Daily Lab: Here’s to the boring ones
What makes you magical?
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Daily Lab: “That’s where the hungry people are.”
Where are people hungry for your value?
Daily Lab: Best practices are classic mistakes
We should re-label most “best practices” as “classic mistakes.”
Daily Lab: Do they need something, or want you?
It’s not enough to merely present ourselves to the market and tell them that we have what they need.
The Family Knife is now Kelford Inc.
For the past five and a half years we've been The Family Knife. But we've also been something else. It's something one of our favourite clients told us this summer: "You're not The Family Knife," she said, temporarily breaking our
Money-Making Marketing in 5 Steps
The reason your marketing is struggling is not because you don’t know what to do. It’s not struggling because you don’t know what to say. It’s struggling because you hate it.
What’s your bicycle of the mind?
Marketing cannot save a company, nor can it make one.
Spinning Your Marketing Wheels
You know the expression: “All roads lead to Rome.” There are lots of ways to get to the same place. It applies to marketing. There are a lot of ways to do marketing, and an awful lot of them will work.
5 Reasons Not to Work with Me
1. I provide very little documentation The strategy we’ll create together is ultimately yours, so formal documentation needs to be created on your end (with help and support) so that it doesn’t get rejected by your organization’s immune system. And I’m confident you know exactly what
Don’t build a brand, deserve one.
Today’s newsletter is a shortened and focused version of last week’s rather lengthy article. If you didn’t get a chance to read it, or you just want a version that’s stripped down to the major points, this one’s for you!
“Make Me Laugh”: How to build a brand based on values
Darwin said that he “followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once.”
"You'll get eaten alive."
In 1916, the Saturday Evening Post published “Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Business Man” by Robert Updegraff. In the story, the titular Adams becomes a sought-after consultant to business leaders who know they've been blinded by their own narrow perspective.
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