Strategize your product line success
Strategize your product line success
The products that durable goods companies sell are the lifeblood of the organization.
As a strategic business partner, ProductQuest Strategies coaches and guides durable goods manufacturing companies to build solid product strategies focusing on growth. We facilitate healthy productive discussions, working sessions, and workshops with key organizational business leaders driving long-term product sales and margin growth strategy alignment. We coach clients to utilize agile techniques to accelerate go-to-market initiatives focusing on channel partners and product end-users. ProductQuest Strategies also provides short-term product marketing support for special projects and surge capacity situations to accelerate new revenue stream commercialization.
The target customer for ProductQuest Strategies is small to medium-sized durable goods manufacturing companies. Start-ups may also be a good fit for our services. We are well equipped to support B2B and/or B2C product opportunities.
The process begins with a no charge Introductory Get Acquainted Virtual Meeting.
Introducing Rick Showers, Founder and Principal Consultant of ProductQuest Strategies LLC.
With over 25 years of professional experience, Rick brings a multi-faceted history of achievement and leadership in the areas of Product Marketing, Product Line Management, Product Strategy, Global Launch Strategy, Sales/Margin Growth, and International Business.
His background features high-volume manufacturing organizations of global scale spanning industrial, commercial, and consumer markets.
Rick’s leadership style is one of leading by example and building organizational consensus in driving cross-functional initiatives. His down-to-earth style knocks down barriers, brings different perspectives into discussions, and uses humor to keep the conversation going and reach alignment.
Rick’s first product line management role began in 1994. His career and experience progressed through positions of increasing responsibility to Vice President level roles at a large global durable goods manufacturer leading the organizational Product Line Management function.
Rick’s detailed background is available on LinkedIn
ProductQuest Strategies offers customized client solutions ranging from short-term product marketing project support, surge capacity support, comprehensive go-to-market strategy development, to fractional business leadership.
ProductQuest Strategies works with clients to identify new markets and new sales channels to incrementally grow sales and margin.
ProductQuest Strategies helps clients explore opportunities to increase and streamline collaboration between the product marketing and sales teams driving revenue improvement.
ProductQuest Strategies helps clients to optimize product positioning and pricing in served markets resulting in increased market share and profits.
ProductQuest Strategies facilitates productive discussions with clients identifying opportunities to refresh and relaunch existing products creating market excitement and increased sales.
ProductQuest Strategies works with clients to identify underperforming products or product lines that should be retired or replaced creating sharper market focus.