Sales and Marketing

3 Ways to Get Your Product in Stores and in Front of Buyers

Does your small business sell a product or service that needs to get in front of a larger audience, or find its way into more stores? Maybe you’re trying to sell it online right now,…

The Gratitude Tool That Works Every Time

Long before the rise of email and social media I was extolling the virtues and value of saying “thank you” with handwritten notes. While certainly not an original idea (whose Mom didn’t make them write…

Introducing Your SEO Team to the Party

SEO (search engine optimization) is like finding, inviting and pointing users to your party. Once your guests show up, click around, and mingle, CRO (conversion rate optimization) is figuring out why they aren’t having a…

Consumer Reviews: The Only Currency

Consumer reviews are easier to make and access than ever before. There was a time when you actually had to talk to someone, or talk to someone who talked to someone else who was willing…

How to Attract Customers with Money to Spend

Attracting affluent customers is the dream of any business. Everybody wants to have rich clients, but not everybody does. You can’t attract wealthy clients with the same communication, offers and approach that you use for…

Bad Selling Fundamentals = Bad Social Selling

Social Selling is the “Easy Button” for every sales person’s dreams of making quota. At least if you believe 75% of what’s written about Social Selling, all you have to do is leverage LinkedIn, Facebook,…

Get People to Open Your Email with These 5 Clever Tips

Take a look at your inbox. How many emails are just there, unopened? I bet some may have been there for ages yet you never bothered to open them. And so the question: What makes…

Leveraging the Power of Converged Media

I think the idea of leveraging the power of converged media is both an old and a new idea. Media has changed (to say the least) but the idea of a media mix is hardly…

What the Real Estate Industry Should Know About Millennials

Millennials are a group that people love to complain about. They spend too much time on their phones. They take too many selfies. They are destroying the economy with their ridesharing and room sharing. They…

What Small Business Can Learn from the Star Wars Marketing Blitz

It almost seems unfair, doesn’t? I’m talking about the Disney-Lucasfilm connection and therefore also the Star Wars franchise. But instead of sitting here wallowing in envy of this super heavyweight marketing marriage, let’s look at…

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