Here's an entertaining video, well-crafted to be virally passed along. Your designer might already have sent it to you. It was passed along to me, I snickered, and sent it to some fellow marketing geeks in my office. You can study it as a useful example of how to make a video that will get passed along, and it does well at that. But I thought it … [Read more...] about Is Your Good Taste Costing You Customers?
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The Absence of Fear is not Courage. The Absence of Fear is Mental Illness.
I am awfully pleased for my friend Naomi, who made the front page of Digg yesterday with this post: What to do when you're scared sh*tless. (Sphinn censored the name by dropping the last word, respectful asterisk and all. How sad is that? It's also a study in what differentiates a great headline from a mediocre one.) For those who will read … [Read more...] about The Absence of Fear is not Courage. The Absence of Fear is Mental Illness.
Relationship Marketing Series #1: Create a Human Connection
This is the first in an occasional (in other words, whenever I get a wild hair) series on the essentials of relationship marketing. Relationship marketing focuses on nurturing ongoing relationships with customers, instead of strip-mining prospects for one-time purchases. There have been dozens of riffs on this over the last 15 years or so, with … [Read more...] about Relationship Marketing Series #1: Create a Human Connection
Beyond Google page one–10 ways to maximize your click-through
A lot of folks are obsessed with making page one of Google. People who think Twitter is what birds do want to be number one on Google. I have a friend who does marketing for small law firms, some of whom have been known to ask her to get them on page one of Google even though they have no Web site. She is very nice about it. Depending on … [Read more...] about Beyond Google page one–10 ways to maximize your click-through