The Loss of Jobs…

Everybody is mourning the loss of Steve Jobs. In this post, one of the world’s top Marketing Speakers, Jim Ackerman, explains why Jobs was the embodiment of industrial icon, Peter Drucker, and why Jim wants to be like Steve, when he grows up…

Marketing Speaker Says Blogs Can Build Your Business…

You too can use a blog to attract new customers, clients or patients, to convert prospects, and to keep your existing relationships loyal. Here is Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman’s take on BLOGS, along with some step-by-step advice on how do to a BLOG…

Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman Reveals THE Key Marketing Secret…

In this one-minute video, Marketing Speaker, Marketing Coach, Advertising Speaker and over all Marketing Guru, Jim Ackerman goes beyond just marketing to reveal one of life’s most important laws of achievement. But he doesn’t stop there. He follows it up with a very brief, yet powerful, step-by-step process you can put to work in your business and your life TODAY, to achieve anything you want to accomplish, in any field of endeavor.

Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman, critiques BMW Video/Super Bowl Ad Effort

Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman follows up on his last post about BMW’s showroom ad, then goes on to discuss their Super Bowl Ad, this year’s over all crop of Super Bowl ads and the general dismaying expenditures of hard-earned company funds to have gratuitous, non-selling ads in this important exposure time. What is the matter with these people!

Marketing Speaker Releases Episode 2 of GoodBadnUgly Channel

Episode #2 of the GoodBadnUglyAds Channel on YouTube scrutinizes a direct mail piece from LensCrafters, and invites you to comment on another piece, in advance of the next episode. For those looking for a marketing expert, you have access to the comments of everyone who critiques these pieces. And you’ll find the nuances of what makes this piece good, bad or ugly, both enlightening and useful in your own sales, marketing and advertising efforts.

Marketing Speaker Says Uncertainty Causes Uncertainty

Marketing and Advertising Speaker, Jim Ackerman revisits an article he wrote in August of ‘09, bemoaning the uncertainty imposed on the marketplace by political paralysis. If you’re a business person looking to grow your business, these are very tough times, and recent developements haven’t helped. There is still far too much uncertainty in the marketplace to pull us out of the recession.

Marketing Speaker Jim Ackerman Shares a Seminal Business Experience

The experience I had visiting Horizon Services in Wilmington DE, has changed my business and my life. Exec VP Mark Aitken doesn’t use the standard HVAC business for his model. He is patterning his business after the best that the world has to offer. No wonder he has one of the most successful HVAC companies in the country, with revenues above $35 million. And that’s how he can give hundreds of thousands in goods, services and sponsorships back to the community each year. There are lessons in this story for all of us. Not just marketing lessons… business lessons… life lessons.

Marketing Speaker, Jim Ackerman says Speed Is Of The Essence

The Universe Likes Speed… And So Do Prospects
When God told Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, the scriptures record… “And Abraham rose up early in the morning… and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.”
Interesting to note that there was no delay on the part of Abraham. He didn’t [...]

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…

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.