|
|
Marketing and Sales Take Place in the Theater of the Mind Keynotes - Presentations - Workshops - Seminars A frequent keynote speaker, presenter and trainer at professional conferences, Jim presents to national and international groups on strategies for improving marketing and sales to baby boomers and older consumers, executing organizational change and strategic thinking and planning. Jim also provides clients a cost effective Train-The-Trainer program to improve communications, sales and service to compliment existing sales and service training programs.
Since 1991, Jim has provided leadership to Lombard, IL based Coming of Age, Incorporated an integrated marketing firm/agency specializing in developing and executing marketing, advertising and sales campaigns, turnkey customer loyalty clubs and sales and service improvement training programs to help clients increase market share and profit in Boomer+ customer markets.
A Marketing Revolution is Coming Kevin Clancy and Robert Shulman, former heads of Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, wrote there is a marketing revolution coming “because failure is self-evident and everybody -- stockholders, directors, CEO's, customers, the government -- is angry because marketing, which should be driving business doesn't work.” Coincidentally, in 2000, almost 50% of adult Americans were forty-six years of age or older making middle age consumers the dominant players in the marketplace. In mid-life, behavior typically becomes more autonomous. This presents marketers and sales professionals with the most independent-minded consumer population ever.
Keynotes, Presentations & Seminars Brain Power - The Driver of Marketing Communications - Consumer Behavior Marketing™ - 5 Keys to Understanding Boomer + Customer Paradigm Shifts
Brain Power - The Driver of Successful Sales - Consumer Behavior Selling™ Increasing Sales in Baby Boomer+ Older Consumer Markets
Learn the power of the brain in determining what messages get through to our conscious mind. Learn the so-called "senior" market does not exist and learn a new research and communications paradigm -"Consumer Behavior Sales™". Learn how the brain determines the sales messages received. Finally, learn how to identify individual consumers' needs and purchase motivators, and create sales approaches and messages that have the best chance of generating interest and converting that interest into a buying decision.
How to Improve Customer Service & Increase Boomer+ Customer Satisfaction
Related
& Supporting Keynotes, Presentations & Seminars
Building Customer Loyalty - Developing and Executing a Value-Oriented Customer Loyalty Program/Club – Adding Value beyond the Intrinsic Value of Your Products & Services
Learn how to develop, execute & manage a program to increase profit
& engage the support & loyalty of program members by providing
them member-only company, national & local benefits & services.
Learn the elements of a successful program, how it benefits customers
& the company, the resources needed & a formula to determine costs.
Learn how becoming a program sponsor increases market share & provides
an attractive edge against out-migration of program members to competitor
& non-competitor programs. 10 Steps to an Integrated Marketing Company - Brand Management: When Thinking Of Your Company, What Comes To Your Customer’s Mind?
The Play's the Thing - Every Contact Is a Stage & Every Worker an Actor
Learn the principles of strategic thinking and planning and how to create a compelling case to achieve success. Learn to create a common language of strategic thinking and planning, and the value of a diagnostic audit. Learn how to collaboratively create a motivating vision, and a process to identify and prioritize goals, strategies and action plans. Learn the nature and importance of key players in the process, the communications process & how the concept of "Pain Management" helps to identify and manage resistance while executing goals & strategies. Finally, learn why sustained commitment, the cement that provides the critical adhesion between people and goal achievement, can be expensive. The Temptations of Leadership - - Avoiding Its Traps
Learn about the lure & temptations of leaders that may lead to company disintegration. Learn lessons to avoid the temptations & how to maintain a leadership position. Learn that one style is not always correct. Learn leading effectively requires a complete analysis & understanding of the four factors of leadership: the led, the leader, the situation & communication. Learn how to act strategically & decisively, communicate in a variety of settings, & interact positively with internal & external constituencies. Learn new techniques & approaches for leading change in areas critical to future company success. Learn the skills for producing results & assuring accountability & identify specific leadership & management behaviors & illustrate when each is appropriate. Finally, on that foundation, learn to apply certain leadership behaviors to help move people effectively through the change process.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jim
Gilmartin has emerged as one of America's experts on marketing and sales
to baby boomer and older customers (Boomer+ customers). He has authored
hundreds of articles on these rapidly growing and lucrative markets for
many industries.
In
addition to his knowledge of how to secure and retain these markets, Jim
brings to his entertaining engagements the experience of more than 20
years in business leadership, marketing and operations positions. Serving
as CEO of two corporations, and as senior vice president for a Chicago-based
international health care system, Jim provided leadership to position
the system as a leading provider of products to Boomer+ customers.
Learn
why markets are tougher & why understanding how the brain determines
what messages we receive & that perception and behavior changes over
a lifetime is the key to successful communications. Learn a new research
and communications paradigm -"Integrated Consumer Behavior Marketing™".
Learn the five needs and shifting values of target markets & how we
manifest them over life. Learn why emotions are the drivers of marketing
and sales and how the brain, mind and conscious processes information.
Finally, learn the value of storytelling and "Conditional Positioning",
and communications, approaches and messages that have the best chance
of generating interest and converting that interest into a buying decision.
Examples of effective communications are discussed.
Consumers
are scrutinizing sales presentations, products and services more closely
than before. In addition, the aging of global markets is having a substantial
impact on sales and communications effectiveness. In 2001, almost 50%
of adult Americans are forty-six years of age or older. Over the next
decade the over fifty markets will increase by approximately 50%.
The less-than-fifty markets will increase by only 1% making middle
age consumers the dominant players in the marketplace. This has presented
sales professional with the most independent-minded consumer population
ever. In midlife, behavior typically becomes more autonomous. Resistance
to entreaties by others to take various actions - like buying a given
product increases.
Customer
contact employees learn about the unique characteristics of Boomer+ Customers
and learn how to apply insights gained to improve operations, policy development
and customer service and satisfaction. Learn: The critical nature of the
50+ adult markets. What makes Boomer+ Customers different from younger
markets? What drives Boomer+ Customer attitudes and behaviors? How to
deal with burn out. How to effectively serve an irate consumer. Why customary
customer service techniques may be less effective. How to improve communications
to Boomer+ Customers.
An
Affinity/Loyalty Discount Benefit Program is a natural for companies
looking to differentiate their product or services from competitors. An
Affinity/Loyalty Discount Benefit Program can be defined as "the
development, implementation, communication & management of a value
added program beyond, & supporting, company services & designed
to attract & retain targeted customers".
In
addition to the customer, other key stakeholders have a significant impact
on the perception of Brand value & Equity. Learn the 10 steps to become
an Integrated Marketing company & the value of focusing upon
developing of brand value, equity & key "stakeholder" satisfaction.
Learn how to develop marketing as a business philosophy not a function,
& that all elements of marketing & communication must be integrated
& work toward common goals. Learn to focus upon on the core competency
of the people managing marketing communication, the amount & nature
of internal communication, the consistency of produced MC messages &
whether or not they were on strategy. Learn why a company must have a
marketing infrastructure that encourages & facilitates communication
between functional areas.
With
the consistent changing of markets and ever-increasing customer demands,
it has become necessary for companies to assess their approach to meeting
customer expectations. Developing and applying insights gained to determining
appropriate direction and strategies for business are no longer an option.
To effectively compete, companies must create memorable and lasting impressions
leading to customer transformation. Leadership and management must begin
the process of changing their company culture to create experiences that
touch their customers and other stakeholders in a very personal way.
To
shift marketing and sales paradigms, learn the principles of organizational
change management and the dynamics of commitment, creating a compelling
case for change, change sponsorship, the effect of company culture and
resistance to successful marketing strategy development and execution.
Learn why the greater the commitment to effectively managing change, the
more resources, like time, money, endurance, self-control, and ingenuity,
must be invested to achieve the desired outcome. 
Experienced
leaders understand the importance of knowing where their company is headed,
when and how it will get there, whom it will travel with and what obstacles
it may encounter along the way. To function effectively every executive/manager
must have a practical understanding of how to create commitment to company
goals and strategies, the value and importance of company stakeholders,
how to assess company strengths and weaknesses and how successful strategic
thinking/planning development, execution and management processes work.
By
definition, a great leader is one who is able to influence others to accomplish
a task. The personal style the leader adopts will determine the extent
to which influence is accepted & acted upon. The program identifies
the temptations of leadership leading to organization dysfunction &
the steps to avoid them. This program is designed to distinguish the differences
between leadership & management. 