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- Content Marketing
Blogger: CSS Style for Code on Your Blog
A nice post on how to dress up displaying code on your blog or website using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
- Content Marketing
ASP RSS Parser, Feed Reader
This weekend, I’ve been glued to my laptop, searching the net for web-based RSS feed readers. The reason is that I wanted to write an ASP RSS feed reader that would display the feed so that the content could be…
- Content Marketing
Why the Movie Industry is Failing
Me and my kids went and saw King Kong yesterday. The special effects and computer-generated graphics were fantastic. I think the true test of a movie (that depends on special effects) is whether you find yourself empathizing with the computer-generated…
- Content Marketing
What’s Your Bailiwick?
Understanding and effectively describing one’s authority is paramount in sales and marketing. How a brand, person, product, or service conveys authority can significantly impact its success and reputation. bailiwicknoun, pronounced [bey-luh-wik] A person’s specific area of interest, skill, or authority.…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Blogs Heating Up
This week was a difficult week. My job is fantastic, and my peers and my clients appreciate me. For the first time, though, I believe my blog interfered with my professional relationships. Having spoken with them at length, I don’t…
- Sales and Marketing Training
American Managers are Spoiled…
American Managers are spoiled. Some are even brats. Imagine managing on an island. Your island has limited human resources, was hours away from anything, and you spoke a different language. Attracting employees to your island is difficult due to the…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
What’s Your Corporate Caring Strategy?
I was attending church this weekend and heard a fantastic quote: People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care! That said, the question relates directly back to your marketing efforts. We always talk about…
- Sales and Marketing Training
PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts
It doesn’t take much to get me excited. I was in a PowerPoint training class the other day. The class was okay… I got a couple of tips and a nice list of keyboard shortcuts. The best keyboard shortcut isn’t…
- Sales and Marketing Training
Scope Creep: Less = More
I’ve wanted to follow up on my Open = Growth post for a while. Described in that post is the likelihood of success when folks concentrate on how their solutions can be integrated with other solutions. There’s a flip side…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Open = Growth
I worked with a national NFL Team to evaluate their database and email marketing tools and provide vendor recommendations. It was a comprehensive evaluation of their internal resources, budget constraints, timelines, as well as the multiple platforms that were central…