Episode 710 – A Business Ready To Sell… Is A GREAT Business with Mark SA Smith

Mark S. A. Smith designs and implements customer acquisition systems that find and recruit customers for disruptive products. He speaks at entrepreneurial events delivering pragmatic ideas to grow and succeed. He is an electrical engineer, media technologist, computer programmer, hardware salesman, software marketer, and business owner who works with leaders who must develop the best…

Episode 707 – What Is The Secret B2b Marketing Formula? (Math is Hard – Success Is Not)

There is a secret in the banking industry – Savings accounts with restrictions make people save more… 80% more. There are two things that work, setting a minimum total or a set amount of time before the saver can make a withdrawal. Those are known as CDs or commitment devices. There are many reasons why…

Episode 701 – What Do Your Customers REALLY Want? Advertising, Marketing, and Relationship Marketing?

Website designer working with the new computer interface as design concept Don’t you just hate all the junk mail you get ( and have to delete) every day? You never signed up for that list? You have no interest in that product or service because it has NOTHING to do with YOUR business? So why…

Episode 699 – Are Your Marketing Systems Not Working? Stop Gambling & Start Winning

I am not sure if you have ever been inside a casino, but it’s noisy with lots of flashing lights. Those are usually the sights and sounds of slot machines all around you. Slots are a simple and very popular game where acasino pull of an arm (better know as One-Armed-Bandits), or the push of…

Episode 697 – How Utilizing Consumer Marketing Methods May Undermine Your Business Sales?

Did you know that Sears started as an entrepreneur who resold a batch of watches to railroad employees? He parlayed that into one of the biggest mail-order companies in the world. It was the Amazon of its time! Joseph Pulitzer funded the building of the Statue Of Liberty through citizen donations raised through his newspaper?…

Episode 695 – How Can The Right Business Tools Help You Solve Business Problems Better?

It’s enticing to find a Swiss Army Knife or suite of tools to manage our business and sales. Often we want to find an integration of a CRM, Email Marketing, Social Media, Project Manager, and more! I have taken a different approach. I have found the right single tool for my needs and find a…

Episode 693 – Leveraging LinkedIn To Grow Your B2b Business Through Social Networking

Many people think of LinkedIn as just another social media platform. I prefer to treat it as a Relationship Marketing tool that has one goal – let my perfect customers understand why I am here and how I can help them solve their problems. I teach a LinkedIn Course called TRIBE. It is based on…

Episode 691 – What Is Relationship Marketing? Amplify Your Marketing Messages

I was talking with a neighbor while walking my dog Layla. I was trying to explain what relationship marketing is and how social media plays into the mix. He felt that social media was censoring some materials? I tried to explain to him that social networks may censor some content but most of the time…

Episode 683 – Want To Improve Your Business? Here Is My Know-Like-Trust System!

There have been a lot of people associated with the terms KNOW, LIKE, & TRUST! It has been attributed to Mark Twain, Stephen Covey, and past Bacon Podcast Guests Bob Burg and Chris Brogan. But what does it mean in terms of you, your business, and your network? I a previous podcast, I mention Dunbar’s…

Episode 681 – Exercise Your Business – Get A Running Start To Deliver On Your Goals

What do running a business and running a 5K have in common? They both can feel like being on a treadmill, especially without having some Goals. I found some inspiration from a book I found on Blinkist by Haruki Murakami – “What I talk about When I talk about Running”. Haruki went from being an…