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I admire many entrepreneurs. They bring energy, excitement, youthful enthusiasm. What they lack in process, they make up for in gumption.
Michael J. Silverstein
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Michael J. Silverstein
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
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Own one idea. Complete it. Map the current model of purchase and usage. Change how it is done so at least some part of the market uses only your product. Extend from that core user to a much broader universe. Describe your concept in a very short, six-word story - a la Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
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For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are odd but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.
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Deliver infinite growth having your customers talk about you, exclaim you and tell their friends and colleagues about you.
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Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story, in which your customers are the most important characters. Because, you know, they really are.
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Respond to your customer's dissatisfactions with precision and power.
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Failure to make the tough but necessary choices means slow painful death.
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Better ramp up your virtual relationships. Companies think omni channel is the correct answer. This is not enough. The information explosion for consumers makes 24/7 and full and complete engagement possible.
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Find out what schismogenesis means. Schismogenesis is anthropology. It says relationships between people are not stable. They are either moving up or moving down. The same is true for brands. You need to understand where you are.
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Woo your biggest fans. This rule says concentrate your efforts at understanding on the 2 percent of consumers that personally drive 20 percent of sales and invite their friends and colleagues to enjoy you.
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Original research starts all inspiration. Get inside the head of the consumer. Understand their needs, hopes and dreams. Deliver to their expectation. Have your team do the work. They will then have the framework for the solution. If they believe and they understand, the results will be their results.
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Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.
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Define a winning proposition that is consumer right and delivers margin accretion.
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Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.
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The choices we make define our future.
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A lot of people believe you only need a vision. This is simply not correct. You need brilliant execution every day. It's about attention to all the details of go to market.
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