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Michael Rogers, vice president communications for the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks Seena Sharp is the author of The Competitive Intelligence Advantage, about the importance of worrying more about your customers than you do your competitors.
Michael Rogers, vice president communications for the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks with Seena Sharp, business author and expert in market intelligence, about cultivating authenticity in your marketing and other customer interactions.
Do you have a great business idea? Do you wonder whether it can be a successful product or service? Concerned about what your competitors are doing? Do you even know who your competitors are? Wonder where the next opportunity is in your industry? Our guest today, Seena Sharp, is president of Sharp Market Intelligence, a firm specializing in marketing information. Seena is also the author of Competitive Intelligence Advantage: How to Minimize Risk, Avoid Surprises and Grow Your Business in a Changing World. She joins host Kelly Scanlon to talk about how market intelligence will save you valuable time, money and resources. Seena reputation and passion for marketing have earned her mention in the trade and business press, including Peter Drucker’s Leader to Leader newsletter, Bloomberg Business, The Los Angeles Times, Nation’s Business, Inc, Marketing News, and more. She’s also been quoted in books “Competitive Intelligence by Larry Kahaner, and others. Visit the Smart Companies archives to listen to more shows with host Kelly Scanlon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join us with Seena Sharp of Sharp Marketing as she helps us understand if it possible to social engineer with out the use of pretexting. She is the author of the book “Competitive Intelligence Advantage” She answers questions like: What type of information is the most important? How to collect valuable data? What are the best sources? And much much more!
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Seena Sharp has written a book about delivering and communicating the value of competitive intelligence, "Competitive Intelligence Advantage." Seena and I talk about a wide array of topics related to CI, business and strategy.