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The Ultimate Sales Question – How Can I Help You?

I want to talk about what I like to call the ultimate sales question. When you're selling or talking to clients, the first thing that you have to think about is: what problem do I solve? In most 12-step programs, step number one is realizing that you have a problem. Hopefully, your clients or potential…

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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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