Just a little refresher course on how to know if marketing we’re observing is “good marketing” or not. I thought I’d do this by quoting some of my favorite marketing authors… “The goal of advertising is to sell more stuff to more people more often for more money” – Sergio Zyman “If it doesn’t sell, […]
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Networking is BRANDING!
Networking can be the most powerful marketing tool you have. This is because it puts you face-to-face with prospects, enables you to get to know all about how you can help them, then enables you to tailor your introduction to exactly that. When you network, you are the brand to those you meet wherever […]
Some of the best business advice I ever received…
Jack Welch gave me some of the best business/career/strategy advice I’ve ever received. Now, to be fair, he didn’t do it in one of our intimate conversations. Mr. Welch and I have never had any intimate conversations. Or any other manner of conversation. In fact, we’ve never even met. But I do consider him to […]
What if your target market doesn’t care about your offer?
It’s very possible that even though you have a value proposition that would do your potential customers all kinds of good, they may not care one bit about it! So what can you do? You change the focus in such a way that it gives them something to care about! It may be that your offer doesn’t […]
What is a brand, anyway?
What, exactly, is a brand? Simply put, it’s anything and everything your customer can associate with you. Your brand is the window, any window, through which your organization can be viewed. It’s any word the customer uses to describe you, and it’s any touch point your customer has with your organization. It’s also any […]
What’s the real goal?
Many of the frustrations in marketing come from focusing on the wrong things. We ask the wrong questions, which in turn makes the problem we’re trying to solve seem that much more difficult. In fact, we often end up trying to solve the wrong problem in the first place! Consider a typical Restaurant owner. She […]
Priceless Pricing Principles Purloined per Picasso
Pablo Picasso was once approached by a fan and asked to draw something for them as a souvenir. He created something in only a few minutes and presented it to the excited fan. Then he added, “That will be $10,000 franks.” The rather shocked fan pointed out that it took Picasso only a few minutes […]
Since we haven’t hammered social media in a while…
The best way for ANY business to get more business is simply to do GOOD business. You take care of your customers in such a way that they’ll want to come back, spend more, and tell others about you, and success will follow as sure as night follows day. Social media is but ONE tool […]