This pictorial masterpiece explains the two kinds of tools necessary to build your Brand. Your Personal Brand. First, you introduce your product or service to the market via your Trust Tools. To Build your Brand, personal networking is at the core, augmented with Speaking, Teaching and Writing. These all breed familiarity, expertise and credibility. As …
Living in Harmony: Your Website & Your Social
Have you noticed the war being waged over your website and social media in the branding and marketing arenas? Look over there — the traditional stuff is finally winning again. No, see over there. Cuz the digital folks have screwed things forever. Get your website gleaming. No. Use this new social app. This, that. The …
Are You An Upstanding Community Citizen?
How does one even attempt a discussion about being an Upstanding Community Citizen let alone make sure your marketing works for you? Let’s try! You know there are three legs to the BulletProof trifecta, right? Successful companies are passionate about their customers. Have wickedly simple processes. And are upstanding community citizens. This past seven …
Change Your Thinking for the Better
A crucial piece of our view on the world is our six-word phrase “Change Your Thinking For The Better”. There are many different situations that involve the need for a change of thinking within a business or a company: • The internal dysfunction can occur from thinking the same way for too long. • The …
Finding & Achieving The Totality Of Your Vision
My 19-year stint in the ad agency business was not without its share of sabbaticals. I worked for seven different agencies during that period. Sometimes I would change jobs within a few months. Other times it would take longer. Doug Fisher: Crazy Like A Fox Doug Fisher is a photographer. He is half native Canadian. …
Plan Your Upcoming Marketing Efforts
Lately, we have been working with a client and chatting with a few prospects, and the whole topic of planning your marketing efforts has been, well, a hot button. Then each of us received a cool infographic about a new product that has recently launched and that caused a lightbulb moment for one of us. …
Customers: The Thing Businesses Can’t Live Without
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The 10 Commandments Business of Communication
One of the key things I have learned from talking to both clients and people in the communications business over the years is that they believed that hardest thing to do is develop a methodology or personal business philosophy to help guide them on the long and winding road. A lot of these people tend …
Stay Stuck In The Past Or Prepare For The Future
When Charlene and I decided to create a business management partnership together we spent a lot of time talking about how we wanted that business to be seen. On the surface, when you put a highly experienced business analyst and a highly experienced marketing and communication person together, you end up somewhere in the spectrum …
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