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Make Your Busiest Season High-Powered

Make Your Busiest Season High-Powered

  We’ve enjoyed our summer vacations, gotten the kids back to school, and settled back into a familiar work routine. It’s time for what many businesses consider their busy season: the fall, winter, and spring months when we execute on our quarterly goals, fine-tune our annual plans, and assess our progress in the new year. […]

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Is Adversity the Business Model of the Future?

Is Adversity the Business Model of the Future?

Traditionally, American culture has aspired towards the finer things in life, leisure time and luxury goods among them. But increasingly, basking in luxury is no longer top priority for a growing class of consumers. These happiness hunters are looking away from consumer goods and towards a less quantifiable asset: a sense of accomplishment from overcoming […]

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Innovation is Building a Business Around the Customers No One Wants

Innovation is Building a Business Around the Customers No One Wants

Business people in technology hear the term constantly… but what is disruptive innovation really? It’s easy to glorify the term innovation, and the term “disrupt” has clearly become a buzzword. But at the heart of the matter is some really great scientific theory that can help new companies and existing companies alike to capture market share […]

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Framing things in the language of your prospects

Isn’t it nice when someone in another time zone does the conversion for you? How about when someone gets you a really thoughtful gift? In both situations another person is empathizing with your situation. Despite being done infrequently, this is ALWAYS received well. Brands are even worse than we are as individuals at empathizing with others because […]

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Shifting Resources from Sales to Marketing (Gradually)

Shifting Resources from Sales to Marketing (Gradually)

I constantly see this situation with our potential customers. They have a successful sales organization, their business comes from referrals, and they fear that if they take their eye off the ball for one moment, the whole thing will come crashing down. It’s a valid fear—one I empathize with deeply. At a certain point it […]

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