Your Principles
Developing and defending your principles
RedPaper: The lines you draw in the sand
April 20, 2010 | Author: Tim Williams
Articulating what your firm will always do and what it will never do.
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Your purpose
Does your firm have a sense of purpose that transcends making money?
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Your principles
Does your firm have a set of beliefs that guide its daily business decisions?
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Your positioning
- Developing an effective positioning
- The argument for a differentiated business strategy
- Tools for refining and validating your positioning
Has your firm identified and leveraged its points of relevant differentiation?
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Your product
- Agency structure and core competencies
- Ideation and creative development
- One-to-one marketing
- Reputation management
- Strategic planning and development
Is your firm delivering excellence and offering the right services for today’s marketplace?
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Your people
- Job design, roles and responsibilities
- Management and leadership
- Performance planning and career development
- Policies and internal communication
- Recruiting and selecting talent
- Training and professional development
Does your firm have the right talent to deliver consistently high levels of performance?
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Your prospecting
Does your firm market its own brand and proactively manage the reputation of its own brand?
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Your process
- Intellectual property development and management
- Software systems and solutions
- Work processing and workflow management
How well does your firm manage its processes and workflow?
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Your place of business
Does your firm have a work environment that allows your people do their best work?
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Your pricing
Is your firm compensated for the value it creates rather than the hours it works?
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Steve Barr, Partner, Osborn & Barr
"The concept of positioning was decades ahead of its time when it was born, and was all but forgotten when its time finally arrived. Except by Tim Williams. Nobody writing or consulting on the subject today has a stronger and more incisive grasp on what has become the most essential marketing principle of all. "
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Joe Norris, Former President, Sullivan Higdon & Sink
"If you’re in the business of innovation, this book can help you create your own success instead of trying to copy the success of others. “Positioning for Professionals” is the best book on positioning since Trout and Ries’ Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind – and that was written 40 years ago!"
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