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Truth Bomb: You Will Fail in Marketing and It's OK.

It’s true, 90% of all B2B companies market in pretty much the same way. It goes something like this:

  • Make a product/service

  • Talk a lot about their product/service

  • Produce a load of boring content and collateral to sell their product/service

  • Use various techniques to attempt to stand out and cut through the noise

  • Use a variety of channels and platforms like advertising, email, or direct marketing, as well as social media to make people aware of their product/service

  • Build a sales funnel and manage and …

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Should Your Company be Emulating Apple?

I was reading an article by Boyce Thompson on Builder Online. He wrote about how construction companies (builders in particular) look to star companies like Lexus in the 90’s and today Apple for inspiration. He started off great by encouraging companies to reinvent themselves and to not be intimidated by competition as the economy turns around, but then he does what every other person does that commends Apple for doing a great job—they only talk about an Apple product.

Instead of writing a testim…

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Risky Move, Would You Tell Your Customers Not to Buy a Product You Sell?

http://www.nicheprofitclassroomlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bigstockphoto_Dont_Do_It__2137546.jpgThe short answer is probably no, why would you think of such a thing? Or, if I wouldn’t recommend it, why would I carry it? But looking at the bigger picture, you may change your mind.

I read a story on PRI about a grocery store in Italy that ran ads recommending their customers not buy bottled water at their store, or if they do, only buy local bottled water. If the store’s customers listen, the company stands to lose $140 million dollars over the next eighteen months.

This drastic action is one …

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What Business Are You In?

No matter how you spin it, define it or promote it, there are only two answers that are ever acceptable. These two answers fit every industry and business that ever has been, is currently or ever will be.

Yes I am aware that is a bold statement, but it is true.

All businesses are in the ‘people’ business or the ‘communication’ business. Actually, both of them are one in the same.

Every business exists to meet a need or desire of people and in order to do business with them, you must communica…

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