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How-To Prospect For New Clients With Emotional Intelligence?

Have you ever thought about how to prospect for new clients with emotional intelligence? Now, I know a few of you are giggling, because you don't think the words “emotional” and “intelligence” should be used in the same sentence, but it's truly a thing. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize your own emotions and…

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What Will Be The Most Impactful New Marketing Trends For 2019?

Happy New Year As this year starts to come to a close, I want to take a second to reflect back on what happened last year. Now as far as my podcast goes (BaconPodcast.com), I had a blast. I had the chance to interview a whole bunch of CMO's, CEO's, CFO's, a whole bunch of…

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Why Your Story Matters? Marketing Is Easy and Strategy Is Hard!

I want to let you know that your story matters. And how you tell it can be a subtle difference between marketing and a strategy. Marketing is easy; strategy, not so much. The reason I bring up this topic is I had a conversation with a client, actually maybe a past client. It's hard to…

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How-To Simplify Your Marketing – What Would Mr. Rogers Do? WWMRD

It's a Beautiful Day… This past weekend, my wife and I watched a documentary. The title of the documentary was called “Won't You Be My Neighbor?” Now some of you are saying, “Oh, that's Mister Rogers!” and other people are going, “Huh?” Well Mister Rogers, Fred Rogers, had a TV show from the early '60s…

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Creating 400 Podcasts with Purpose, Perspective, and Persistence

This post is to celebrate the 400th episode of the BACON Podcast. That's right, 400 episodes. The Bacon Podcast was started back on November 2nd, 2014 right after the release of my first book, “It's Not About You, It's About BACON! Relationship Marketing in a Social Media World!” But this Podcast was not always called…

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How To Be More Productive By Taming Your Technology

Monday was Labor Day, and that's when I recorded the podcast that led to this blog. I saw a bunch of people on social media saying, “Hey, what are you doing today?” It's like, “Well, I'm kind of working, doing a podcast.” But I was also doing some other stuff, working on some future presentations…

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