Your Brand Isn’t a Logo. It’s a System.

I’ve been a brand consultant for 20 years now. That is a difficult job to explain to people. Usually when I say I’m a brand consultant, people will respond, “Oh, you design logos.” And although I have an MFA...

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The ‘New’ Center of the Sales Cycle

The sales cycle is a classic framework that has been around for a long time. You can find versions that are more complicated than this, but I like this one. For me, this is the simplest way of breaking down...

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All Marketing is Local Marketing

Tip O'Neill, former Speaker of the House, once famously said "All politics is local." It was a lesson he learned in his first political loss: unless you connect to the needs and desires of the folks near you, you...

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Apple Starts the Countdown Clock

As a long-time Apple fan, I followed a live blog of Steve Job's keynote speech at the Apple Developer's Conference yesterday. By then, the world knew most of the Apple news: iCloud and a new operating system plus a...

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