Why do people wear jewelry? Sure, to look beautiful. But what are they secretly looking for? Compliments. They want comments about it. Well my friend Dylan Toymaker of www.crystalcradle.ca makes jewelry that gets comments. Each piece is made out of brass wiring and recycled computer parts around a central crystal. They’re really stunning and almost […]
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Ignore the drunk young fellow photobombing this picture. Notice what I’m wearing. It’s a kilt made by www.Utilikilts.com It’s a plain black, canvass kilt. It gets lots of comments. In a way the kilt is the pass on material. It generates the conversation and their website is easy enough to remember and every time someone
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I’ve never tried this one but I bet it would work great. Have you ever been at someone’s house and seen a painting or piece of art that really floored you? My friend Jordanna Rachinsky’s paintings blow me away. You probably have your own favourite local artist. Or a piece of art you saw that
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There are really two goals of WOM marketing. One is to get prospects and their friends talking about you. The second is to get current clients referring business to you. In the long term, both are probably important. The following tactics offer a mix of both – some geared more towards raising the buzz –
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People love to spread the word about things they love (and hate). It’s like a gift of ‘information’ they get to give people. They get to be a ‘hook up’ of good things. They get help someone. It’s important to create excuses for people to talk about what YOU do and mechanisms that facilitate that
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Not convinced about Word of Mouth? Here are some more things to consider . . . Andy Sernovitz, in his book Word of Mouth Marketing puts it this way . . . “Good marketing is easy. One of the most important things I’ve learned is that word of mouth marketing can be so easy and
“If you build it they will come.” Those are probably the most destructive words an entrepreneur can utter – aside from, “I already know that.” and “the government can pry those taxes from my cold dead hands!” Sure, if you offer a great quality product and service word will spread. Especially if you’re at the
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Hubs can help you spread the word. Why? They’re well connected and well respected. They’re like the one’s and two’s in the photo to the right. Their circles overlap a lot of other people’s circles. An endorsement from a ‘1’ can mean more to you than an endorsement from ten ‘4’s. Placement in the ‘right’
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I used to be really confused about how to tell people who my niche was. It used to take me a whole page to do it. Now I can do it in a sentence. Now, in a single sentence, people I’m talking to know if they’re in my niche or if they know anyone who
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There’s something that’s often overlooked in marketing that my pal Mark Silver brought to my attention in a conversation we had a while back. He also wrote about it on his blog here. This is something that is very much at the heart of the notion I’ve been working with a lot lately on ‘becoming
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