Does our value proposition effectively provide a reason to listen to us?
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How effective are we at measuring and managing the effectiveness of these
campaigns?
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Targeting &
focusing your limited sales and marketing resources to market niches where you
have strength optimizes efficient growth.
Growth Strategy Partners recently worked with a mid- sized manufacturing firm
that was losing market share. They had developed new products to try to regain
share, but their sales and marketing approach was far too generalized. We
analyzed their business to narrow their focus on niche customer segments that
would provide the best growth opportunities. Through our Advanced Customer
Management approach, we helped them to align their branding, product, marketing
communications, and sales strategies to focus on the needs of those specific
market niches. In a short period of time, revenue began to exceed initial
projections.
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About
Growth Strategy Partners |
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Revenue
Profit
and Talent
Growth
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Recognized as the Trusted Growth Advisor to the Inc 500, Growth Strategy
Partners is a growth strategy consulting firm that helps entrepreneurially
managed businesses to grow faster and more efficiently than they could on their
own. Its services are differentiated by years of research into the practices of
fast growing companies, translation of the three disciplines responsible for
their success into rapid-results methodologies and tools, and consultants who
are accomplished senior executives and business owners themselves.
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Contact
Information
phone: 781.837.3276
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