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Grab More Market Share

Grab More Market Share How to Wrangle Business Away from Lazy Competitors

Author: Ross Shafer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781118130049
Published In: August 2011
Format: Hardback , 105 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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Although McDonald's tested the McCafe' concept--offering specialty coffee and smoothies--many years before the recession hit, the official launch took place in early 2009. Why? Because they knew that was when Starbucks' market share was most vulnerable. And, in early 2010, McDonald's raked in $420m, not only stealing a staggering amount of business from Starbucks, but applying so much pressure that in 2009, Starbucks closed over 270 locations.

If you want to grow in a slowly recovering economy...a stagnant economy...or even a declining market, your best and only plan is to steal market share from your competitors and to remain reactive to the market's needs. Grab More Market Share will teach professionals how not settle for 1% growth. Ross' research uses rock-solid case studies that teach leaders to leverage the recovery to steal 10-15% market share from competitors. Ross alerts readers to the fact that they must leverage the culture (the public consciousness) to swing dollars towards their organizations. This same discipline will help professionals predict the next human behavior changes in buying habits.

Acknowledgments ix

Leaders, Read This First xi

Chapter 1 First, You Must Attack Market Share 1

Chapter 2 Don't Let the Culture Embarrass You 9

Chapter 3 They Want Customer Urgency . . . Not Customer Service 23

Chapter 4 User-Generated Leadership Rocks! 37

Chapter 5 Which Trusted Advisors Will Lead the Recovery? 51

Chapter 6 Not All Contrarian Thinkers Are Crazy 63

Chapter 7 To Office or Not to Office 83

Last Words 93

Backing Up These Outrageous Claims 95

About the Author 105

ROSS SHAFER is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers, management advisors, and seminar leaders on the subjects of motivating change, customer empathy and urgency, and market relevance. Speaking over seventy-five times a year, Ross frequently shares the stage with heavyweights like Colin Powell, Tom Peters, Jack Welch, and Malcolm Gladwell. A six-time Emmy Award winning TV host, writer, and producer, Ross left the entertainment world and turned his talents toward studying how cultural changes determine why certain organizations thrive during tough economic times, while others disappear into extinction. Find more at RossShafer.com