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People Do Business With You…But Why?

Women on Business

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” Red Zone Marketing’s “Why”: We focus our efforts on finding simple, common sense and inexpensive alternatives to creating growth in a business. We are committed to designing smart marketing strategies – not the flashiest or most complex.

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The Silent Killer of New Products: Lazy Pricing

Harvard Business Review

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. Not surprisingly, they advocate bringing marketing and monetizing concerns much further forward in the R&D process.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. By tailoring each handoff to the teams involved.

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50 Companies That Get Twitter – and 50 That Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Corporate tweeters need to know that they aren’t just promoting a brand or solving a problem: they are performing for an audience, supporting customers throughout their journey, and even, subtly, selling. Social media isn’t merely a place for people to chat with each other and for brands to talk at their customers.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers. Financiers.

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