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Getting Closer to the Customer

Phil Krone • Aug 05, 2011

Please join us  Wednesday, November 1, 2006  in downtown Chicago for a free workshop that will help you  Get Closer to Your Customer .

Bernard Liebowitz, Ph.D, of Liebowitz and Associates and Philip Krone, President of Productive Strategies, Inc. , will discuss how you can use strategies to form solid, long-lasting relationships with your valued customers.

Philip Krone’s presentation uses case studies from his thirty plus years of marketing experience to demonstrate highly-effective strategies he and his clients have used to foster customer intimacy. Topics include:

  • Overcoming commoditization
  • Strengthening the core business
  • Selecting customer intimacy as a leadership discipline
  • Using customer research to reposition the offering
  • Using disintermediation as a strategy
  • Using advisory boards
  • Attaching value to a product or service
  • The role of sales skills in supporting all of the above

Bernie Liebowitz will discuss the execution to support the strategies selected by your company. Points of discussion include:

  • Knowing who your customers are
  • Structuring your company to get closer to the customer
  • Managing your customer performance grid
  • Ensuring buy-in from everyone in your company
  • Eliminating the Sales/Manufacturing conflict
  • How structure supports your value-added services

The program begins at 7:30 a.m. with a continental breakfast at The Union League Club, 65 W. Jackson, Chicago, IL. The program will conclude at 10 a.m. There is not cost for this workshop.

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