misconceptions

It’s Mostly Invisible

2023-10-13T18:21:58+00:00By |

Customers need to like you before they need you. And “like” is mostly invisible. The reasons we do the things we do sit deep in the limbic part of our brains. It’s waaayyy down there. One of the first parts of the brain to form.

Does the Name Ring a Bell?

2023-10-13T18:22:32+00:00By |

Most businesses have an awareness problem. More accurately, unawareness. The distance from unawareness to awareness is like going from the moon to Mars, and just as daunting.

Your Coupons Are Lying To You

2024-05-15T14:36:43+00:00By |

4 families in 5 use coupons, but not because the coupon instigated the purchase. Rather, they use the coupon because there was a coupon to be used.

Modernizing The Buying Funnel

2023-10-16T15:12:47+00:00By |

In our combined 50-plus years of doing this, we’ve learned sales resistance and loss of repeat and referral customers comes from one of two places.

Generation Gem and How to Market to Them

2023-10-13T18:22:42+00:00By |

Hidden in the flurry of marketing activity around Millennials and the up-and-coming Gen Z, is a diamond group of cohorts called Generation Gem. Research shows this generation to be one of the most lucrative.

Do Two Things To Win

2023-10-16T14:49:49+00:00By |

The problem with most advertising is each of the messages is trying to get you to make a decision at that very moment. It’s the short game. The ‘Give A Man A Fish’ approach, if you will. But, the man only eats for a day.

About That Price

2023-10-13T18:22:51+00:00By |

“The only thing people care about is the lowest price.” This is the rejoinder I most often hear when a business doesn’t see any value in advertising (much less marketing). This confounded me for many years until I realized advertising wasn’t the problem.

Reverse Camouflage Advertising

2023-10-16T16:38:19+00:00By |

Sharply define the edges between you and the alternatives. Not only with content, but with style as well. If everyone else is doing a “yell and sell,” talk intimately with the audience.

When Will My Ads Start Working?

2023-10-16T15:08:44+00:00By |

Few business owners advertise long enough to see the results of their investment. They’ll pull up the seed and throw it to the side. Nothing ever grows! And that’s a good thing for you.

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