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Looking Into the Future… By LISTENING the Past

Over the last weekend, we watched a little TV. When you speak, teach, and pontificate for a living, it's nice to have a little downtime and just LISTEN! Sometimes we choose sports, sitcoms, or gameshows, but this time we chose a documentary and a news magazine. The first story we watched was about the Webb…

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Is it Time to Get New Business Cards?

It's hard to believe that close to three and a half years ago almost all business came to a screeching halt. In-person work, meetings, and business were severely affected. No matter how you feel about viruses, masks, and the shutdowns, it was a time of uncertainty, panic, and disruption. One part of building and maintaining…

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Who is More Useful to Your Business? A CMO or a CRO?

I think I can safely say that you don't go into business to lose money… unless you intentionally do so for a tax write-off. Yet making money is not as easy as it's often characterized. It takes a great idea mixed with execution. It takes hard work mixed with luck. And, it takes money mixed…

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Look Over There? How to Turn Distraction into Disruption

I have had multiple people ask me about using AI in marketing. They had this perception that I would show them how it works so they could replace my services with this marketing Golden Ticket that has a psychological or hypnotical effect to magically convert the internet to an ATM. I would be happy to…

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Seconds… Chance Interactions

If you manage your own or other business websites, I imagine you are using Google Analytics or another data manager to explore the traffic to your website. The beauty of using Google Analytics is that you have a baseline to judge your traffic against other similar websites. I know this because I manage over 100…

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