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What's old is new again: Don't Mummify your content. A couple views mummys.
What's Old Is New… Don't Mummify Your Content!

So while watching some TV this weekend I came across a couple of very interesting stories. One of them was that they found new mummies. Yeah, they found them in Egypt buried somewhere, and I guess they were priests or something. They weren't famous like Cleopatra or anything like that, but it was still pretty…

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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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How Does Making Yourself Obsolete Makes you More Valuable Now?

So, I don't know if you've ever read the book “How To Win Friends And Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. It's a great book, and one of the things that it says in the book that I think really stands out is the sweetest sound in peoples' ears is their own name. People love that.…

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Content Marketing And Making The Customer The Hero Of You Story

I'd like to talk to you about content marketing, but more specifically, I want to talk about making the customer the hero of your story. Now, I am sure you have gone to websites and you start reading the copy and you see somebody saying, “We have won such-and-such awards, and we have done so…

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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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