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Is Your Firm a “Safe Choice”? for Prospective Clients?

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To make matters worse, prospective clients will decide to include or exclude you from their short list long before they talk with you, or meet you in person. They’ll form an opinion based on publicly available information they find online. Acid Test: Do other opinion leaders reference your firm’s ideas or contributions?

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Why Clients Don’t Value Your Ability

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For better or worse, your clients judge you (or your firm) primarily on a personal, visceral basis. Cutting through the vast amount of information that clients receive each day. Online platforms like surveymonkey.com make it easy to design, conduct and evaluate a client opinion survey.

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Diet, Exercise And Marketing: Self-Imposed Obstacles That Ensure Failure

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There are valid social and physiological reasons most people don’t do the things necessary to maintain their personal health and fitness. On their journeys, they also must overcome self-imposed obstacles, and in my opinion, three of those are the same reasons marketing fails at most companies. Setting Unrealistic Expectations.

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10 Ways to Market Your Brand’s Integrity

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Unfortunately, simply telling target audiences and opinion leaders that your company is smart, honest, unique, innovative, creative, cutting-edge, trusted, etc. Consistency: Is all information kept up-to-date, and relevant to current market conditions? And it’s a corporate asset that needs to be marketed. never succeeds.

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7 Signs that You’re NOT a Thought Leader

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There’s diverse opinion regarding what it is, and fuzzy expectations with respect to its benefits. Instead, it engages the prospective client based on ideas, opinions and advice that enables them to make their own objective decision regarding the seller’s potential to add value. And that requires personal (or enterprise) discipline.

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What Your Doctor Can Teach You About Business Growth

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For better or worse, your clients judge you (or your firm) primarily on a personal, visceral basis. Cutting through the vast amount of information that clients receive each day. Online platforms like surveymonkey.com make it easy to design, conduct and evaluate a client opinion survey.

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Are Pitch Letters The Cinderella Of Content Marketing?

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expose information indirectly to a large audience. Both requirements are addressed by unsolicited pitch letters, which is the only genre of content marketing that delivers tailored content through a personalized solicitation process. In fact, many will welcome an objective outside opinion, even if you are delivering bad news.