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Creative Ways to Market Your Business

Strategy Driven

Marketing your business to a wide variety of audiences and maximizing the number of people you will be reaching is undoubtedly one way of promoting success. However, as a business owner, you probably understand that the market is saturated with the traditional methods of branding and marketing a business. Social Media.

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How to grow sales on a downsized marketing budget

Strategy Driven

Businesses are often quick to slash marketing budgets in times of disruption, and the response to the recent economic upheaval has been no different. Global ad spend is predicted to fall by nearly $50 billion in 2020, with major organizations like Google cutting marketing budgets in half for the rest of the year.

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The Pistol Maker Who Saved American Industry

Lead Change Blog

It was the sidearm of choice for Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill Coty, “Bat” Masterson and Wild Bill Hickok. Sam Colt was a marketing genius. Colt pistols were advertised with the revolver being used on wild animal hunts or against bandits. Wild West performers sported Colt pistols.

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The Bull who withstood the Monster

In the CEO Afterlife

In my blog of last week, entitled A Monster of an Idea , I gave kudos to the Monster Beverage Corporation for becoming a ridiculously -profitable, high-growth $2 billion dollar enterprise despite ignoring the Holy Grail of marketing commandments. A market did not exist for his brainchild; Mateschitz believed he could create one.

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Sam Ford: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Sam Ford is Director of Audience Engagement for Peppercomm. His 2013 New York University Press book, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, was co-authored by Henry Jenkins and Joshua Green. The book was named one of the best business books of 2013 by Booz & Co.’s

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Is It Fun Being Led by You?

Lead Change Blog

He hunted wild animals in Africa and, as a naturalist, started the U.S. Squeezing another penny out of costs, getting product to market a few weeks earlier, responding to customers’ inquiries a little bit faster, ratcheting quality up one more notch, capturing another point of market share–those are the obsessions of managers today.

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Leaders, Want To Master Innovation? Then Get Funny!

Tanveer Naseer

Of course, humor can be highly subjective and what one person finds hilarious another person may not – so knowing your audience is paramount. Social humor is practiced as part of the IDEO design thinking process that “encourages wild ideas” to take root.