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Rule #2 of Marketing: Concentration

March 5, 2010
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Ever hear the term “scatter shot”? Or “shot gun approach”? While few of us would admit to such a lapse of common sense, the reality is that most small businesses engage in Scatter shot Marketing. The symptoms of this disorder include:

constantly trying to figure out who to call on
the reinvention of the prospecting process every [...]

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Rule #1 of Marketing: Simplicity

March 1, 2010
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Marketing success comes down to one thing: knowing the rules of the game. Think about that for a minute. Let it swirl around in your brain. Seems like common sense, right? You can’t win a game if you don’t know the rules. Over the last couple of decades of creating successful marketing initiatives, I’ve discovered [...]

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I hate the color blue.

February 5, 2010
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Eliminating Personal Preferences in the communications development process.
By Pete Monfre
Evaluating creative work is one of the most difficult processes anyone faces when executing a marketing or communications strategy. The pressure comes from the fact that these decisions can make the difference between the success and failure of an entire effort. It’s not that we [...]

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Don’t Neglect the Sales People!

January 3, 2010
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I had an experience recently that shouldn’t have surprised me but it did. It happened as I started working with a $40 million software company.
My job is to help the company improve it’s value proposition and follow through with detailed marketing and tactical plans. To gather the necessary information, I was participating in a conference [...]

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Marketing vs. Engineering: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

December 28, 2009
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I’ve had the pleasure of working with engineers since very early in my career. Many marketing people wouldn’t use the word “pleasure” in this context. My experience has been at times challenging but at the same time I wouldn’t have been able to be successful in the tech industry without the input and support of [...]

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