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Pages
+ Home: Home page: www.tim-barnes.com
+ Tim's Blog: Strategy, marketing and business blog by Tim Barnes
+ Articles: Insight and instruction on marketing and strategy
+ Books: Strategy and business online bookstore in association with Amazon
+ Links: External resources in business, strategy and marketing
+ Services: Consulting services offered by Tim Barnes
+ Business Philosophy: Integrity and pragmatism define our approach to client relationships
+ Working Style: Operational methods for our consultancy
Blog Posts
+ Writing for fun and profit: Books and writing
+ The Art of Flows: A practical guide to the creation, maintenance and deployment of design flows for the software and electronics industries
+ Marketing with integrity: Getting to the truth is the best way to market
+ Differentiation is the key to selling in a tough economy: Quality products are differentiated, especially in hard times
+ Segmentation and the power of focus: Belief-based segmentation is a powerful way to target your marketing messages
+ Customer relationship innovation: Referenceability is the secret sauce that drives up customer loyalty and business growth
+ Innovation is not optional: Innovation is key to any business. There are many ways to innovate, and this article summarizes the most important.
+ Strategy: Making your recommendation: Powerful techniques for a persuasive recommendation
+ Strategy: Validation completes the picture: Validation of a strategic hypothesis checks and completes the plan
+ RSS Feeds are the quick way to keep up to date: How to use RSS feeds to stay connected with your customers.
+ The Hypothesis - where analysis meets action: The strategy hypothesis captures your core beliefs about the situation and best options to address it
+ Web 2.0 and technology: Updated: Ajax is just one of the new Web 2.0 techniques that is changing the way we experience the Internet.
+ Strategy: Effective Market Research execution: Qualitative research is a powerful way to develop strategic insight
+ Research planning drives new insights: Research planning ensures you fill in the gaps in your knowledge prior to developing a strategic hypothesis.
+ How business model innovation drives business success: Business model innovation improves differentiation and can help with financial operations
+ Strategy: the Environmental Scan gets you oriented: Environmental Scan aggregates easily available market and industry data as an early part of strategy development.
+ Strategy: defining the problem: Strategy problem definition provides focus and helps achieve early buy-in
+ The Django book is out: Django book recommendations
+ Seven steps to a sound strategy: Seven practical steps to making effective strategic decisions for your business
+ What is Web 2.0 really?: Web 2.0 is characterized by greater interactivity and better tools to connect people.
+ Computing's new frontier: Cloud computing is a powerful way to achieve massive scale at the lowest possible cost. But there are programming challenges to be met...
+ How this site is made: Django is a modern web development framework, implemented in Python - a modern scripting language. These are the underpinnings of this site.
+ Sales and Marketing MindXchange: Frost and Sullivan runs these sessions - I had the chance to be a subject matter expert in value-based selling approaches.
+ Technology will let us live forever: Ray Kurtzweil's latest book argues that technology will extend our lives, possibly indefinitely. What does this mean for us and our children?
+ Web 2.0 - Inside the Bubble: I was part of a Web 2.0 discussion in London that led to some interesting insights about how the Internet is changing...
Articles
+ Brand Magic: Brand development combines psychology and design with marketing and business planning. This article outlines some of the techniques used by the world's best brands.
+ Differentiation drives your business: Updated: There are many ways to differentiate - product, service, business model and more. This article describes seven practical ways to increase your business' differentiation.
+ Pragmatic steps to strategy development: A tested approach to strategy development that takes account of the organizational and political factors in generating actionable strategies.
+ The Marketing Knowledge Base: Information is the key to effective marketing. How are you differentiated? What are your customers' key needs? This article outlines a methodology for managing marketing information.
Services
+ Brand Strategy: Brand strategy built on the psychology of branding and the techniques of NLP.
+ Business Strategy: A powerful set of techniques for uncovering new opportunities to strengthen and grow your business, built on the techniques described on this site.
+ Market Research: Original techniques for qualititative research
+ Marketing Communications Planning: A pragmatic approach to marketing communications planning (marcom).
+ Product Launch: Delivering predictable product launches is key to a good return on R&D investment
+ Vision and Values: Vision and values are key elements in finding and retaining employees and customers.
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