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Branded Interviews: Your Pathway to “Enlightened”? Thought Leadership

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They should not feature employees or clients Presented in a quick-reading Q&A editorial format, with 10 – 12 questions that highlight the individual’s personal and professional background, insights, and opinions Purely objective in nature.

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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. There’s a widely used survey methodology that yield “Net Promoter Scores,” designed to measure client loyalty; but for most small firms, you really only need to ask three questions: 1. Are we meeting your expectations? If not, why not?

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4 Media Relations Lessons…Learned the Hard Way

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Tired of declining to comment on his market share issue so many times, I finally said to him one day, “Why do you keep asking me that same dumb question? Some Reporters Have Personal Agendas. He asked me a question that I didn’t really understand, but my ego did not allow me to admit to him that I didn’t know the correct answer.

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How To Make Marketing An Invaluable Function

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If marketing can gain a sense of what actually occurs on sales calls — ranging from how the product or service is described, to the prospects’ questions and objections — it will be in a much better position to craft tools and tactics that are based on market realities, rather than sales reports.

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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. ” Each time I’ve met with a prospective client over the past three decades, one of the first questions I ask is, “Do you have a written marketing plan?”

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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. There’s a widely used survey methodology that yield “Net Promoter Scores,” designed to measure client loyalty; but for most small firms, you really only need to ask three questions: 1. Are we meeting your expectations? If not, why not?

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Why Your Company’s Blog Doesn’t Make the Phone Ring

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For starters, they should be published on LinkedIn, both on your personal profile (as a long-form blog post like this one), and as an “Update” on your firm’s corporate LinkedIn page. With a few seconds to grab a potential reader’s attention, headlines are the most critical element of a blog post. Your posts are too long.