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Learn how to compete with giants by being dramatically different, focusing on value, emotional bonds, community, and exceptional experiences. The guide emphasizes leadership, local connections, design, and innovation for small businesses.
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Tom Peters’Excellence: The Relentless Pursuit of Dramatic Difference!America’s Community Bankers2005 Annual Convention JW Marriott/Orlando/17 October 2005
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”—Charles Darwin
Experience: “Rebel Lifestyle!”“What we sell is the ability for a 43-year-old accountant to dress in black leather, ride through small towns and have people be afraid of him.”Harley exec, quoted in Results-Based Leadership
“The ‘mass market’ is dead. Consumers look for either price or quality. The middle is untenable.” —Walter Robb/COO/Whole Foods/Investors Business Daily/06.20.05
4X:“At London Drugs, everyone cares about everything.”—Wynne Powell
No Excuses/Wegman’s:#1*84%: Grocery stores “are all alike”46%: additional spend if customers have an “emotional connection” to a grocery store rather than “are satisfied” (Gallup)“Going to Wegman’s is not just shopping, it’s an event.”—Christopher Hoyt, grocery consultant“You cannot separate their strategy as a retailer from their strategy as an employer.”—Darrell Rigby, Bain & Co.*100 Best Companies to Work for/Fortune
7X. 730A-800P. F12A.**’93-’03/10 yr annual return: CB: 29%; WM: 17%; HD: 16%. Mkt Cap: 48% p.a.
Thesaurus of WOW! “They” hate it if you call them “bankers.” “They” love it, on the other hand, when you ask to see their #s—stupendous. “They” are … Commerce Bank. These absurdly fast growing, insanely profitable “retailers,” rewriting the rules of East Coast retail banking, sent me a copy of their booklet, “Traditions.” It explicates their “Wow the Customer Philosophy.” At the end there’s “A Collection of Commerce Lingo.” I won’t define (use your imagination), but simply offer a small sample: “Fans, Not Customers.” “Say YES … 1 to say YES, 2 to say NO.” (A staffer has to get a supervisor’s approval to say “no” to anything.) “Recover!!! To Err Is Human; To Recover Is Devine.” “Leave ’Em Speechless.” “Positive Behavior.” “Positive Language.” “Kill A Stupid Rule.” (Get cash rewards for exposing dumb internal rules “that impede our ability to WOW!”) Make the ‘WOW! Answer Guide’ Your Best Friend.” “Buzz Bee.” “CommerceWOW!Zone.” (A K-12 financial education program.) “Doctor WOW!” “Ten-Minute Principle.” (“Stores” open 10 minutes before posted hours, stay open 10 minutes after posted hours—and the hours, such as open 7 days a week, are already incredibly generous & tradition-shattering.) “Wall of WOW!” “WOW! Awards.” (The annual recognition ceremony—Radio City Music Hall, with the Rockettes, in ’05.)“WOW! Patrol.” “WOW! Spotlight.” “WOW Van.” “WOW Wiz.” (A service superstar.) Etc.
The “Small Guys” Guide: Wallop Wal*Mart16 *Niche-aimed. (Never, ever “all things for all people,” a “mini-Wal*Mart.) *Never attack the monsters head on! (Instead steal niche business and lukewarm customers.) *“Dramatically Different” (La Difference ... within our community, our industry regionally, etc … is as obvious as the end of one’s nose!) (THIS IS WHERE MOST MIDGETS COME UP SHORT.) *Compete on value/experience/intimacy, not price. (You ain’t gonna beat the behemoths on cost-price in 9.99 out of 10 cases.) *Emotional bond with Clients, Vendors. (BEAT THE BIGGIES ON EMOTION/CONNECTION!!)
The “Small Guys” Guide: Wallop Wal*Mart16 *Hands-on, emotional leadership. (“We are a great & cool & intimate & joyful & dramatically different team working to transform our Clients lives via Consistently Incredible Experiences!”) *A community star! (“Sell” local-ness per se. Sell the hell out of it!) *An incredible experience, from the first to last moment—and then in the follow-up! (“These guys are cool! They ‘get’ me! They love me!”) *DESIGN! (“Design” is a premier weapon-in-pursuit-of-the sublime for small-ish enterprises, including the professional services.)
The “Small Guys” Guide: Wallop Wal*Mart16 *Employer of choice. (A very cool, well-paid place to work/learning and growth experience in at least the short term … marked by notably progressive policies.) (THIS IS EMINENTLY DO-ABLE!!) *Sophisticated use of information technology. (Small-“ish” is no excuse for “small aims”/execution in IS/IT!) *Web-power! (The Web can make very small very big … if the product-service is super-cool and one purposefully masters buzz/viral marketing.) *Innovative! (Must keep renewing and expanding and revising and re-imagining “the promise” to employees, the customer, the community.)
The “Small Guys” Guide: Wallop Wal*Mart16 *Brand-Lovemark* (*Kevin Roberts) Maniacs! (“Branding” is not just for big folks with big budgets. And modest size is actually a Big Advantage in becoming a local-regional-niche “lovemark.”) *Focus on women-as-clients. (Most don’t. How stupid.) *Excellence! (A small player … per me … has no right or reason to exist unless they are in Relentless Pursuit of Excellence. One earns the right—one damn day and client experience at a time!—to beat the Big Guys in your chosen niche!)
“Experiencesare as distinct from services as services are from goods.”Joseph Pine & James Gilmore, The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage
The “Experience Ladder”Experiences ServicesGoods Raw Materials
DREAM: “A dream is a complete moment in the life of a client. Important experiences that tempt the client to commit substantial resources. The essence of the desires of the consumer. The opportunity to help clients become what they want to be.” —Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni
Experience LadderDreams Come TrueAwesome ExperiencesServicesGoodsRaw Materials
“No longer are we only an insurance provider.Today, we also offer our customers the products and services that help them achieve their dreams—whether it’s financial security, buying a car, paying for home repairs, or even taking a dream vacation.”—Martin Feinstein, CEO, Farmers Group
“The sun is setting on the Information Society—even before we have fully adjusted to its demands as individuals and as companies. We have lived as hunters and as farmers, we have worked in factories and now we live in an information-based society whose icon is the computer.We stand facing the fifth kind of society: the Dream Society.… Future products will have to appeal to our hearts, not to our heads. Now is the time to add emotional value to products and services.” —Rolf Jensen/ The Dream Society:How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business
“Brands have run out of juice. They’re dead.”—Kevin Roberts/Saatchi & Saatchi
Brand …………………………………………………. LovemarkRecognized by consumers ………………. Loved by PeopleGeneric ………………………………………………… PersonalPresents a narrative ………………….. Creates a Love storyThe promise of quality ……………… A touch of SensualitySymbolic ………………………………………………….. IconicDefined ………………………………………………….. InfusedStatement ………………………………………………….. StoryDefined attributes ……………………... Wrapped in MysteryValues ………………………………………………………. SpiritProfessional …………………………... Passionately CreativeAdvertising agency ………………………….. Ideas companySource: Kevin Roberts, Lovemarks
Tattoo Brand:What % of users would tattoo the brand name on their body?
Top 10 “Tattoo Brands”*Harley .… 18.9%Disney .... 14.8Coke …. 7.7Google .... 6.6Pepsi .... 6.1Rolex …. 5.6Nike …. 4.6Adidas …. 3.1Absolut …. 2.6Nintendo …. 1.5*BRANDsense: Build Powerful Brands through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Sound, Martin Lindstrom
LovemarkDreams Come True Awesome ExperiencesSolutionsServicesGoodsRaw Materials
