It Takes More Than Sales to Grow a Successful Company

There are lots of how-to books that detail methods a business can employ to increase sales. Most of them focus on the tools and techniques sales people can use to advance a sale, but they miss the big picture.

Whether it's complex selling or soultions sales, sustaining sales is not as much a factor of the sales method as it is the ability of the company to understand and articulate a customer's customer's needs. When a business has a clear understanding of these needs, everything from creating a solid value proposition to hiring the right talent are much easier. The business is focused on delivering value to the customer from an exernal perspective. This kind of thinking at every level drives it's internal decisions and external communications. Everything is customer focused. In summary, a customer focused business with solid decision-making skills will out perform its competitors and spend less on marketing and sales whie doing it.

The same holds true for investing is a startup. Just ask the question "Do they truly understand that the customer wants what the customer wants"? If not, they have created a shiny object looking for a market. But that is another post.

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