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December 2005 The Growth Advisor
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

Finding the Sweet Spot to Growth
by Nancy Wilber   Key and hole

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:

  1. Which market segments bring in the most profitable business today, and is this likely to continue?
  2. How well do our products and services, pricing, and distribution channels address their business issues and goals?
  3. Are our sales and marketing campaigns targeted specifically at those niches?
  4. Does our value proposition effectively provide a reason to listen to us?
  5. How effective are we at measuring and managing the effectiveness of these campaigns?

 
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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