Smart Advantage is the only sales, marketing and management consultancy focused exclusively on identifying and communicating the most important element of successful competition - your measured competitive advantage - from your customer’s perspective. Why from the customer's perspective? Because if your customer’s don't value your differentiators, then they are not relevant.
“I can wholeheartedly and unconditionally recommend the Smart Advantage team. They have a very good proposition that actually works and delivers bottom line results, unlike a lot of consultants I have come across. In some respects their proposition is deceptively simple; ask your customers what they want, make sure that you give them it, and demonstrate it with some data driven concise selling messages. However, underlying this basic precept, is a wealth of experience in making this work across many clients, industries and sectors, and a very strong data driven and structured process to craft and validate competitive advantage statements. A key tenet of their work, that it’s so simple that most of us don’t think to do it.”
I was recently in a local retail store with a big sign announcing “Closing Sale, everything 70% off.” It was enough to get me to enter the store and ask the clerk why the store was closing. The clerk, who happened to be the Assistant Manager, said “Internet prices are killing us.” I tried to read more
If you have ever bought a new house or made any big purchase decisions, you likely did some comparisons. Most of us do that even when we think we know what “we want.” We are looking for that tie breaker. What will help me make my choice? Which stands out and why? Is there anything read more
How often do you challenge your salespeople, and yourself, to clean up your company’s sales pitch? We have worked with hundreds of companies to help them build a compelling data-driven pitch. The key to success for any new sales pitch is that it must be a consistent presentation of your company’s value. And the goal read more
