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Bare Essentials: Marketing as a Necessary Evil

Marketing Craftmanship

Business owners across all industries and professions start companies because they have a specific expertise or interest – whether it involves trading currency futures or replacing car mufflers – and eventually discover that selling their product or service is neither in their wheelhouse, nor something they enjoy doing.

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The Death of Rolodex Marketing

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Surprisingly, a significant number of professional services firms continue to resist building online brand visibility as a business development strategy. We check out Edmunds.com before we buy a car. The excuses we hear from them most often include: “We’re in a relationship business.”. New clients don’t find us by searching online.”.

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Should Marketing Automation Customers be Pre-Qualified?

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It not only changed how companies produced printed materials; it also changed who was responsible for producing them. The error of many companies using Marketing Automation? Introduction of this new technology called “Desktop Publishing” rocked the business world. And that created a different problem.

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Avoid the Carnival Barker Approach to Publicity

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Companies of all sizes believe that more publicity is always better, as a means to raise brand awareness and drive business results. This effort requires that a company either engage an outside PR agency or employ dedicated staff members who are skilled at pitching stories and nurturing press coverage.