Episode 893 – How Can A Junk Drawer Help You Build A Healthy Business?

We all have one. Some of us have multiple. You may even have one in every room of your house. It’s the junk drawer. True Story: I was looking for a piece of wood in my garage to prop up my desk for a project. It was not until I took and posted the image…

Episode 891 – The Devil Is In The Details… In The Data

Last week I attended a CMO panel discussion sponsored by the AMA Triangle. It included CMOs from SAS, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and a couple of other independent medium to small-business CMOs. One of those people stood out to me. His name is Frank Pollock and he’s currently the CMO of a couple of start-ups, but he…

Episode 890 – Best Of – Email Systems Follow-Up and Sequencing with Luis Xavier

Luis Help Businesses Engage Prospects And Build An Army Of Loyal Customers Using Automated systems that increase engagement and create a constant flood of sales. Engage with your Leads, Increase Sales Conversions and Manage your Leads Effectively. At Sales Studios, we have a proven structured system to drive your audience to view your offers. A…

Episode 867 – Passengers… Prepare For Landing – Guiding Website Visitors to Their Destination

I am always amazed that 80 tons of people, luggage, metal, and fuel, lifts you up in the air and flies you 1000 miles in about 2 hours, and it’s almost 1000 times safer than driving in a car. On top of that, most people don’t give a second thought about how complex our air…

Episode 864 – Best Of – How To Scale Your Business Through An Ecosystem with Steven Hoffman

Steve Hoffman (Captain Hoff) is the Chairman & CEO of Founders Space, a global innovation hub for entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors, with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Hoffman is also a venture investor, founder of three venture-backed and two bootstrapped startups, and author of several award-winning books. These include “Make Elephants Fly” (Hachette), “Surviving…

Episode 863 – How Can a Golf Swing Help You Build a Marketing SYS-TEM?

Construction background How often do you find yourself getting ads for something that you just searched for? It can be both creepy and annoying. I went to a local golf shop to have some clubs regripped. While I was waiting I was shown an area where they will evaluate your swing and give you a…

Episode 860 – From Downturn To Disaster – Business Continuity with Erika Andresen

Erika Andresen, CBCP, JD, MPA, is a recovering lawyer after nearly two decades of experience in both the corporate finance world and the military. Erika became a subject matter expert on national security and disaster preparedness and response while advising different commands on their authorities and during high-risk situations in Afghanistan. Her work with actual…

Episode 859 – Are You Networking in a Hierarchical or Node Mode?

was listening to “The Square and the Tower”, subtitled “Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook” by Niall Ferguson. It argues that most organizations are hierarchical. “It’s about emperors, presidents, prime ministers, and field marshals. It’s about states, armies, and corporations. It’s about orders from on high.” Networks have nodes and have always been…

Episode 857 – What’s Your Marketing Mousetrap? – Part 3

In this final part of the series, I wanted to show how and why following traditional marketing thinking can hamper your success in B2b marketing. B2b marketing differs from consumer marketing because it’s more relational than transactional, and it often takes longer to go from awareness to trust. That means that there are more steps,…

Episode 855 – What’s Your Marketing Mousetrap? – Part 2

In part 1 of this series, I hinted that in this post I was going to outline a system we are working on that helps capture data from visitors in a way that traditional methods are either missing or lacking. I decided that before I devolve the system, I should add a little context as to…