2024

3 posts published in 2024.

Brand Awareness: Stop Wasting Money and Time on Failure

We need to talk about how you’ve been justifying your marketing budget. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but if your brand awareness campaign isn’t converting, you aren’t accomplishing your marketing goals. Sure, there are companies that can afford to inundate the public with their brand, but I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you don’t have that kind of budget.

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#advertising#branding#marketing#problem solving

Competitive Analysis: The Wrong Angle

The longer I conduct business, the more obvious it seems that running a business is not, in fact, a competition. And if business is not a competition, competitive analysis is rendered an utterly pointless pastime of the entrepreneur.

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#analytics#marketing#problem solving#website

Creativity Matters: Today's Urgent Need for Meaningful Content

It goes without saying that technological advance and modern conveniences have changed the way we live dramatically in the past couple decades. With so much of our capacity for creativity now freed up by these conveniences, it would be logical to conclude that society is capable of more creativity than ever. Unfortunately, logic has no horse in the race when it comes to creativity. Therefore, creativity is still a relative rarity. Take it from me, a self-proclaimed creative, professional marketer, and musician since age 9. What you’re looking at might not be “creativity”.

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#art#creativity#focus#marketing#technology