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BACON – Chapter 8: Like Me… Like You!

If you think about it, it’s easy to know about many people. There are people I know that I have never met in person or even had an online conversation with. Going from Know to Trust requires a stepping stone, and that’s called a Like. You can try to jump over that stone, but it…

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BACON – Chapter 7: Getting to Know You

Know is a beautiful word. People ask, “You know what?” They text IYKYK (meaning if you know, you know). Know can also be a derivative of knowledge. Know is a two-way street when it comes to marketing. You want people to know about you and your business. You may also want to know who knows…

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BACON – Chapter 2: Cha-Cha-Cha – Changes

You can’t control change; it controls you. Chances are, you are in one of two camps: 1) Those who embrace technology or 2) Those who are overwhelmed with all the change. Now, you may still be a damn the torpedos, I am going to use my printed Franklin planner and Palm Pilot Blueberry thingy kind…

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BACON – Chapter 1: Relationship Marketing

Marketing has evolved over the decades. I've spent more than forty-five years in business. During that time, business has experienced many changes, innovations, breakthroughs, revolutions, and upheavals. I’ve had the chance to see the birth and evolution of the personal computer, and I worked at the company that pioneered the cell phone. Then I watched…

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Sales & Marketing… It’s a MATH Problem

MATH is HARD! When I was a kid, I did not have to walk to school uphill, both ways, in the snow! But it was before you could buy calculators and computers in the dollar store. Math was always done on paper and memorized (like multiplication tables). Memorized meant repetition and relevance. I am trying…

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Moral Marketing… (and why it's tough)

This is the time of the year when there tends to be a heightened sense of humanity, spirituality, and morality in the air. Business slows down, and we start to think about something more than ourselves while being thrown into the mix of chaos, hustle, and short emotional fuses. Have you ever heard the phrase,…

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