How Building Demand and Operations for Business Is Simple
Jay Calangi
Technical Recruiter at Thakral One | Ateneo BS Management Engineering 2020 | Let's connect!
Marketing is about the right message for the right person at the right time. You cater to a specific customer despite being useful for everyone everywhere. If you’re able to sell to one segment, you can then branch off into others. Make sure to talk to people about their needs, wants, and pain points.
Be very analytical with your talks too by recording all these conversations. You will see here that you have a most popular phrase which leads to insight. Talking to so many people will let you know their needs in their language. Then, you can use people’s words back at them so you can sell well.
One good way to learn about customers is by engaging on their social media. By the time that you sell, you will likely hit given the right product and brand. Another good way of getting in touch with people is by relating to them. Start the conversation with what you have in common then expand the talk.
Once you have a need you’re catering to, make playbooks for operations. Don’t just rely on videos to teach you over and over again to be executable. Write down your process on a file so that you have steps on doing things. Otherwise, you will always just play and pause when doing things. Having your playbooks, one day you will delegate these to your employees. Teach them how to do things with the checklist so you automate operations.
Afterward, the key is to be specific for your customers in serving them. Make sure you customize yourself just right so you cater specifically to them. The less generic and bland you can be with your customers, the better it is. Then, make sure you’re tracking the data to know you’re doing well.
Once you have good demand and operations, make sure you evolve. Make sure to analyze your data and keep testing things so you improve. Be sure you also have a process for innovating so you’re doing it right. With these playbooks, you should be able to teach anyone how to work. Don’t be afraid to then give up control to the people you hire so you can grow. Check up on them sometimes but don’t limit your business due to insecurity.
Source: Stefan Lubinski