Perkolatr. The Most Important Business App You’re Not Using
Perkolatr will change everything. Should you be on it?
Dollar General – What 75% of Americans won’t believe
75% of all Americans live within 5 miles of a Dollar General. Here's how J.L. Turner created this empire.
Super Bowl Advertising vs. Your Advertising
Even guaranteed attention fizzles with a dud ad, while completely disinterested audiences can be won over with high-impact advertising.
Empire Builders: Netflix – known for one thing; twice.
It is not the strongest or most intelligent of companies that become empires. It is the company that is most willing to adapt.
The Most Controversial Part of Marketing
It’s not really controversial… but marketers don’t seem to like to do it.
Cowards, Cow-words and tails between your legs
Are you writing ads with your tail between your legs? If you’re not acting like the young bull with nothing to lose, someone else is.
Your Business Culture – Asset or Liability?
Neglecting your culture opens the door to liabilities that will hold you back, especially as you grow.
Coke – they already had an empire, but…
No matter how big you are, no matter how much you spend, and even if you are the best marketers on the planet; you cannot bend the consumer to your will.
What the Bible teaches us about advertising
There is a natural order with advertising and time in the first 40 weeks. Respect it and win. Abuse it and risk wandering the desert.
Will Advertising Sell What People Don’t Want?
It's a common desire in retail to advertise the things which aren’t selling and let those which will sell easily sell themselves.
The Custodian of Hospitality
Covid-19’s impact on business and the decisions needed for survival are Frostian. But don’t lose your way. Survival depends on Frostian decisions.
Distinctiveness vs. Differentiation vs. Bonding
Branding aims at de-commodification: getting the customer to see you as the better, worthier option. And there are three ways of pursuing this goal.
The Biggest Waste in Advertising (a Case Study)
Advertising in the bigger community to draw customers to your smaller community is as futile as trying to make the water in a river defy gravity.
Secrets of a genius storyteller
Learn from the great Ronnie Van Zant from Lynyrd Skynyrd. Appeal to your audience by speaking to them in their language.
An interview with a small business that applied the Wrigley formula
He does not sell gum. He sells used RVs and he applied the lessons from Wrigley’s and is growing like crazy.