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[Podcast] How to Draft Your Company’s Positioning Statement

[Podcast] How to Draft Your Company’s Positioning Statement

Susan Silver is President of Argentum Strategy Group, a Chicago marketing strategy consulting firm.  After spending 10 years in Brand Management at Kraft Foods and Read More

Cultivating Brand Loyalty

Cultivating Brand Loyalty

CEOs must consider a number of strategies for growing their companies.  Should they diversify into new markets?  Develop new products?  Grow through acquisition?  Making the Read More

John Gerzema Fridays with Vistage Webinar Summary:  How the Post Crisis Values Revolution is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live

John Gerzema Fridays with Vistage Webinar Summary: How the Post Crisis Values Revolution is Changing the Way We Buy, Sell, and Live

There are five shifting values and consumer behaviors currently remaking America and the world. What are they and what do they mean to you as Read More

The Importance of Building Your Company’s Brand

The Importance of Building Your Company’s Brand

Do you recognize any of these company names: BackRub? Blue Ribbon Sports? Or Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation?

Probably not, but I bet you’ll recognize their Read More

5 Minute Google Marketing Tip That Will Save Your Company Thousands in 2013

5 Minute Google Marketing Tip That Will Save Your Company Thousands in 2013

The new year is well underway and Google has been the subject of a lot of recent news having just penalized the powerhouse UK flower Read More

Do you have a Mobile Strategy?

Do you have a Mobile Strategy?

Smartphones and tablets have disrupted every industry, and we are moving towards a society where the vast majority of our tasks are completed on our Read More

Is Your Company Set Up Correctly to Win the Google Game?

Is Your Company Set Up Correctly to Win the Google Game?

If someone is looking to do business with you, where do they find you?

If you’re the owner and your response is anything other than Read More

Ride Your Elevator Pitch To The Top

Ride Your Elevator Pitch To The Top

Every businessperson has had the experience of being asked, “what does your company do?”  Sometimes we’re expecting this question and we’re ready to pounce with Read More

Anatomy of a Product Failure

Anatomy of a Product Failure

At the end of 2012, I was drawn to an article, “The Worst Product Flops of 2012”.   There were some hugely successful product Read More

The Great Social Customer Service Race: Top Brands Put To the Social Support Test

The Great Social Customer Service Race: Top Brands Put To the Social Support Test

Brand giants such as  Apple, Pepsi and Visa receive thousands upon thousands of messages per day on Twitter and it’s not reasonable for them to Read More

10 Secrets To Blogging That Drives Leads For Your Business

10 Secrets To Blogging That Drives Leads For Your Business

There’s a reason the new experts in marketing are so high on blogging and that’s because it contributes to a lead generating inbound marketing effort Read More

The N reasons you should read this blog post

The N reasons you should read this blog post

I read an article this week about the best and worst run states in America.  I, like everyone else, have opportunities to read many Read More

A Case Study in Content Marketing with Infographics

A Case Study in Content Marketing with Infographics

As I have discussed on other recent blogs the lines between digital marketing and traditional marketing and PR are blurring rapidly.  In some cases, such Read More

The Importance of Multi-Channel Attribution for Online Marketing Mix Modeling

The Importance of Multi-Channel Attribution for Online Marketing Mix Modeling

Marketing mix modeling artfully presents statistical analysis from sales and marketing data. It can be used for determining the impact that various marketing efforts have Read More

Your Competitors Might Be Stealing Your Leads

Your Competitors Might Be Stealing Your Leads

Lead theft is occurring every day on every single website. It is happening to you and your company, whether you know it or not. How Read More

Marketing in the Round

Marketing in the Round

Gini Dietrich and Geoff Livingston look really happy don’t they?  Well, they should be happy.  They are proud co-authors of one of the few marketing Read More

Is Your USP Truly Unique?

Is Your USP Truly Unique?

In my travels I routinely ask CEOs to identify their “Unique Selling Propositions”.  Most often, the response I hear is “superior customer service”. To provide Read More

4 Strategies for Localized Marketing Made Easy

4 Strategies for Localized Marketing Made Easy

Marketing to a location is one of the most effective methods for making a national brand immediately relevant. Unfortunately, the practice is often expensive, cumbersome Read More

How to Use SlideShare to Get More Leads for Your Business

How to Use SlideShare to Get More Leads for Your Business

Social media – it’s one of the hottest buzz words today. We get it—if you haven’t figured out how to use it in your personal Read More

How Business Leaders Can Reach the Customer of the Future

How Business Leaders Can Reach the Customer of the Future

During the Reagan Administration, Herb Meyer served as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council.  Read More

Rebranding-8 Steps for Refreshing your Brand

Rebranding-8 Steps for Refreshing your Brand

One must contemplate the distinction between branding and rebranding. Rebranding is often miscast as an exercise in repairing one’s reputation. Some rebranding efforts focus on Read More

[Podcast] 3 Questions that Determine a Customer’s Buying Behavior

[Podcast] 3 Questions that Determine a Customer’s Buying Behavior

Podcast with Rebecca Costa

Podcast highlights:

- How the price of a product impacts the percentage of time a customer spends on each buying Read More

Do C-Suite Executives Understand the Value of Twitter?

Do C-Suite Executives Understand the Value of Twitter?

I was very skeptical at first. It was March 2009, and a friend of mine had suggested that I “really should get on Twitter.” I Read More

Revolution: The Kony Video and the Future of Marketing

Revolution: The Kony Video and the Future of Marketing

You would have to be living under a rock not to have heard about the grass roots effort to capture Joseph Kony of the Lord’s Read More

Sales and Marketing, Time to Get Married!

Sales and Marketing, Time to Get Married!

Marketing and Sales have been dating for years and it’s no longer OK for Sales and Marketing to have a causal relationship.  If Marketing is Read More