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What's Your Marketing Mousetrap? – Part 1

In our last house, we had a small problem. Mice! It was mainly during the colder months, but it was still a problem. We had something they wanted: warmth and food. Our garage became a temporary safe haven and their instincts told them it was safe and inviting. My wife Kim is a bird person…

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Half Baked Cookies – How To Cook Your B2b Marketing to Perfection

I have often heard that the clock is set back one hour in the fall and your scale should be set back 10 pounds during the Holiday season. ‘Tis the season for holiday parties. There are cookies everywhere. There are cookie exchanges because you can't get enough. You can't eat all your own cookies (well…

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5 FREE Things That You Want To Maximize in 2023

Do you remember the good old days?  Go back to before 2007 and remember what your world was like. You may have been a PC or a Mac (you surely remember those commercials). Either way, you had a computer, monitor, printer, CD or DVD ROM drive, and chances are, speakers, a digital camera, video…

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Success Is Personal and How To String Together Little Wins

I have been told that people who have almost died have a new perspective on life. Once you almost lose your life, you stop taking life (especially getting up each day) for granted. Having been in the hospital twice in the last 3 years I would concur. One of those was a near-death experience (I…

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What's LOVE Got To Do With It? In Marketing – EVERYTHING!

Pay To Play Back when I was a little kid, my father was very nurturing of my desire to play music. He invested in a cheap acoustic guitar (hand me down from my sister) and guitar lessons (from a drill sergeant at West Point Military Academy – I kid you not!) Now keep in mind,…

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The Secret 3 B's of Finding Your Perfect Customer

Do You Want To Know A Secret? Did you know that the American bee is actually digital? Yup… It's a U.S.B. So is that a conspiracy theory, or a bad dad joke? Perspective is reality in the mind of the bee-holder! The definition of a conspiracy theory is: a theory that explains an event or…

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