Tag Archive: Duct Tape Marketing

Going the Extra Mile – a great example I had to share

On my recent trip to India to deliver marketing, sales and pre-sales training in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, I had the pleasure to meet with a new SAP Business One partner. As we got talking he shared the story of his business with me and it was so incredibly powerful, I wanted to cover it…

Certified – but some would say certifiable – with thanks to SAP partners all around the world!

Richard Duffy - Certified Duct Tape Marketing Consultant

This past week I reached a personal milestone but it would not have been possible with out the support of the many SAP Partners that have attended my SAP Partner Marketing Catalyst Workshops over the past 2+ years as well as John Jantsch (the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing System), Joe Costantino and Cidnee…

Whats your reason for being….and how does it relate to your customers?

Michael Gerber, the author of one of the first business books I ever read – The E-Myth (Why Most Small Businesses Dont Work and What to Do About It) – said that most businesses are started not by entrepreneurs but by technicians having an entrepreneurial seizure. This was absolutely true for me when I started…

People buy from people – are yours hidden away?

Are you hiding your people away?

Its an old adage that people buy from people – at the recent SAP Field Kick Of Meeting, Bill McDermott made the observation that SAP’s people and the relationships they build with customers are a major factor in the resurgence of SAP’s sales results, even ahead of the full recovery from the Global Financial Crisis….

Common sense marketing

90% of what we need to do in our businesses can be tracked back to a few simple common sense principles and approaches. In my next few blog entries I will drill down further in to this idea using marketing as the example.