One day, I plan to write an eBook called Vibe: The Hidden Mechanics of Why People Buy. It would center around the content in this blog post and the message that is present in these two quotes: “We have each had the experience of others reacting to us; often there seems to be no logic …
The Vibe Chart: Collapsing, Posturing and Composure Read More
I hosted a men’s circle earlier this year and a young man said something brilliant: be a flower, not a butterfly net. It reminds me of something I heard colleagues say for years: be a lighthouse, not a searchlight. Butterflies run away from nets. People run away from searchlights. Of course, it’s dangerous to …
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 …
The other day, I was wondering about why there was such an appeal to marketing courses that taught secrets of unconscious persuasion, stealth tactics, invisible influence, secret closes, ninja strategies etc. The implication of all of these approaches was that no one would notice what you were doing. No one would notice that you were …
Marketing Feels Bad Because We’re Ashamed Not Because It’s Shameful Read More
I’ve been working on a new eBook called Point of View Marketing: The Subtle, Underestimated & Credibility-Building Power of Articulating Why You Do What You Do the Way You Do It. I’m really proud of how it’s coming along. I think it will be done by the end of the month. So I thought I’d sit down …
Sales letters get a bad rap. They are often avoided by good-hearted people because they have the appearance of bad things they’ve seen and with which they never want to be associated. But here’s my take: a sales letter is actually an integrity check. It’s a dojo. Sales letters force clarity on what might otherwise remain …
Authenticity is not a goal. It’s a byproduct of something else. It’s not something you can put on like a coat. It’s not a strategy. It’s not something you can posture at. It’s not even the goal. It’s the result of something else that you’re doing. There’s the old story of the archer who misses …
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, …
I just had an 80 minute google hangout with a dear friend and colleague in the UK who’s known as Simon on the Sofa. We spoke about how marketing often feels ‘off’ even, sometime especially, when it’s called ‘conscious marketing’. We spoke about how dating and marketing were intimately connected and about the importance …
80 Minute Video: Conversation on Transparent Marketing with Simon on the Sofa Read More
