Make Marketing Part of Your Business Routine

When I get into the office each day, I have a routine:

Download email off the server
Check phone messages
Double check appointments for the day & the next day
Look at my to-do list from the night before
Say “hi” to everyone  & if the weather’s not so good - hang up my coat.
Get a cup of coffee.

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PR & Marketing: Chicken or the Egg?

Is PR a function of marketing?  Or is it a separate function all on it’s own?  Or is marketing a function of PR?
This is a subject that I struggled with, deeply, for about a year or two after I graduated from Kent State.  You smile. Okay, I was naive.  At the time, I believed back then […]

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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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Why Use the Yellow Pages for Your Marketing? Here are 3 Good Reasons

The Yellow Pages have become dinosaurs.  Just look at the pile of them that sit by the back door of my office building.  They’ve been sitting there for 2 months and no one in any of the businesses has even bothered to pick up their office copy.  
More and more consumer and business buyers alike search […]

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Word of Mouth is the Best Marketing

Beyond all the fancy marketing techniques of SEO and Web2.0, all the competitive analysis and regression plotting — isn’t the best marketing of all when a friend tells you to try something because they liked it and thought you might too?
Two different posts inspired me to write about “word of mouth” this morning:

 Why Conversational SEO […]

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