Posts Tagged ‘Drew McLellan’
Why Your Employees Should Be Your #1 Audience
When people think about marketing, they typically think about external marketing—marketing tactics aimed at potential customers. But no business can afford to forget to actively and regularly market to its own employees. In fact, your employees should be your #1 audience.
Read More In Marketing, You Eat the Pie One Bite at a Time
No doubt there’s been all kinds of studies done on why we both set and violate our new year’s resolutions each January. I think one of the reasons why resolutions are so seductive and yet so elusive is because they’re too ambitious.
Read More Are You Selling What Your Customers Want to Buy?
All too often, I see businesses advertising their wares…but from their own perspective. They talk about their expertise and what they DO or MAKE, thinking that’s what people are buying. Of course, that’s not what they’re buying at all.
Read More Are You Feeling a Little Stressed?
Stress is a natural part of life—but as a culture, we’ve upped the ante and are entering an era of super stress. The consequences of that super stress are showing up in every aspect of daily life and come with incredible costs as we wrestle with the consequences.
Read More Big Data Delivers Customized Experiences or It’s Just Noise
If there is one phrase we couldn’t seem to get enough of this year — that phrase is big data. Suffice it to say, we are leaving quite a trail.
Read More Care About Them, Not Us
We recently bought an ad for a client and the ad rep suggested we make a big deal out of the fact that our client has been in business for 130 years. I politely told her that we definitely were not going to do that.
Read More Storytelling, Storytelling, and More Storytelling
Seems like every marketing book, blog and study is talking about how we should be using storytelling as a marketing technique. I couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately, I think most attempts fall short.
Read More Are You Social Sharing to Your Best Advantage?
If your company is involved in social media, one of the elements you worry about is if you’re sharing in the best way. You want to maximize your company’s exposure by choosing the best social networks, the best way to communicate and even the best time of day.
Read More Plant Some Marketing Seeds
By the time a farmer is harvesting his crop, he’s already well into the planning of his upcoming planting season. We marketing types could learn a lot from those farmers.
Read More How Cause Marketing Can Be Smart Marketing
In the last 20 years, the term “cause marketing” came onto the horizon. The whole idea was this: Many companies donate their time, their talent and their money to various charities, but it was done without anyone knowing about it or the company gaining any additional value from being a good citizen.
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