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Making An Argument For Better Marketing

Is your marketing working for or against you? In any case, you are the judge. I recently took a college course on The Art of Debate. It was with a Wake Forest professor named Dr. Jarrod Atchinson. It contains over 24 half-hour lectures and digs deep into the history, purpose, and strategy of debate. In…

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Focusing on the 5 A-Holes of Marketing

A salesman and a marketing guy walk into a bar… This really happened. Well, the bar was at a country club. I had the pleasure of spending a Fore-Hour Nature Meeting with Larry Long Jr ? where we spent hours trying to hit a little white ball into a hole. I love this kind of…

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Dropping Knowledge Bombs And Hitting Targets

I have mentioned before, I am a fan of Malcolm Gladwell and his podcast, Revisionist History. His last book The Bomber Mafia was about the race to use strategic bombing to end World War II. This was before the Manhattan Project which yielded the first atomic bomb that was built and used to change the…

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Tag… You're In! Segmenting Secrets

I have been listening to an audiobook by music producer Rick Rueben called The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Rick is a little eclectic but highly prolific. He discusses how inspiration is found, cultivated, and acted upon to create art. Art is not just music to him. It is anything that we as humans make.…

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Fad, Fame, Or Fortune… It's About Business (and Time)

Test of Time Back in 2015, I talked about my concept of the Marketing Trifecta. I will explain what that is in a bit, but there has been a lot of buzz over the last 8 years about new tools that will revolutionize marketing. I have seen so many of them try and fail, come…

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The Power of Awareness & The Awareness of Power

I got hacked. Well, my credit card did. I was balancing my books when I noticed two charges from GoDaddy India on a credit card with a $25,000 limit. I use GoDaddy for domain names, but not in India so that was a BIG RED FLAG! Immediately, I called the credit card company and they…

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