Simplify Your Marketing Strategy

There are so many options available when it comes to marketing. It is easy to get caught up in the process and want to employ all the bells and whistles that are possible. You can find yourself caught up in the moment of creative brainstorming revelation, or the...

Fearless Sales and Marketing

Why do we hesitate to move forward with a marketing plan, or that sales call? Fear. When you are thinking about your marketing strategy, think specifically. Do you ever find yourself saying things like “I want us to make a larger impact next year” or “We need to focus...

On Creativity and Strategy

I have written before about the difference between creative and artistic. I think there is another distinction that needs to be made , the difference between creativity and strategy. It is possible to have very creative ideas that aren’t strategic. Likewise, it is...

But marketing is hard

Here is an exercise I’m not kidding – you need to do this. Stick with me here. Step 1: Please take a minute and say (out loud) the sentences below in the whiniest 4-year-old tantrum voice that you can muster up. Marketing is haaaarrrddd. It’s hard to know what works....

There’s no more marketing secret sauce

There’s no more secret sauce. Don’t buy into the myth of corporate espionage. Are you struggling to participate on social media because you are afraid that your competitors will somehow learn your tricks and beat you? Just being honest, but that tells me that you...