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KIM KARDASHIAN AND THE POWER OF A CELEBRITY BRAND
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Read MoreIs Your Personal Brand Lost In Translation? How To Clearly Communicate Your Value
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Read MoreEvery Entrepreneur’s Biggest Mistake (And How To Avoid It!)
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Read MoreThe Critic, The Mouseketeer, And The Iron Lady: Three Giants In Personal Branding
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Read MoreThe Kanye And Kim Kardashian Lesson In Personal Branding: Combining Audiences For Impact
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Read MoreYour Customer Compass: Are You Headed in the Right Direction?
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Read MoreLance Armstrong, Branding Catastrophes, And What Not To Do
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Read MoreChris Christie, Honey Boo Boo, And The Top 10 Celebrity Branding Success Stories Of 2012
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Read MoreThe Twinkie Template For Building An Eternal Brand
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Read MoreBundling Your Way To Bigger Profits
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Read MoreGiving Your Brand Story “Primal Power”: The Science of Storytelling
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Read MoreYou Have To Build a Relationship Before You Go All the Way…In Sales
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Read MoreMitt Romney And The Power Of Discipline
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Read MoreThe Mother Of All Branding Opportunities
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Read MoreAttention Must Be Paid – Or It Will Cost You Business
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Read MoreLarry King Embraces Internet TV–Should Your Brand Follow Suit?
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Read MoreWhat Apple Can Teach You About Competing on Price
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Read MoreThe Business Trifecta and the Secret formula for Media Success
This blog was originally posted and featured on FastCompany.com. The original post can be found here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1727569/the-business-trifecta-and-the-secret-formula-for-media-success In […]
Read MoreThe Rise of Internal Evangelists
This blog was originally posted and featured on FastCompany.com. The original post can be found here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1695023/the-rise-of-internal-evangelists In […]
Read MorePersonal Branding Tip: Put a Little PERSONALITY in It!
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Read MoreLeBron, The Media, and Your Message
By FastCompany Expert Bloggers Nick Nanton & JW Dicks Companies must take control of their own brand message […]
Read MoreMickey Mouse, The Personality Brand
In a recent New York Times article by Brooks Barnes, it reported that the Walt Disney Co. was […]
Read More30 Year Proven Marketing Strategies
DMNews is a consistent supply of great content and if you are not a regular subscriber of their […]
Read More30 Year Proven Marketing Strategies #1 Loyalty Programs
This lesson is my continuing look at the 30 year list selected by DMNews. The strategies we discuss […]
Read MoreHoliday Marketing Ideas
The months of November and December are loaded with reasons to contact your customers with promotions or just […]
Read MoreWeakening Your Brand with Kindness
I have driven Mercedes cars for about 10 years. The last three have been a SL55 AMG, and […]
Read MoreBuilding Your Brand With Viral Campaigns
The big brands continue to embrace the social media movement and are adapting it in many ways to […]
Read MoreBehind the Scenes At Disney
Our Company does an event a couple of times per year and part of it is a “behind […]
Read MoreThe Real Value of Personal Branding
The value of what a personality brings to a brand is normally calculated in terms of immediacy. What […]
Read MoreSpace Rangers Personal Branding Adventure
Buzz Lightyear has just returned from space. No I am not kidding. Disney’s action figure literally just returned […]
Read MoreSocial Media vs the SEC and Event Sponsors
Reminiscent of the early days in the battle lines being drawn between the music and movie industry vs. […]
Read MoreExpanding Your Personal Brand
My daughter Jennifer and I just spent our joint birthday celebrations at the Resort of the Brand of […]
Read MoreWhat’s Working Now!
Old is new again! Back in the “old days” most things were bought on cash but if you […]
Read MoreSuper Bowl Ads Blow Past The Recession!
Looks like some businesses have money to spend these days…and they are spending it. The Super Bowl sold […]
Read MoreSouthwest Air Has A Tip
Southwest Airlines is known for its quirky fun staff, low fares and peanuts for lunch. They may have […]
Read MoreIf The Business Isn’t Coming To You, Go To Where Your Customers Are
I am attending an Athletes Investor and Franchise show in Las Vegas. No, I wasn’t invited because I […]
Read MoreFord, General Motors and Chrysler Forgot The Big Idea
Flying in your own jet to a Congressional Hearing to ask for money was a stupid idea but […]
Read MoreThe Entrepreneur’s Banking Crisis
Banking has always been tough before for Entrepreneurs, but in this economy you need to be alert and […]
Read MoreChief Justice of the Supreme Court Prepared?
I am not going to be critical of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court except to use […]
Read MoreThe Opportunity Gap
In every type of business, there is a gap in what the product or service provides the customer […]
Read MoreCheck Your Credit Report For Free
Just a reminder that all of us are allowed to check our credit report for free once every […]
Read MoreWhat Do You Have That Is Underused?
As we watch the fallout of layoffs and cutbacks in business, I am looking for other profit centers […]
Read MoreThe Money Is In The Details
…Out in Vegas for an Athlete Investor and Franchise Show. This is supposed to be a gathering of […]
Read MoreBeware of Bad Laws and Bad Names for Laws.
Congress is notorious for giving wonderful sounding names to new bills they want to pass just to fool […]
Read MorePrice Can Have an Appeal
Cheap is not my favorite word when selling, but it is a marketing position and should always be […]
Read MoreTake a Pic…Send to Amazon…15 sec. order info
You have got to be kidding me. BlackBerry and probably every other phone now has an app that […]
Read MoreWho is making money right now?
This is a question to ask yourself now and to also put in your calendar to ask yourself […]
Read MoreThe Rich Panhandlers Message
Walking the street of restaurant row in Miami beach I was stopped by some dude sitting at a […]
Read MoreDoom and Gloom Update!
In the July issue of our newsletter, I talked about opportunity brought about by economic upheavals. The government […]
Read MoreIdeas You Can Use!
1. Thanksgiving Cards: September is almost over and it is time to order your Thanksgiving “thank you” cards. […]
Read MoreAn Idea From the Blue Man Group
There is a short article in the August edition of Inc. magazine from the Blue Man Group about […]
Read MoreTelling Your Story for More Profit
Telling stories is not only one of the oldest forms of communication; it is also one of the […]
Read MoreThe Other Side of the Economy
Thumbing through my new issue of the Robb Report, (today’s “Wish Book” for men), my eye was drawn […]
Read MoreA Birthday Present for America
It was the 3rd of July, and I was on the front porch of my beach house unfurling […]
Read MoreThe Next Big Thing
I just spent two days with fifteen of the most successful entrepreneurial marketers in the country. By that […]
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