Posts in corporate messaging
Losing Sales Under a Mountain of Books

Taking time to consider the buying experience from the customer’s perspective can go a long way to helping you achieve your objective. 

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A Tale of Two Clients

Whenever you’re hiring any type of consultant, do everyone a favor by understanding your goals and being an active participant. This is, after all, your business they’re trying to help. 

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Written With USA Quality

Don’t make your marketing counterproductive. Getting too fancy building the right messaging might make things more complicated than they need to be, and lose you sales in the process.

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Do You Want Free Money?

A long-shot contender at the bottom of recent polls, Doug Burgum’s offering $20 gift cards to the first 50,000 people who donate $1 to his campaign.

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Tie-In To Better Sales

There’s good news: there are crumbs falling off the table from big budget movie marketing, and you may be able to pick them up and benefit from it.

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Who Hates Steven Singer?

Why would someone hate Steven Singer SO much that they’ll announce it with a billboard and website?

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How To Market To Gen Z

As a 16-year-old digital marketer with a following of 100,000+ Gen Z members, I know what catches the eye of my followers.

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I Swung A Dead Cat

Medicare providers are much like realtors, popping up like mushrooms after a rainstorm. These days it’s impossible to swing a dead cat without hitting 10 of them.

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Shooting Yourself In The Foot

Clickbait has a well-deserved bad reputation. If you’re tempted to use it to attract attention to your own website, recognize going in that you’re tagging yourself up-front as a low-quality player.

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A Moment of Introspection

I say to HELL with self-pity and feeling downtrodden…I’ve got work to do! I’ll see you in five or 10 years, and we can talk about retirement and relaxing then!

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Hand Me That Goblet, Wench!

These folks strive to be different, and welcome others who are different. It’s become one of the few breweries I go out of my way to return to.

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Offending and Losing a Customer

Treat everyone with the utmost respect and parse your words carefully, because you never know what stray comment will set someone off.

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Giving Away Free Samples

Understanding that everyone wants something for nothing, look at what you sell and find a way to give away enough to whet your audience’s appetite.

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The Brouhaha at Anheuser Busch

Don’t like the spokesperson? A-B just wants to sell beer. They don’t care what body parts you have when you’re drinking it.

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Welcome to the Magentaverse

In The Devil Wears Prada, it was observed that a particular blue sweater represents millions of dollars and countless jobs guiding any consumer’s fashion choice, based on decisions that were made years ago.

Here's how this year's decision will impact YOU!

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Stealing From The Classics

This clever message is sure to persuade its audience to place advertising in this publication. Too bad they stole it from someone else.

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Hand Me That Čokoládová Tyčinka!

Well-run businesses let lawyers and accountants guide them while focusing on marketing and sales. THAT’s how you keep shareholders happiest in the long run.

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Getting 20% Off Nothing

Any organization concerned about their future must regularly examine their marketing strategies to best understand what customers are doing…and why.

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Taking Stock With Potato Chips

Anyone familiar with the story of Willy Wonka recognizes the fury that can be generated by a good promotional campaign.

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Let’s Chat About AI

Even if you successfully get something intelligible from artificial intelligence writing your content, it’s sure to take on a certain sameness over time.

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