B-B Marketing — Keeping Your Sales Literature Up-to-Date

Yesterday was spent updating sales literature for a client.  It was both easy and hard at the same time.
What made it easy was we have a format - logo, product category, name, markets served, benefits, photo, specs, contact information.  It helps to support the branding for the company.  A brand, even for a B-B focused […]

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Finding The Keys to Entrepreneurial Success

This morning in Akron, I had the pleasure to hear a presentation by Larry Farrell the Guru of Entrepreneurship.  He has a long list of accolades but the one that caught my attention is that he has one of the top 10 bestselling books in China this year: Getting Entrepreneurial. 
 His talk really hit home for me. As […]

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Launch Strategy for Marketing Your Book

Are you writing and marketing your book?
Those who haven’t written a book often think that the writing is the hard part. Those who have written a book know that the work just begins when the book is finally published. 
 Authors: take heed of the launch strategy of  Tammy Lenski.  Tammy really understands the power of connectedness and community in […]

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Build it… and they will buy? NOT.

Derrick Daye of the Branding Strategy Insider really hits the nail on the head in his post Of Brand Marketing and New Business Ventures . So often a new business has a manufacturing focus (what can we make) as opposed to a marketing focus (what do people want/need). Is it any wonder that the business […]

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Faster Communication? A new Tool to Review Marketing Projects

Of all the stages of a marketing program, the final reviewing phases can be some of the most frustrating, due to communication challenges.
This past week I was working with a company outside of Boston on a direct mail program we are executing for their marketing plan. Postcard series, mailing lists & sell sheets. This week […]

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