Episode 983 – Visual Impact – The Rights and Wrongs of Images In Marketing

One of my all-time favorite jokes is about babies… “How many babies does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “None – they neither have the cognitive or motor skills to perform such a task!” You could imagine a baby holding a lightbulb and trying to insert it into a lamp or socket. But if…

Episode 875 – Charging Your Content – Seeing The Light

I have a problem. Well, it’s more of an annoyance. We have RING cameras on the front and back of our house. In order to see the widest possible views, they had to be placed up high. The more the cameras are accessed when a delivery comes or when the dog and I are in…

Episode 809 – It Pays to Follow The Instructions and Sometimes You Have To Write Your Own

It’s been over 22 years since we built and bought our last home. Over that time, technology was whizzing along while our home and appliances lived in the early years of the 20th century. This was pre… Amazon, Google, Facebook, iPhone and so much more. Change is hard and wonderful at the same time. There…

Episode 642 – The Three Headed Marketing Success System

I often hear from companies after I explain my process, “We like what you have to say… but we are just going to hire a marketing person.” I ask in return “Which one?” They often don’t understand that marketing is a team sport. It takes multiple people with multiple skills such as  SEO, Web, Email,…

Episode 630 – The 5 Habits You Need To Adapt For a Successful New Year

If you stream TV and have Netflix, then you may have seen the mini-series “The Queens Gambit”. It a story about how an orphan girl became the queen of chess in the 1960s. In the series, Beth learns to play chess and at night while lying in bed, she would play out the moves in…

Episode 628 – Up On The Housetop Click, Click, Click – How a Website is like Building A House

If you have multiple parts of your business (wholesale, retail, and online), it makes sense to have multiple websites to serve each of your different audiences. I have this podcast site, one for my books (NotAboutU.com), one for my speaking business (BrianBasilico.com), one for my LinkedIn Consulting (LI4Sales.com), and others. Building each website is done…

Episode 530 – Foresight is 2020 – Use Technology To Create Memories and Pay It Forward

During the holidays, chances are you are spending time with family and friends. You have an opportunity… to create memory assets. There are many opportunities to capture moments, textures, images, video, and audio that can be used throughout the year and into the future. Phones today often have better technology than video and photo equipment…

Episode 526 – Foresight is 2020 – What You Need To Do NOW To Get Your Website Ready

It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. At this time at the end of the year, it’s kind of…

Episode 493 – Makin’ Bacon And Other Insights About Creating And Using Great Graphics with Jackson Price

Jackson Price is a senior Creative Director with over 25 years of experience across a variety of business sectors. Clients include the Fortune 100, ad agencies, design studios, universities, government agencies, small businesses, and professional athletes. He is currently the Director of Creative Services for Iowa State University Athletics. . Jacson believes great design marries…

Episode 492 – When It Comes To Social Graphics… It’s Hip To Be Square!

In 1986, “Back To The Future II” predicted what life would be like in 2015. They got a lot of things right, and some of them wrong, but it also missed a few KEY things while predicting the future… The Internet Mobile Phones People Would Still Be Reading Newspapers! The theme song was written by…