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4 Marketing Improvements To Make Now

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Did you run into any friends this weekend?  You might have and I’m willing to wager that the conversation wasn’t solely about their lives and how great they are.  It’s like the joke where someone is chattering about themselves for 10 minutes and then says “but enough about ME! How do YOU like my watch?”  No one would really do that, right?

Wrong.  Seinfeld built a TV series about that sort of self-centered mindset and lots of marketers continue to behave that way every day.  So in no particular order, here are a few things they might think about doing differently. Continue reading

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Leading Yourself

We chose leaders in government for the next couple of years yesterday.  It’s an interesting process in our country, to say the least.  We could probably have a really energized debate about what’s good and bad in the folks who emerged from the election as winners and losers, but regardless of that they now have to lead and not, as our President remarked on the campaign trail, stand around drinking a Slurpee, no matter which side they’re on.  Which of course puts business thinking into my head. Continue reading

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Sanity

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I’m not sure if you were one of the 250,000 or so folks who went to Jon Stewart‘s rally over the weekend or if you, like me, watched any of it on TV. For the most part, I thought it was great satire and I mean that in the purest sense of holding up a mirror to individuals or society as a whole so we can see the ridiculous nature of some of what goes on.
As you guys know, we don’t do politics here, but since Election Day is upon us, I think we can take a few of Stewart’s points, which he intended for politicians and the media, and apply them to business. Continue reading

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