TRUST REALLY MATTERS IN OUR DIGITAL AGE
During my career, I have been fortunate enough to work on amazing brands worldwide like: E*Trade, Weight Watchers, Coca-Cola, P&G, Unilever, Nestles, IBM, etc. – so I know that continuing to build and maintain strong brands MUST be a strategic priority.YES, character, ability, strength and truth are the keys to …
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HOW YOU CAN INCREASE LEADS AND CLOSE DEALS FASTER WITH SOCIAL SELLING
Social media marketing is no longer just a great place to connect with old college friends, family members or even meet new friends. It has become a critical platform for brands and clients to engage their audiences and reach more relevant customers. Importantly, from my experience for brands today’s brands …
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MAKING SENSE OF HASHTAGS ON LINKEDIN
Over the past two years, LinkedIn has been actively encouraging users to post and search for specific hashtags using the Your Communities section on the left-hand side of their LinkedIn feed. This means, if you can see the ‘Your Communities’ box on your home page, you have the ability to manage hashtags and conversations much more …
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USING LINKEDIN TO CONNECT WITH YOUR COMPETITORS IS STRATEGIC & SMART
For the past decade on LinkedIn, one of the biggest questions I get asked when training my Advertising & Digital sales and new business teams is, “Should I connect with my competitors?” My typical response is, do you agree with the old SUN TZU adage ‘keep your friends close and …
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State Of The Union 2019 – Full Transcript
PRESIDENT Donald J Trump delivered his second State of the Union address Tuesday February 5, 2019 marking his first under a divided government in 2019. VIDEO of LIVE Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpf1IYU0poY&feature=youtu.be Following is the amazing speech that President Trump made to a packed joint session of Congress. As, Sarah Sanders stated before the …
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Moving from Awareness to Loyalty for maximum impact
Having grown up in a family of Direct Marketers while in New York in the 1970s/80s, I have always found that the keys to marketing and advertising success always included an integrated marketing approach across all ‘touchpoints’ available. (digital and physical) In the early days, up until the early 1990’s …
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HOW TO INCREASE TRUST, RETENTION AND GENERATE LOYALTY
For almost three decades now, I have watched, developed and helped to strategically plan numerous loyalty and membership programs. BUT, today they are even more sophisticated, refined and desirable than ever before. With the acceleration of social media, technology and telecommunications in general – the traditional models once used for …
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WHY DOES PURPOSE MATTER?
I have always believed that Agencies, Marketers and Entrepreneurs can enhance their odds of winning new business exponentially by ‘profiling’ their new business prospects and leaders correctly and with the best ‘positioning’ too. All members of an Agency’s new business team need to understand how to identify different profiles, how …
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Lessons from The Bay Way
With all the recent breaking news, stories and reports about: Facebook, Uber, Amazon, Google, YouTube, Alphabet, Twitter, Theranos, AirBNB, and Salesforce, I have often thought about all the massive changes in the marketplace in which we all operate these days. I have witnessed and experienced since I was involved in …
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WHAT ARE YOUR BIGGEST NEW BUSINESS PAIN POINTS?
When I ask most marketers, entrepreneurs and Ad Agencies anywhere in the US or worldwide, I am commonly told these primary issues for winning more New Business and Growth today: Finding new clients and brands (overwhelmingly the single biggest complaint) Not enough focus on business development, planning and staffing properly …
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