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Landing Big Sales with Tom Searcy: Podcast

David Dirks wrote 3 weeks ago: Listen to this podcast of a previous show on the Dirks On Strategy Radio show. Tom Searcy, author or … more →

Tags: Dirks On Strategy: Episodes, Sales Metrics, Sales Tactics, better sales results, Big Sales, David Dirks, dirks on strategy, large sales, sales management

Shifting Your Business Strategy - 2

David Dirks wrote 3 months ago: It would be the understatement of the year to say that the auto industry has been literally crushed … more →

Tags: Business Strategy, Marketing, Recession: How to Beat It!, Solving Business Problems, changing business strategies, Differentiation, Hyundai, Market differentiation, marketing strategy

Shifting Your Business Strategy - 1

David Dirks wrote 4 months ago: IBM’s movement from great to nearly dead to great again has been nothing less than one the gre … more →

Tags: Increasing Your Profitability, Sales Tactics, Solving Business Problems, Business Development, Business Strategy, Growth, IBM, marketing growth, Markets

Growing Your Sales Capacity

David Dirks wrote 4 months ago: Grow your sales efforts in tough economic times, don’t shrink them like everybody else does.  … more →

Tags: Business Strategy, Sales Tactics, Solving Business Problems, Sales, sales capacity, sales growth, sales managment

Your Own Web-based Radio Show

David Dirks wrote 4 months ago: If you follow this blog, you know that I’m a big fan of leveraging web-based resources like bl … more →

Tags: Buzz Marketing: Lowest Cost/Highest Payoff, Retailer Store Strategies, Sales Tactics, Recession: How to Beat It!, Marketing buzz, Local Brand Development, radio, webcasting, webcast

Webinars: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good

David Dirks wrote 6 months ago: As a marketer, I just love the internet for the power that it allows us to harness and leverage.  It … more →

Tags: Marketing, Marketing buzz, Recession: How to Beat It!, Sales Tactics, marketing strategies, marketing webinars, Sales Strategies, Seminars, Webinars

Free-Analysis Marketing

David Dirks wrote 7 months ago: The Big Dogz always know how to keep applying what works in almost any market or economy.  They … more →

Tags: Business Strategy, Increasing Your Profitability, Recession: How to Beat It!, Sales Tactics, Competitive Strategy, free analysis marketing, Marketing, Sales, sales stratetgies

Beating A Recession - 12: Blow Up the Brick & Mortar!1 comment

David Dirks wrote 9 months ago: Want to save a significant amount of annual expense and increase your profitability…and lower … more →

Tags: Business Strategy, e-Small Business Resources, Increasing Your Profitability, Innovation: Not Just for the Big Dogz, Recession: How to Beat It!, Retailer Store Strategies, beating a recession, Online Marketing, online sales

Beating a Recession -11

David Dirks wrote 9 months ago: What if you could develop a product that could create excitement in your business and elevate your s … more →

Tags: Business Strategy, Buzz Marketing: Lowest Cost/Highest Payoff, Public Relations Strategies, Recession: How to Beat It!, beating a recession, Depression, marketing strategy, Public Relations & Marketing, recession

Beating a Recession - 101 comment

David Dirks wrote 9 months ago: I’ve written quite a bit about the fact that now is the time to keep some marketing and promot … more →

Tags: Recession: How to Beat It!, Retailer Store Strategies, small business advertising, advertising, advertising effectiveness, Marketing, Sales

Innovation in the Newspaper Business - 1

David Dirks wrote 9 months ago: For quite some time now, I’ve been watching and musing over the struggle that the newspaper pu … more →

Tags: Increasing Your Profitability, Innovation: Not Just for the Big Dogz, Recession: How to Beat It!, digital product sales, Innovation, new revenue development, newspaper business, newspaper marketing, Publishing

Retailing Winners: Deep Discounters and Used Re-Sellers

David Dirks wrote 10 months ago: We should have seen this one coming.  While most of retailing struggles, there are those who are doi … more →

Tags: Building Foot Traffic, Increasing Your Profitability, Retailer Store Strategies, Sales Tactics, Recession: How to Beat It!, Business Strategy, Sales, Small Business Sales, buzz marketing

Sales down? Invest in Your Sales Teams1 comment

David Dirks wrote 10 months ago: Another knee-jerk reaction to slower sales and revenues: cutting back on sales training.  Cutting in … more →

Tags: Retailer Store Strategies, Recession: How to Beat It!, Grow your skills, Sales, beating a recession, recession sales strategy, sales training, Sales Development, Training

Beating a Recession: Don't Play on Price Alone!

David Dirks wrote 11 months ago: I recently saw an ad in my local paper from a tire dealer.  It was a good sized ad and it had one fo … more →

Tags: A New Webinar!, Recession: How to Beat It!, Retailer Store Strategies, small business advertising, Sales Tactics, sales growth, beating a recession, advertising, Retail Sales

Beating the Recession Webinar Now Available!

David Dirks wrote 11 months ago: You’ve asked for it and now we’re offering it… If there was one webinar that you c … more →

Tags: Buzz Marketing: Lowest Cost/Highest Payoff, Increasing Your Profitability, small business advertising, Retailer Store Strategies, Innovation: Not Just for the Big Dogz, Public Relations Strategies, Recession: How to Beat It!, Business Strategy, A New Webinar!

Retailer Strategies: Beating the Big Boxes

David Dirks wrote 11 months ago: A regular reader of our blog, a marketing director of a two-store retail operation, recently sent me … more →

Tags: Building Foot Traffic, Business Strategy, Buzz Marketing: Lowest Cost/Highest Payoff, Marketing buzz, Recession: How to Beat It!, Retailer Store Strategies, beating a recession, increasing revenues, Market differentiation

Beating a Recession - 8

David Dirks wrote 11 months ago: I’m always on the prowl for ideas that can help combat the economic slowdown.  Here are two th … more →

Tags: Innovation: Not Just for the Big Dogz, Recession: How to Beat It!, Retailer Store Strategies, Sales, Marketing, recession, beating a recession, Differentiation, fighting a recession

Beating a Recession - 7

David Dirks wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a question for you:  When you made your last major purchase (car, truck, appliances, et … more →

Tags: Retailer Store Strategies, Keeping Your Customers, Recession: How to Beat It!, Business Strategy, Local Brand Development, beating a recession, creating customer value, Customer communications, Marketing Communications

Beating a Recession - 6

David Dirks wrote 1 year ago: The title of this blog entry gives away a powerful (and seemingly obvious) way to battle your way to … more →

Tags: Retailer Store Strategies, Recession: How to Beat It!, Business Strategy, recession, Depression, fighting a recession, analyzing products, Services, creating services


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