Articles for Top Line Growth

from Kordell Norton

We provide here some articles covering various topics and subjects that can be used by you and your organization.  If you do indeed use these, we ask that you give the appropriate credit with Kordell Norton's name as the author and note that all rights are reserved and please let us know. 

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Because of the Wonderful Things He Does . . . .

3 Elements of change that can make your next meeting or event a over the top success

Marketing On a Limited Budget

Using Memory Folders to get Mind Share with Your Customers

Catsup Bottles and Your Brand, Your Sales and YOUR Success

What can we learn from catsup bottles in growing your business?

The 7 A's of Change

The mental steps of dealing with the ups and downs of life

So you want to increase your sales?

The 15 Ways to Sell & Prospect

Critical Issues

The Guidelines to Focus Your Efforts and Resources

Core Values - A Primer

What research shows to be considered when adopting Core Values

High Execution Planning - The REAL work of a Leader and Manager

The guidelines for a HEP Planning session.

DISC Selling Skills

Methods to identify and then adapt to communication styles

DISC meets TetraMap meets Body Parts

A comparison of DISC and TetraMap and other behavior style profiles

Sell More Stuff!

The 4 Steps Selling Process and the 7 Customer Engagement Phases

The 5 Ps of Execution

The 5 Factors that impact Execution of a Business Plan

The Sales Matrix to Higher Margins

Moving your sales from transactions to consultative partnership with the customer

Prospecting by the Numbers

There are rules to successful prospecting. . . most of those involve numbers. . . .

Paretto Was An Optimist

An article on planning and the lack of  . . .

Focus, Focus, Focus

A focus of Management is to manage the focus.

SPOT and Time Management

Using the principles of a SPOT matrix combined with new generation time management

Sales Tips for Educators

The four simple steps to selling

Recruiting Tips, Tricks and Traps

Ways to increase enrollment and attendance at your school

Mission and Vision Statement Worksheet

Template for text based mission and vision statement

Focus Group of Students & Parents of Career Tech

Report on 60+ Students & Parents and their thoughts on marketing Tech Prep education

The 90 Second Audit

Helping the customer get organized with Audits

Tips for working a Tradeshow

Tips, Trick and Traps for Working Tradeshows

Ye Olde Rules of Marketing

Basic tenants of making your sales and marketing stand out

Crisis in School Leadership

Think and methods to increase revenues into the education institution.

Sales Tips, Tricks and Traps

Methods people use to drive their sales

Brainstorming Guidelines

Concepts to Improve the Brainstorm process

Customer Satisfaction and Quality

10 tips to being a leader in your own growth

Hugging An Elephant at Pebble Beach

Account Review Sessions Guidelines with Big Customers

How can you say your are customer oriented if you are not. . . listening?

Listening to the Customer, a cornerstone to business growth

Storyboarding - New Uses for an Old Tool

The mechanics of Storyboarding in Brainstorming

Top Line Growth - What to Focus On

The focus and disciplines needed to grow the top line of an organization

EPRS & The 4 P's of Selling

A graphic of the four steps in a sale and the 4 types of questions to ask customers

Priority Matrix

For determining importance, priorities of programs, initiatives, goals and objectives

Rules for Marketing Materials - Writing Copy and Headlines

Here are some simple guidelines for creating advertising and marketing materials.

How the Unknown can change the World

How inventions by Gould and Hoff and the Synergy of their organizations changed the world

Goals Grid

Tool for prioritizing goals

About Kordell Norton - The Top Line Guy

Your organization has a strong interest in the "top line" for growth. As a consultant, speaker, author, Kordell Norton works with corporate, association, education and government organizations who want to focus on branding, sales, marketing, strategic planning/leadership, team building, and customer service.

Kordell was an executive with several multi-billion dollar corporations with executive suite positions in sales, HR, marketing and call centers. As a certified Graphic Facilitator, he uses highly visual processes, along with humor, and entertaining methods for powerful, high energy presentations.

Author of Throwing Gas on the Fire - creating drastic change in Sales and Marketing

He can be reached at (330) 405-1950 or at kordell@kordellnorton.com or at his website -  www.KordellNorton.com