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Recent Posts
Treating job applicants like potential customers.
An out-of-work marketing executive in Minnesota recently made an emotional — and somewhat threatening — plea for HR departments to show more humanity towards job-hunters. In “How About a Humane Human Resources?” author Pat Daw...
The company you keep: is it helping or hurting your personal brand?
Remember that well-worn expression about being judged by the company you keep? Mike Myatt, “chief strategy officer” with N2growth, says that executives need to be cautious about the company they keep lest their personal brands, i.e. thei...
More than a paycheck: offering employees a vision.
A paycheck might keep a person on the job physically, but it will not keep a person on the job emotionally. Successful companies offer their employees a vision worth following. Employees need to know how their work fits in the broader scheme of busin...
Social Media Experts Sing If I Had A Hammer.
You LOVE hammers! You SELL hammers! You know in your gut that hammers are cool, hip, and can change the world if given something to bang. Everywhere you go you sell hammers. You want to sell me a hammer. You believe fervently, passionately that my s...
Breaking News: Insulting Your Target Market Is Not Good Strategy.
In our enthusiasm to convert prospects to our brand of marketing religion, there is a temptation to cross the dividing line between simply uncovering customer needs, an essential part of the marketing process, to implying that the prospect is being w...
Making Intangible Benefits Real.
This presentation by Rory Sutherland humorously makes the case for selling the intangible benefits of our products and services. Making the sale often depends on our ability to communicate product or brand benefits that transcend product utility. As...

