One of my all-time favorite business jokes involves two guys walking through the woods. Suddenly, the two see a bear charging towards them. The first kicks off his boots and…
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Connected Consumption is the new customer experience (CX)
Lesson for leaders Today’s marketing is becoming obsolete. It comes from yesterday’s world. Its focus is “find, buy, and deliver.” Now imagine having an invisible 2-way channel inside everything that…
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Digital herds
In his thought-provoking podcast Revisionist History, renowned author and speaker Malcolm Gladwell investigates what he calls “the overlooked and the misunderstood.” In one of its most captivating episodes, “The Big…
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Capture the future’s biggest competitive advantage for yourself
Lesson for leaders Becoming the biggest leader is hard. The top competitors usually defeat all companies. Why do most fail? They compete in predictable ways and try what everyone knows,…
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B2B marketing lessons from Michael Brenner
I listened to Michael Brenner recently give a keynote talk to B2B marketers at the MeritDirect Coop client conference, and picked up scads of great insights, tips, and strategic wisdom…
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How to turn your business blog into a publisher
Regardless of the products or services you sell, your goal likely boils down to one objective: solving customers’ problems. Since this single goal unites nearly all businesses, many companies have…
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Your company’s digital future is still open, if you capture it first
Lesson for leaders You can control your digital future if your know where you’re going, and know how to reach it first. But if you don’t know, someone else will…
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How do you persuade big company executives that digital marketing is important?
Many of you no longer face this problem within your company, which is great. Some of you are increasing spending on digital and reaping the rewards, but not all. Some…
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Lead exponential digital growth through publishing and advertising
Lesson for Leaders Advertising is the Internet’s main business model. How can publishers exceed the lost advertising revenues and content displays taken by dominant platforms like Google and Facebook? How…
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5 tips to get people to buy online
Online sales is a booming industry and the revenue is growing exponentially. One just has to look at the many retail giants with years of experience that have either scaled…
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