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Argentum Strategy Group Powerful Customer Approaches What's New Building Powerful Value Propositions The Power Of Habit Quick Links Read some of our recent Marketing OpEd blog posts: 4.3 THINGS I LEARNED AT LINKEDIN'S MARKETING SYMPOSIUM PINTEREST FOR B2B Follow Us! Why You Received This This newsletter was sent to you because you have had contact with Argentum Strategy Group in some way. If you would like to unsubscribe, please do so below. Spring 2012 Greetings! In this issue, we share a recent webinar we conducted on creating powerful value propositions for your business, along with insight into how consumer habits can help inform your marketing. Also included are links to two recent blog posts that provide some great tips for using LinkedIn and Pinterest. But first, we are excited to share some great news about a company we advise, GiveForward : Since its 2008 founding, GiveForward has helped more than 9,000 friends and families of people struggling with illness to raise over $15 million! The team's latest accolade is a gold Edison Award for being "at the forefront of new products, services, marketing, design, and innovation." If you would like to support some of the fundraising efforts on GiveForward, venture capitalist Brad Feld is currently offering matching gifts as part of a 3 year campaign to promote random acts of kindness. Learn more about it . Building Powerful Value Propositions CAN YOU ANSWER FIVE KEY QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS? Last fall, we were asked to speak at a conference about how to build better value propositions. The presentation was so well received that we turned it into a webinar. The webinar focuses on using the answers to five key questions to create a basic, singletarget positioning, typically best for B2C products. There is also an overview of how to approach dualtargeted positioning, which is most useful for B2B companies that have more complex, multilayered sales. Watch the webinar . Also, for those of you unfamiliar with the basic positioning formula, you can access it our website here .

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Argentum Strategy Group ­ Powerful Customer Approaches

What's New

Building Powerful ValuePropositions

The Power Of Habit

Quick Links

Read some ofour recent

Marketing Op­Ed blog posts:

4.3 THINGS I LEARNEDAT LINKEDIN'S

MARKETING SYMPOSIUM

  PINTEREST FOR B2B 

Follow Us! 

Why You ReceivedThis

This newsletter was sent toyou because you have had

contact with ArgentumStrategy Group in some

way.

If you would like tounsubscribe, please do so

below.

Spring 2012

G r e e t i n g s !

In this issue, we share a recent webinar we conducted on creating powerful valuepropositions for your business, along with insight into how consumer habits can helpinform your marketing. Also included are links to two recent blog posts that providesome great tips for using LinkedIn and Pinterest.

But first, we are excited to share some great news about a company we advise,GiveForward:  

Since its 2008 founding, GiveForward has helped more than 9,000 friends andfamilies of people struggling with illness to raise over $15 million! The team'slatest accolade is a gold Edison Award for being "at the forefront of newproducts, services, marketing, design, and innovation."If you would like to support some of the fundraising efforts on GiveForward,venture capitalist Brad Feld is currently offering matching gifts as part of a 3­year campaign to promote random acts of kindness. Learn more about it.

Building Powerful Value Propositions   

C A N   Y O U   A N S W E R   F I V EK E Y   Q U E S T I O N S   A B O U TY O U R   B U S I N E S S ?   Last fall, we were asked to speak at aconference about how to build better valuepropositions. The presentation was so wellreceived that we turned it into a webinar. 

The webinar focuses on using the answers to five key questions to create a basic,single­target positioning, typically best for B2C products. There is also an overview ofhow to approach dual­targeted positioning, which is most useful for B2B companiesthat have more complex, multi­layered sales.  Watch the webinar. Also, for those of you unfamiliar with the basic positioning formula, you can access itour website here.    

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Favorite ArticlesWE   R E A D   I T   A L L   S O   Y O U   D O N ' TH A V E   T O      We regularly read a library's worth of material inorder to share the most relevant articles,thought leadership and just plain thought­provoking items with our clients.  This is one ofour recent favorites.   THE POWER OF HABITUnderstanding customer habits opens a window intobetter aligning your product or service with yourcustomers' regular behaviors.   Charles Duhigg's latest book, The Power of Habit, provides a fascinating glimpse intothe way habits influence human behavior. An excerpt from the book regarding Target'smarketing to pregnant women appeared in the New York Times magazine in earlyMarch, and it got many marketers buzzing about how Duhigg's insights could beapplied to marketing. The most passed along anecdote relates to how Target "knew" ateenage girl was pregnant before her father did. (Read more from the New York Timesarticle: How Companies Learn Your Secrets )

We're already putting the book to use with one of our newest clients. He and his teamcreated a new­to­the­world piece of cardio exercise equipment. According to ThePower of Habit, the best time to form a new behavior is when there is a disruption in theold behavior pattern. This insight is helping us to explore targeting runners after theysustain a sports injury.   Find out more about the book in an interview with the author featured on NPR: Habits:How They Form And How To Break Them  

With our six­year anniversary fast approaching on June 1, we wanted to take amoment to thank you for your support!  We also appreciate your continued referrals, and are always excited to meet newbusinesses in the $2M­$100M revenue range that might need our supplementalmarketing strategy services.  We also happily continue to help companies of all sizeslead growth initiatives and other projects when they are under­staffed or in transition. Please feel free to pass our information along! 

Regards,

Susan SilverPresidentArgentum Strategy Group

www.argentumstrategy.com 

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