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Sales and Marketing Training
Consultants, Contractors, and Employees: Where Are We Heading?
Often, I hear the screams of pain when we turn to external consultants or contractors to get work completed. It’s a delicate situation – sometimes employees feel like they are being betrayed that you’re going external. Quite honestly, there’s a learning curve and additional expense to going external. There are advantages, though. Source: Despair, Inc. Humor aside, consultants and contractors…
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Corporate Sponsorship
If I could sell patches on my suit, I think I could start a bidding war between Papa John’s, Donato’s and Dominoe’s:
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Content Marketing
Sitecore Brings Content Management to Printed Brochures
The marketing campaign production life cycle, starting with the conceptualization of an idea and extending through the development phase to the final report, data sheet, brochure, catalog, magazine or anything else is a tedious and time-consuming process. Sitecore, a market leader in online content management system software, has rolled out a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize this…
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Content Marketing
Is Your Content Strategy Production, Presence or Authority?
One of the analogies I often tell people about our agency is that we’re not a Marketing Jiffy Lube. Our job isn’t to get you in and out quickly, throw a sticker on your windshield and see you next month. We’re more of the pit crew frantically getting the car ready for the race. There are plenty of Jiffy Lubes…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Influencer Marketing: Beware of the Internet Famous
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a woman asking about my book. It was a bit of a sad email – reading that a woman who wanted to buy my e-book had spent a ton of money on the site where it was talked about and gotten no results in the past. Ironically, the article they read…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Dangerous Lure of Avoiding the Social Web
I was thinking about naming this post, Why Jonathan Salem Baskin is Wrong… but I actually agree with him on many points in his post, The Dangerous Lure of the Social Web. I agree, for instance, that social media gurus often try to push businesses into leveraging the media without fully understanding the culture or resources at the company they’re…
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Is Domain Parking Worthwhile?
No… or maybe not. Not for me, anyways. What is Domain Parking? It’s when you have a great idea for a domain name, you check to see if it’s purchased. It’s not… so you buy it. Instead of utilizing the domain for a website, you ‘park’ it. Domain parking is a means of additional income and some of the largest…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Reward with Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
Rewards. At a couple of my last jobs, my bosses were always shocked that I didn’t care about monetary rewards. It’s not that I didn’t want the money, it’s that I wasn’t motivated by it. I’m still not. In fact, it was always a little insulting to me – that I would somehow work harder if I had a carrot…
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Marketing Infographics
Reasons Why a Mobile Facebook is Serious Business
Releasing a new mobile version of Facebook for tablets and mobile devices may have been one of the best moves they had ever made. Facebook is now seeing a 67% year over year growth according to this infographic from Qwaya, Reasons Why a Mobile Facebook is Serious Business. It’s time to start taking Facebook on mobile seriously. The whole world…
