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Back to Basics: Marketing

by Randy Duermyer December 2, 2011 Marketing

As the year draws to a close, most business owners start thinking about how they can grow in the year ahead. One great way to do that is to look at your marketing efforts over the past year to see what worked and what didn’t. Were your marketing efforts spot on for 2011 or not? [...]

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4 Marketing Lessons I Learned from My Cats

by Mistina Picciano June 22, 2011 Marketing
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Whether or not you’re an animal person, you’ve probably seen studies touting the positive psychological benefits of pets. But, have you encountered many articles on the business lessons to be gained from our furry friends? At any rate, I hope you’ll find these tips moderately useful, if not mildly entertaining.

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Is DIY Marketing Right for You?

by Mistina Picciano April 7, 2011 Marketing
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If you work in a firm that doesn’t have a dedicated marketing department, you’ve likely wrestled with the decision of whether or not to hire outside help. And you’ve probably considered the usual pros and cons. PROS We can focus on our core business. Additional help will improve our marketing consistency. We’ll get expert advice [...]

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Are You Marketing in a Vacuum?

by Mistina Picciano April 1, 2011 Business Development
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Yesterday, driving to a client meeting, I saw a car in one of those promotional wrappers. This one caught my eye not only because of the bright red color, but also because it was advertising a home goods store where I used to shop. The store in my hometown had closed, and I feared they [...]

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Testimonials Trump Sex: Are You Getting Any?

by Travis Heermann July 23, 2010 Business Development
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As any marketer or sales pro know, good selling is all about the rationalization. We build up prospects’ emotions, touch them, lead them, and then we help them rationalize whipping out the credit card.  The good news is that we, as human beings, rationalize often. To borrow from the film The Big Chill: Michael: I [...]

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How to Be a Marketing Drama Queen

by Travis Heermann July 21, 2010 Communication
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Evoking response is the primary duty of any marketing campaign. Generating more sales and revenue than the campaign cost to produce is the bottom line. Any good marketer knows that the first step is understanding the benefits of the product or service. Why should the customer care about what you’re saying? How can your widget [...]

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What the Ancient Greeks Knew about Marketing

by Travis Heermann March 12, 2010 Audience
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At its essence, marketing is a form of persuasion used to convince the audience to “buy” something, whether they’re buying a product, or a service, or an idea, or ideology. Selling anything requires persuasion, and persuasion is both science and art. The ancient Greeks developed persuasion and argument into a science and an art, beginning [...]

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Benefits of Multi-Channel Marketing

by Travis Heermann January 21, 2010 Business Development
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Multi-channel marketing uses a variety of avenues to expose potential customers to your business’s marketing message. Direct mail, advertising, catalogs, telephone sales, retail outlets, websites, email, and more recently social media networks are all ways to reach customers, both new and returning. This has come to be known as “bricks, clicks, and flips,” with reference [...]

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What Every Business Owner Should Know About Marketing

by Travis Heermann September 22, 2009 Business Development
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Marketing can be boiled down to a few simple ideas–but they are ideas that can be difficult to implement.  Absorbing these ideas–implementing them on a consistent basis–will put you head and shoulders above your competition.

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Never Ever Assume

by Mistina Picciano January 22, 2009 Business Development

Most acquaintances know that I’m a tea drinker. Some of my friends even call me a tea snob. Those in my inner circle describe me as, well, obsessed. (I’m currently at 26 teapots and counting, but that’s another story.) When my aunt suggested we visit a tea plantation, my heart did a little dance of [...]

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