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Business Strategy Trifecta

Trying to come up with a marketing and business growth strategy for 2022? Or maybe just tomorrow?

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The Rings of Attention

The only way to reach the unknown, the unexpected, is to get out of the safe zone and explore the unsafe space.

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How to Make the Metaverse Real

You likely have something real to share with your customers. Do it. Share it. Make it real. Ensure they can experience it. Let them smell it. Sense it.

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The Future of Virtual Events

According to research from Contently, 58% of companies said that virtual events produced the best results of any marketing strategy for B2B companies.

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The Truth About Loyalty

I, as a consumer or employee, may like your product or service and try it out a few times, but you must earn my loyalty. You must earn my trust.

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What is the Metaverse and Why it Matters

Many believe the future of the web — what some are calling Web 4.0 — to be a shared online 3D virtual space.

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Two Key Questions for Marketers to Answer

There are two tactics in marketing and it impacts what your message is and which question you are answering.

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The Magic of Half-Baked Ideas

Half-baked cakes = bad.

Half-baked ideas = amazing.

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Copywriting 101: Get to the Point

Advice for business communicators: get to the point of all your writing. Do not use 10 words when five will do.

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The Four S’ of Marketing

While the four P’s of Marketing still matter and help with building strategies, these new four help with building the actual plans to achieve your goals.

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Listen To Your Audience; They Speak The Truth

I will never forget sitting in a business strategy meeting years ago and watching (with sullen amazement while still not surprised) to the C-Suite blithely ignore incontrovertible evidence of the public’s negative view of us and our product.

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The Counter-Weight of Engaging Content

There are big marketing campaigns and there are slow-drip with big long-term impacts.

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What your marketing strategy is missing

Marketing can get boring. All too often, it becomes all about the product and how great it is; and never enough about what the product can add to your life.

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One of the Best Business Strategies to Follow

Want the secret to one of the best business strategies around? Always strive to put yourself out of business.

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Stay True To Your Word

Nothing destroys team morale and someone’s belief in the team more than a manager who isn’t true to their word.

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Give Your Teams Permission to Fail

The things that good managers understand is that it is in failing that you learn.

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Silence is Golden

A good manager is quiet. They listen. They listen. And they listen some more. Be a good manager.

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BAI: Can banks compete in a digital-lending world?

Business leaders got together to discuss the future of banking and what consumers are looking for post-pandemic.

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Can You Be a Mediocre Manager?

In my 20-year career, I have had the great fortune of having some incredible managers. I have also experienced some of the worse business has had to offer.

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Good Leadership = Acting Mission First

When you make decisions and do things that don't connect with the mission, it confuses the team and leads to misdirection and unfocused and uncommitted teams.

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