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Are You Asking Yourself… The Reason I Am Doing This Is?

I've been in business for over 40 years, and over the last 18, 20 years I've been working in marketing other companies to their perfect clients. One of the first questions I ask them is, “Who is your perfect audience?” Now, I get one of two different answers. It's either, “I can identify that person,”…

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5 New Ways On How-To Use Audio & Video In Your Marketing

We all know that social media is a great content distribution tool. It's a great way to get your content into the hands of your audience. But the first question you've got to ask yourself is where is your audience hanging out? Chances are if they're consumers, they're hanging out on Facebook. If they're business…

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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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How to Increase Profits with Sales and Marketing Alignment

People constantly ask about how to grow their businesses. I often tell them, “You can increase profits by aligning your sales and marketing.” I happen to run a one-man operation. Maybe you run one with a complete sales team and a complete marketing team. Either way, it doesn't matter. For some of you, this will…

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What Is The Perfect Marketing Strategy For Your Business? Part 5 – Telling Your Story

Buddy Guy – The Dog Let me tell you a quick story. About six years ago or so, we adopted a dog. We posted a picture of up on Facebook so people could name him, and they named him Buddy Guy. He's around 100 pounds, a Black Lab, and I'm a Blues player, so it…

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What Is The Perfect Marketing Strategy For Your Business? – Part 3 – Targeting New…

Past vs New Customers We're in this series called What Is The Perfect Marketing Strategy For Your Business? For this third part, and we're going to be talking about targeting new customers. Hopefully, you listened to the last one where we talked about examining your past customers. So what we want to look at is:…

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