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What Do Your Customers REALLY Want? Advertising, Marketing, and Relationship Marketing

I'm going to make an assumption, you don't want to open your email and see that you've been added to an email list that has nothing to do with you or your business needs. Frankly, it's a waste of time and it can cause you to have a negative opinion about the company or brand…

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How Utilizing Consumer Marketing Methods May Undermine Your Business Sales

My wife and I have been watching a documentary series called America, the Story of Us. Two stories in the last episode really got my attention. The first was about Richard Warren Sears. Yep, that guy. He purchased a shipment of watches that never made it to a jeweler and then sold them at a…

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Leveraging LinkedIn To Grow Your B2B Business Through Social Networking

I love teaching. I love teaching people about leveraging LinkedIn. One of my favorite, and humbly, one of the best courses I've ever created and teach on a regular basis is my latest LinkedIn class. I call it TRIBE. The reason I call it TRIBE is because it's built around a concept of only focusing on…

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Want To Improve Your Business? Here Is My Know-Like-Trust System!

Let me start off by asking you a question. Do you want to improve your business? Well if you do, I'm going to ask you to start thinking differently about know, like, and trust. Now, know, like and trust has been around for years. It's been attributed to people like Mark Twain, Stephen Covey, and…

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Dunbar's Number… And Why It's Better To Be Part Of A Tribe Than An Influencer

I was scrolling through Facebook, and one ad caught my eye. It said, “I didn't think much of LinkedIn until I got 150 prospects.” And at the top, it says, “I completely stopped cold calling and got 150 prospects.” Well, common logic tells me that prospects are another way to say you are cold calling,…

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Vanity Fair, Unfair Vanity, and Vanity Metrics

A while back, I was talking about Cancel Culture on The Bacon Podcast episode 654. What I was talking about was canceling subscriptions. I was going through some of my accounting this weekend and noticed I was paying $10 a month for a newspaper I wasn't reading. Checked with my wife, she wasn't reading it…

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