Marketing Wizards Alliance
Top Marketing Speaker Says New Media Not Nirvana For Marketers…
The new media are often an Emperor without any clothes, failing to deliver on their big promise to generate sales, revenues and profits. Most often they are driving traffic to websites at best. Their performance is on par with traditional media but people are jumping on-board like crazed cats, despite the lack of documented success. What should you do?
Marketing Speaker Asks What Makes Your Different (Video)
How to differentiate yourself in the marketplace is one of the age-old marketing conundrums. The principle of the Unique Purchase Appeal is the most powerful marketing principle on the planet. It’s also the most important…
Marketing Speaker Asks… What Do You Do & How Are You Different?
What do you do and how are you different? These are the 2 most fundamental questions anyone is likely to want to know about your business. So why do so few business people have prepared answers for them. In fact virtually every business selling situation is absolutely predictable. It makes sense to have prepared answers built into your presentations and at the ready when questions are asked or objections are raised.
Marketing Speaker Proclaims Historical First… The Death of a Medium
The Yellow Pages are dead. Not dying. Dead. They’re a medium whose time has past. Time to get out and dedicate your marketing dollars elsewhere… specifically to local SEO!
Be True To Your Numbers For a Prosperous 2010
2010 can be your most prosperous year ever, if you commit to sales and selling, and if you’re true to the key performance indicators that are necessary to track and meet to reach your revenue goals.
Shift to the Paradigm of “Attract & Accept”
If you’re involved in selling anything you probably think in terms of Prospecting & Sales. Might you find it more empowering and less stressful to think in terms of attracting and accepting? Attracting prospects and accepting new customers, clients for patients. In part 1 of this series of posts, Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman presents his rationale for the new paragdigm.
The End of the Branding Era
Hail the end of an era. A bad era at that, in my humble opinion. Hail the end of the “branding era.”
I’m not saying it’s the end of brands. There will never be an end to brands. But this notion of “branding” has got to go. And it is going quickly… although this is probably [...]
Crashing a Focus Group
Yes, it’s true. I crashed a focus group the other night. I say “crashed” because they typically don’t let people who work in the marketing business to participate in focus groups. Not that we’re any more or less typical than the average guy. But we might be counted on to skew the results by talking [...]
Happy Birthday Little Recession…
Hooray! Happy birthday to the recession! We’ve recently passed the one-year mark since the official crash and resultant “little” recession. How did you celebrate?
Actually, it hasn’t been just a little recession, has it? It has been, and continues to be, a big recession. A devastating one for many people. Unemployment at higher levels than it [...]
Recession Conference Call Recording
Below is the recording from our recent conference call, “How to Recession-Proof Your Business in 90-Days or Less.” Enjoy!
(If you want to download the file directly, here it is.)
