As I get ready for my next Point of View Lab, I’ve been reflecting on some recent examples I’ve been uncovering with clients. Over the past few months, I’ve been working with a lot of people around their point of view and I keep being amazed at the power that this has in our marketing. Whereas […]
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Your clients want to know they’re in good hands with you. I’m thinking about this because I just came back from a mediocre massage. The style wasn’t one I liked. A bit too abrupt. Not as flowing and as intuitive as I like. But that wasn’t the big issue. In fact, there were no big
The purpose of marketing is to make promises. The purpose of your business is to keep them. Most traditional cultures in the world are overflowing with proverbs around the importance of keeping your word and doing what you say you will do. It’s certainly true for my own Scottish and Celtic ancestry. “If I break
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Here’s the truth: most of marketing your business is boring. It’s the tedious making lists of people to contact. It’s pre-writing emails. It’s scheduling things out and making plans. It’s rewriting headlines. It’s editing eBooks (dear God… the editing). It’s doing all of those things when, frankly, you’d rather be having beers with friends or
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“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.” – Carl Jung Sometimes in business things go wrong. Sometimes it’s because we are out of integrity. Sometimes it’s because others are. Sometimes, everyone’s in integrity and it still falls apart. However it happens, there’s
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I caught a cab the other day. Actually a TappCar (Edmonton’s response to the terrible taxi cab industry and Uber). They have priced themselves in between the two. I could give you ten reasons why I love them. But there are always issues. I was heading to visit my grandmother in the hospital. “I want
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Born in the Autumn of 1904, Alberta Christine Williams returned to her home in Georgia from teachers college and taught for a short period before getting married to her husband on Thanksgiving Day in 1926. At the time female teachers were not allowed to work while they were married, so Alberta had to give up her job. However,
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Business is like a staircase which it’s best not to skip any steps. One of the things that can put us squarely and repeatedly into what I call The Meantime is not understanding what stage of business we are at (or even that there are different stages of business). A classic blunder is for people to
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Clarity is everything in marketing. A while ago I wrote a blog post about the importance of developing a clear platform. Your platform is what you’re known for. It’s another way of talking about ‘brand‘. It’s the heart of slow marketing (but also the basis of fast marketing). The challenge that I lay out in
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How would you like it if clients loved you so much they drove three or four hours to see you? They will if it feels like it’s a fit. I just got this note from a client of mine, Tim Emerson. And it reminded me of the importance of the slow marketing approach and how
mini case study – slow marketing really works Read More