The very best form of marketing is what we call Word Of Mouth. Why? Because it is from the heart, from one person to another and it includes implicitly, the Human Relationship factor we all need: Trust. Several years ago, I wrote about the Word Of Mouth advantage that...
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Human Relationship Marketing in a Nutshell
All of us are exposed to a variety of advertising and marketing messages every single day. But there is one method that trumps all the others combined and it's built on what I refer to as Human Relationship Marketing. Human Relationship Marketing is a different...
Navigating The Economy & Making Money
If you are listening to, watching, or reading all the doom and gloom stories in the news right now... Stop It. My friends, instead of getting swallowed up in the bad news of rising prices, staffing and supply chain shortages and whatever else we have going on in the...
No Short-Cuts
There is a simple formula in advertising that seems to be accepted by nearly anyone that hears it: The Right Message, presented to the Right People, the Right Number of Times = Results. Yep, it take into consideration three "right" things and promises to work if you...
You Can Only Coast Downhill
What are you doing to build your business right now? It's a question I ask when I am in front of a business owner. Sadly, many don't have a plan. Or some are afraid of what the future might hold and they are behaving very cautiously. Too cautious I dare to say. "Oh,...
More Powerful Than Digital Advertising
Over the past couple of decades, the biggest growth in advertising expenditures has been digital. I'm talking about nearly anything online, from websites, to apps, to Google ads, Social Media Ads, all of it together has consistently seen growth in the double digits,...
The Trust Factor
A couple of Thursday mornings ago, a couple things happened before 8am. An email from Insider Radio that included the headline: Americans May Love Social Media, But Survey Finds It’s Radio That They Trust. Also it was the beginning of day 2 of a weather-induced work...
The Giving Time of the Year
Blessed to be a blessing is a phrase I heard a long time ago and right now I see a lot of it going on. It's a quiet Sunday afternoon as I compose these words for this weeks featured article on my website and podcast and I'm thinking about a multitude of things. It's...
$5000
As we approach the end of 2021, I'm looking to add to my advertising sales team at WOWO Radio. I just started running a radio ad that mentions a $5000 sign-on bonus going to the next person who qualifies that I hire. Here's the text of the ad or if you would like to...