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Social Media • The Marketing Trifecta • And A Pyramid Schema (It's Really A Sales…

Eatin' Meetin' The other day, I was out having an evening meeting with a client/friend. We were supposed to go golfing, but it was a little cold in the morning around this time of year. So anyway, we're eatin' and meetin' at this place called Egg Harbor in Geneva, Illinois, which is not very close…

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Why Do Content Marketing? It's all In The Numbers!

I don't know if you're on LinkedIn, but you probably get this all the time: somebody connects with you and then immediately messages you. Some of the people are just straightforward and say, “Hey, nice to meet you, looking forward to get to know you.” And that's the right way to do it. But the…

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Is Your Content Refuse or Recycle Friendly To The Internet?

This week I want to talk about garbage. Actually, I want to talk about recycling and refuse. This weekend I was watching an episode of 60 Minutes and they were talking about the amount of plastic floating in the ocean. Every single year eight million metric tons of plastic waste enters the oceans and it…

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The Seven Deadly Sins Or Viral Virtues of Marketing

I don't know about you, but if you're on Facebook and some other social media platforms, you probably have noticed that things are getting a little ugly and divisive, meaning that people are picking sides, picking fights, and things just are not happy. I have been spending time trying to figure out how to post…

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