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Add Understanding To Truth
Let’s start with truth. It’s a wonderful, unavoidable, exhilarating, depressing, freeing, and confining thing … and most important as a marketer, it will always find a way to surface. So begin by acknowledging exactly what your products and services are; … Continue reading
Propellers Or Anchors: What’s Attached To Your Marketing?
Propellers and anchors have specific and opposite functions: One is designed to move you, and the other is designed to hold you in place. Being held in place is not necessarily bad, but it is not moving you ahead. Sometimes … Continue reading
A Client’s Bill Of Rights
I’ve written about what it takes to be a great client . Here is a list of 15 “Rights” you, as the client, should expect from a great marketing agency. This is also a way to tell if you are … Continue reading
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Tagged business analyst, Client, consumer goods, financial services, marketing, Marketing services, Orogen, packaged goods, Point of sale, public relations, renewable energy, sales, silicon valley, social media, software, software-as-a-service, solar energy, startups, televison
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Eight Principles of Fault-Line Marketing
If you’ve been actively involved in marketing for at least six months, then you’ve run into the phrase “fundamental discontinuity”. For marketing purposes, this means your industry/your business/your product jumps to a new level without typical straight line evolution. Everybody … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, consumer goods, eCommerce, financial services, Marketing, Medical technology, Mobile Payments, organic, Orogen, Public Relations, renewable energy, siliconvalley, social media, software, Solar energy, startups
Tagged advertising, business development, consumer goods, financial services, marketing, media, Orogen, packaged goods, Point of sale, renewable energy, sales, silicon valley, social media, software, solar energy, startups, Thomas Alva Edison
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To Be A Great Marketer, Be A Great Client
If you believe just paying your marketing agency is enough to get their best, then you’ve probably not learned how to be a great client, and you’ve never achieved your company’s full marketing potential. Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Business Development, consumer goods, Credit Cards, eCommerce, financial services, Marketing, Medical technology, Mobile Payments, Orogen, Public Relations, renewable energy, siliconvalley, social media, software, Solar energy
Tagged business analyst, Client, consumer goods, financial services, marketing, Marketing services, packaged goods, public relations, sales, silicon valley, social media, software, solar energy
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Social Media – One Big Trade Show?
Ever get the feeling that social media is turning into one big trade show … you know the kind I mean, where 90% of the booth traffic is other exhibitors and/or competitors, and not necessarily your customers.
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Posted in Advertising, Business Development, consumer goods, eCommerce, Marketing, Orogen, Public Relations, social media, Solar energy, startups, Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, consumer goods, financial services, marketing, media relations, packaged goods, public relations, sales, social media, startups, trade shows, Twitter
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Lady Gaga Marketing 1O1
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, a.k.a. Lady Gaga, and her management/creative team of Matt Williams, Troy Carter, and Vincent Herbert, have created a marketing template for today. Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Business Development, consumer goods, Credit Cards, eCommerce, financial services, Marketing, organic, Orogen, Public Relations, renewable energy, social media, software, Solar energy, startups, Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, business development, consumer goods, financial services, Lady Gaga, marketing, media relations, Orogen, packaged goods, Point of sale, product introduction, product launch, public relations, renewable energy, sales, sales presentations, solar energy, startups, Vanity Fair
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Consumers Are Becoming Numb And Numb-er: What To Do
So, consumers have lowered their personal information gates, while simultaneously, and by necessity, fortifying their incoming communication filters. The result: numb and numb-er. Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Business Development, consumer goods, Credit Cards, eCommerce, financial services, Marketing, Medical technology, Mobile Payments, organic, Orogen, Public Relations, renewable energy, siliconvalley, software, software-as-a-service, Solar energy, startups
Tagged advertising, business analyst, business development, consumer goods, financial services, Google, investor relations, marketing, media relations, Orogen, packaged goods, Point of sale, product introduction, product launch, public relations, sales, sales presentations, silicon valley, solar energy, Twitter
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10 Observations About The Great Depression That May Apply To The Great Recession
So, what did we learn from the Great Depression we can apply to the generation of the Great Recession? Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Business Development, consumer goods, Credit Cards, eCommerce, financial services, Marketing, Medical technology, Mobile Payments, Orogen, Public Relations, renewable energy, siliconvalley, software, software-as-a-service, Solar energy, startups, Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, business analyst, business development, consumer goods, financial services, Great Depression, Great Recession, investor relations, marketing, media, media relations, Orogen, packaged goods, Point of sale, product introduction, product launch, public relations, renewable energy, sales, sales presentations, silicon valley, software, software-as-a-service, solar energy
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If You Don’t Feel You Are Over-Communicating, You’re Probably Under-Communicating
A fatal flaw we have as humans is we know what we mean … and make the leap of faith others know what we mean. Many companies have perished from that jump. Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Business Development, consumer goods, financial services, Marketing, Medical technology, organic, Orogen, Public Relations, renewable energy, siliconvalley, software, software-as-a-service, Solar energy, startups
Tagged advertising, business analyst, business development, consumer goods, investor relations, marketing, media, media relations, Orogen, packaged goods, product introduction, public relations, sales, sales presentations
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