Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! It’s not always clear that the organizations that call for innovation actually want it. In this episode of Marketing Smarts, professor and author Dave Owens discusses the constraints that hamper creative thinking—and kill innovation. A few years back, I was […]
People staring down at a mobile device is now much more the norm than people looking around the room for someone to talk to at an event. As addicting as mobile phones can be, you won’t grow your network or your business unless you pay attention to what’s happening right now, right where you are.
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! “During major life changes, our habits are up for grabs,” Charles Duhigg told me during this week’s episode of Marketing Smarts. (If you’d like to just go ahead and listen to the episode, skip to the bottom!) One such life
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! For several years now I’ve heard the term “social business” bandied about; and, to be honest, I never really thought about what the phrase meant. If I had been pressed, I would have said that “social businesses” are businesses built
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! Like many of us, I’ve led brainstorming sessions and adhered to the traditional “rules” of brainstorming: “Don’t criticize anyone’s ideas” and “Get as many ideas up there as possible and worry about quality later.” The problem is that although this
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! “Shifting one’s focus from getting to giving—and when we say ‘giving’, we mean constantly and consistently providing value to others—is not only a nice way to live life, it’s a very financially profitable way as well.” That, in the words
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! Are we living in the Matrix, or just working in it? This week’s guest on Marketing Smarts, Maddie Grant, would tell you, straight up: It’s the latter. To help make people aware of their situation and, more important, show them
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! In a post published last December on Convince & Convert, this week’s guest on Marketing Smarts, Jay Baer, wrote, “Social is foremost a philosophy, not a set of behaviors.” Of course, when you read that sentence and consider the title
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! “Most companies are either under-qualifying or over-qualifying leads,” PointClear‘s Dan McDade told me during this week’s episode of the Marketing Smarts podcast (you can listen to it above). On the under-qualification front, the culprit tends to be the “cost-per-lead” mentality.
Sign up to gain access to thousands of marketing resources! Don’t worry … It’s FREE! The final stop of the MarketingProfs Smart Marketers Tour was Boston, MA (well, technically, Lincoln, MA) on July 10. We held the event at the beautiful deCordova Museum, and it was our best-attended (though the show we did in Minneapolis
