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The Importance of Widget Making

One key aspect that separates the most prosperous businesses from the rest is that they develop the skill of widget making. Widget making could be the number one skill you’ll ever learn as a business owner. Once you’ve got it, you use it over and over again every day in your business.  Widget making is […]


Define a Clear Message

One of the biggest obstacles to prosperity for most business owners is that they don’t have a clear message to communicate to the market. Somebody sets up a restaurant, a florist shop or coaching practice and they spend all their time and energy worrying about what it looks like inside or what their website is […]


Marketing Mistakes-April Fool’s Marketing Screw Up’s

With April Fool’s Day approaching, we thought we’d share with you these real marketing mistakes and screw ups by BIG companies. Enjoy! Coors translated its slogan, “Turn it loose” into Spanish where it was read as “Suffer from diarrhea.” Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called “Cue”, the name of a notorious porn magazine. Scandinavian […]


Your Target Customer-BOLDNESS PAYS OFF

“Don’t be afraid to make some people angry. Boldness pays off. Think of this – in America, you can have 50% of the country dislike you and still be elected president.” ~ Dan Kennedy I can’t affirm that 50% stat is 100% accurate, but the point is dead on. When you draw a line in the […]


How The Circus Mastered Direct Mail…And You Can Too!!!

Back in the days before YouTube, Cable TV, iPhones, and 24/7/365 media saturation of every single aspect of our lives, entertainment was actually special. And one thing that every child in mid-America looked forward to was when the circus came to town. But getting Mom and Dad bought into the idea could take some effort. […]


The 3 Major Mistakes That Will Doom Your Copywriting Effectiveness

There’s something magical about the number 3… it forms the basis for great drama (3-act plays), it’s the common structure for presentations (beginning, middle, end), and it’s a common rule-of-thumb in design, gardening, and so many more endeavors. Today I’m going to let you in on three (3) common mistakes that will absolutely KILL the […]


9 Key Areas You Can Find Marketing Ideas That Turn Into THE Big Idea

It may seem daunting at first, but actually there’s quite a few places to start to look inside your business when coming up with marketing ideas that turn into your own BIG idea – in fact, 9 to be specific: Do you have some kind of proprietary technology to crow about? What about your story… […]


Jumpstart Your Marketing With The “Rule Of 5”

Let me ask you and be honest with yourself here, are you getting the results you want in your business? If you are great, this message will be helpful in getting you to the next level. If you’re not, don’t worry, it will certainly put you on the right path. Now I’ve read the studies […]


7 Key Elements of Your Marketing System

Here are the key elements of a marketing system: 1. A selected group of prospects (sometimes referred to as a “farm”, “farm area” or “target market” The better the selection, the better the results. For example, when you are able to analyze the response to a mailing list, you can identify those elements with the […]


Branding Builds Recognition

Branding helps build recognition and recognition is one of the first steps in creating the “know, like, and trust” factor. Great branding is when your prospects respond with, “Oh yeah, he’s the ____ guy”, or “She’s the one who . . .” and fill in the blank whenever they hear your name – and that’s […]