Brand yourself like your life depends on it
When I was in high school, a movement had just begun. It became known simply as desktop publishing. Innocuous enough, but it changed everything. It essentially felled the walls that separated the professional from the amateur, the have’s from the have-not’s. Sure, it didn’t change everyone’s skill level. To this day, there are a lot [...]
7 superior alternatives to Google Adwords
Seven is indeed a lucky number so here are seven tips on selling more, but with a twist. This one is from an unusual source. Tammy Kahn Fennell runs VintageRareStuff.com, a site devoted to selling antiques. Here’s what she says has worked for her when she needed to find ways that outperformed Google Adwords. Looks [...]
7 and-a-half tips to start social networking
1. Get on Twitter.
2. Try Twitter Advanced Search to plug in keywords that apply to your business, ideas and interests. (You can even get an RSS feed as new tweets come in with your chosen terms. Personally, I prefer Tweetdeck as it creates columns with your searches in a nice interface and keeps updating them [...]
There is gold in them there social media hills
Razorfish has data that shows the rush to profit from social media is working.
The big takeaway is that “those who discovered an application via a friend (aka, via a social connection) were almost four times more likely to download it. They were also more likely to spend money on the client site and spent much [...]
Bank advertising takes disaster head on
Get eaten alive, still earn interest
You wouldn’t expect armageddon to be a topic most banks would pick up on for an ad campaign. But with the help of YR Lima, Banco Financiero has stepped right into the fray and embraced total meltdown. Whether it’s from meteor strikes and dinosaurs, hurricanes and tsunamis, or alien invasion, [...]
How to think and act like a marketing leader
No long walks on the beach for leaders
Recently, a client asked what other companies are doing to differentiate their leadership and experience messaging beyond the usual “we’ve been in business for xx years, are an industry leader …”, etc. It’s a good question, as it’s easy to get trapped in your existing company rhetoric and [...]
