The following is an excerpt taken from an interview I did with the brilliant Robert Middleton. A lot of my core marketing philosophy, I got from this man. This material will be compiled into a book called “Pay What You Want” in 2011. Robert: We’ll talk later about what you’re making now and how you […]
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The following is an excerpt taken from an interview I did with the brilliant Robert Middleton. A lot of my core marketing philosophy, I got from this man.Pay What You Want” in 2011. This material will be compiled into a book called “ Tad: It’s funny. I think it’s actually used a lot more than
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I was just at the downtown Edmonton Farmer’s Market. As I was walking past someone I overheard them say, “I’m the kind of person who walks all the way through the farmer’s market and then buy on the walk back.” It occurred to me that I’d just done the same thing. And it is a
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I just met with a therapist today for lunch. We were doing a consultation and it really reminded me of something . . . If you’re a therapist it can kind of seems like you’re screwed in the marketing department. After all, ethically, you can’t even ask people for a testimonials sometimes. You can’t really
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Safety is important in marketing. People need to feel safe to approach you. To take that first step. But if ALL they take is that first step then all your efforts are worthless. It can be easy to work at building a big ‘crowd of spectators’. But that’s different than building a ‘community of raving
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This is my friend Jimbo. He’s a street performer. Street performing can teach you a lot about magic. You seem them every summer. Juggling, riding unicycles, balancing on things, setting things on fire or doing magic. And people often say, ‘What amazing tricks!’ But they miss the point. The real trick is not that they
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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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