Archive for January, 2010

What Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Taught Me About Small Business Coaching

What Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Taught Me About Small Business Coaching

I decided to write this post in English and not Canadian:) I read the Royal Canadian Police train certain men to specialize in anti-counterfeiting work. This training is unique because the trainee will never see a counterfeit bill. The thought process is there is only one genuine type of twenty dollar bill that exists. The [...]

Google Search: The Top 10 Small Business Stories for 2009

Google Search: The Top 10 Small Business Stories for 2009

One of my Google keyword alerts is Small Business Stories and every day I receive updates of small business stories. I don’t have to walk outside my front door in that old and too small bathrobe–it arrives in my email inbox and requires no embarrassing neighbor evasion to retrieve it’s content. One link is Business [...]

Are You Denying Certain Clients the Opportunity to Sacrificially Give You Money?

Are You Denying Certain Clients the Opportunity to Sacrificially Give You Money?

What would you have done if you were me? A little over a year ago I received a phone call from a lady outside of Seattle, Washington sharing that she always dreamed of starting her own business. Before I could ask any questions, she told me she decided to call us because she heard we [...]

Wednesday Strategic Marketing Dump

Wednesday Strategic Marketing Dump

Check out brilliant Love Jingles.com calendar & sliding price scale strategy for personalized company jingles. Podcast with them can be listened to here. Upcoming Marketing Stories podcast for January include Shelly Kramer, Steve Woodruff, Thomas Clifford, Jessica Kim, and Michael Bungay Stanier. Trying to convert or change someone’s mind about your products/services is a horrible [...]

Marketing Stories Podcast + Love Jingles.com

Marketing Stories Podcast + Love Jingles.com

Have you ever wanted a talented creative team to produce a memorable brand video for your company? Love Jingles.com, a Swedish, creative group can create your company video for you at an affordable price. The diversity of Love Jingle clients range from Yahoo to small marketing agencies like ours. Love, the inked creative conversationalist performing [...]

#1 Reason Why Most Small Business Owners SUCK in Marketing & Selling Services

#1 Reason Why Most Small Business Owners SUCK in Marketing & Selling Services

Here’s the big idea: Your marketing and sales success are linked to your self identity. The way you see your life shapes your life. Your sales + marketing and your self identity are irrevocably linked. So why don’t we know this? Are you a small business owner who sucks at marketing and selling your services? [...]

Your Company Video: Leave the Bloopers

Your Company Video: Leave the Bloopers

Are you creating company videos? If you are, then you know it can be awkward trying to be professional in front of camera. We often speak differently and use awkward hand and facial gestures compared to normal conversation away from a video camera. After all, we are entrepreneurs and small business owners, so we can’t [...]

Wednesday Strategic Marketing Dump

Wednesday Strategic Marketing Dump

Check out brilliant Love Jingles.com calendar & sliding price scale strategy for personalized company jingles. I’m conducting Marketing Stories podcast with them this Friday. Upcoming Marketing Stories podcast for January include Shelly Kramer, Steve Woodruff, Thomas Clifford, Jessica Kim, and Michael Bungay Stanier. The Bloggess is a naughty and amazing social media storyteller. I’m warning [...]

A Letter to Your 2009 Self

A Letter to Your 2009 Self

I tend to be a reflective thinker at the end and beginning of a year. It only lasts about two weeks before I resort to my shallow self and stick with marketing observations. But I do have a simple exercise I completed this year that I found really helpful. Surprisingly helpful, actually. I thought I’d [...]

A Checklist of 3 Passion Killers in 2010

A Checklist of 3 Passion Killers in 2010

Photo: Flickr, SteveKay January is the month for new resolutions and typically February to December is when we quit our resolutions. We seem to lose our passion and the cynics within and amongst us rejoice. I believe we have 3 really powerful passion killers: An unclear purpose. What is your purpose in life and how [...]

Listen to the Marketing Stories Podcast

Listen to the Marketing Stories Podcast

Marketing Stories Podcast… Contains discussions with small business marketing and social media change agents and thought leaders. It’s a marketing sociology + storytelling audio think tank and talk track. Get all current and future episodes delivered automatically to your iTunes podcast playlist by clicking on FREE subscribe via iTunes button below. Episode 1: Gary Vaynerchuk, [...]

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