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Let's Keep This Between Us…

I recently came up with a Billion-Dollar Idea. I am sharing it with you, so please don't share it with anyone else. It's going to make me rich, and I would not want anyone to copy or steal it. I created an app that will stop delivering snail mail, emails, texts, radio, and TV commercials…

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The 3 Things That Make Marketing Harder

You've Come A Long Way, Baby It's incredible how fast things change. Do you remember that slogan? “You've Come A Long Way, Baby.” That phrase was used in an advertising campaign for Virginia Slims, a brand of cigarettes marketed specifically to women. The slogan was introduced in 1968, and cigarette ads were banned in 1971.…

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The PATH to Profits

I looked at the number of blogs I have on my website, and it's 411 posts. That's 7.9 years' worth of weekly posts. At one point, there was more. I started blogging in 2006. That's almost 18 years of content. I cleaned out everything earlier than 1/1/2017 since I felt it was less relevant to…

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All Marketing (and Sales) are Personal

I was listening to a podcast interview with comedian Mike Birbiglia. I was not familiar with him, but I found his take on comedy interesting. He believes that comedians have a one-on-one relationship with their audiences. Social media and podcasts can help to create a more intimate relationship with fans. Some influencers lose that connection…

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What To Do When What Was Working… STOPS WORKING!

Businesses, especially ones that have well-established systems and methodologies, tend to ebb and flow. It's pretty common for a business to slow in the dog days of summer and pick up in the fall, but I hear frustrations from some and jubilation from others. Some clients are seeing traffic to their website drop and associating…

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Data is a Gift… Share The Love!

Do you remember life before Beepers, CB Radios, and Fax Machines? All three gained momentum and popularity in the '70s and '80s and peaked in the '90s. However, all three fell victim to mobile phones. Beepers became text messaging, faxes became email, and CB radios became Nextel phones and then standard mobile phones. Mobile phones…

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