Small Goes Big with the Right Product Idea… Be Intrapreneurial

By Peter Klinge, Jr. The right product idea(s) can transform any company, even in a mature one, into new exciting directions and possibilities. To be intrapreneurial is to reinvent and leverage your own ideas and to align an organization’s people … Continue reading

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Why Whole Foods is in a Pickle

Why Whole Foods is in a Pickle… Whole Foods finds itself in a situation common to businesses across wide ranging categories. The dilemma or pickle for Whole Foods in grocery speak isn’t unusual for large companies. Category leaders as they … Continue reading

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The High Price of Mediocrity

Mediocre is the impression given by too much emphasis on price. Business leaders too often use price and other related promotions that discount their products and services as a short term fix to bring customers back, and/or as a means … Continue reading

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How to Focus on Your Best Customers

Focusing on your best customers is critically important. However, many companies do not do this. There’s a lot of emphasis in marketing and sales to acquire new customers. What businesses often fail to recognize is that the time, effort and … Continue reading

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How to extend a Brand into new outlets…

Extending a brand into new outlets is highly rewarding but also fraught with challenges and potential disaster. This post is about how to extend a brand successfully. Fortune wrote a story about Starbucks’ Grocery Gambit in December. Not too many … Continue reading

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Do Not Sell Price If You Don’t Have a Buyer

Do Not Sell Price If You Don’t Have a Buyer…   You need to know if you have a buyer showing interest in the value of your offer before you present price. My wife and I wandered into an art … Continue reading

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Greatest Business Rivalries & Why They Are Important to Innovation…

By Peter Klinge, Jr. Greatest Business Rivalries & Why They are Important to Innovation… Inspired by the March, 2013 Fortune story here’s why competitive rivalries are important. Focus the mission of the organization on the highest priorities; Highlight weaknesses and … Continue reading

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How to Align ‘Why’ to Growth Outcomes

By Peter Klinge, Jr. of KLINGE associates The following outlines principles for how to Align the Why of your business to Growth Outcomes. Informed by experience this shows how to develop strategy and a plan that is aligned with a … Continue reading

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What’s the Retail Battle- do you Showroom?

  What’s The Retail Battle About? Do you Showroom as a Consumer but Loathe it as a Business? The concept of show rooming is that shoppers go to a retail outlet for products they are interested in, then check their … Continue reading

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What 6 things Small Business Fears Most…?

6 Things Small Business Fears Most Keeping employees motivated and satisfied: Man, if you’re a business owner you might think people should just be happy to have the job your company affords in this uncertain economy. Well, I hear the point… … Continue reading

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