bad smes for your startup
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“Small” is not beautiful
… well, not alwaysA quick guide for startups who want to sell to SMEs
A quick guide for adventurous startups
Aiming at a market of SMEs? Thinking this will be easy?Think again!
There is plenty of bad SMEs out thereindecisive
stingy
abusive
stubborn
backwardish fool
ish
Useful things to know
You need a Customer Relationship Strategy
A Customer Relationship Strategy?
What you will do for you Customers – and what not?
How will you structure your offering?
How will Customers look at your offer? As a cost or as an investment? And why?
How will Customers evaluate your offer? Are you sure about this?
• The Delta Model is a very valuable framework for identifying and designing your customer relationship strategy
• You cannot be all things to all people – so start being selective
• Dependent on the customer relationship strategy you choose, you will optimize different things
Hot leads to Knowledge
Two articles on “Small is not beautiful”:• Here http://bit.ly/XiIiCV • And here http://bit.ly/11kcxSl
The Delta Model:• On Wikipedia http://bit.ly/KZC9YI• MIT Sloan presentation http://bit.ly/WLAiv7