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Optimizing the wrong things

◘ We’re talking with an agency to improve our website.They’ve told us we need to improve our SEO, links and so on. With that, our website will be better. FOUR

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Noise

Find your voice. Be contrarian. Be authentic. Getting all of these will make you stand out in your market. You’ll start “to print money”. Bullshit. First. You already have a

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The wrong numbers game

Seen on linkedin Seeing marketing through this lens is playing the spam game. That’s why sales and contacting new people feels manipulative and sleazy. Because it is. 50 → 10

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Let’s not screw up

In the avoidance of mistakes, where everyone fears screwing things up, there’s always the outlier who stands out. Rory Sutherland in his conversation with Blair Enns and Leah Power has

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A punch in the face.

“Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the face.” Mike Tyson However, if you have an approach… You can receive a quite decent amount of punches and still

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How to see different

Ads are pretty much the same —most of the times, at most of the places. Be it Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, US, Germany, Netherlands, India or Sri Lanka. Different brands,

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Vortex

Broad in interests and inputs, specific and specialized in the application. To stand out in a world of sameness, you need to feed yourself of a broad range of what’s

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How many people…

If you’re running a customer satisfaction or customer service-driven business, how many people with a background in hospitality have you had involved in it? Or how many of your people

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Personal rebranding

A personal brand means you are a brand. If you’re a brand, then you can rebrand. You can change your visuals. Your stories. Your narratives. Your beliefs. Your values. To

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A thing

As humans, we want things to look human to us, so that they become familiar. Hence, the use of language, mascots, adding personality traits to businesses/brands, cartoons, etc. It makes

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“You need a personal brand”

You’re a brand, you’re the product. Get all the bells and whistles of a brand (visuals, narratives, stories, etc.). Be “consistent” on your projected image. Put yourself out there. Make

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Leveraging effort

“People buy/do things because they aspire to become something else.” Most marketing (and advertising) bros Well, that’s not necessarily true. A (desire to) change is a representation of who you

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Sprinkling personality in

“Along the way, sprinkle in personality so people see the person behind the personal brand.” Doesn’t this feel like there are 2 different things here? You And your “personal brand”.

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The dysfunction of personal brands

A brand is the gut feeling a person has about an organization, product or service. Not about a person. Here’s why Because from a functional perspective, an organization, product or

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The extra mile

Talking about underpromising and overdelivering, here’s an exercise for you. 🙂 Take 5 brands/companies you LOVE. Not that you like very much or that they’re quite good. That you LOOOOVE.

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Giving others power.

Empowerment. How it’s commonly understood: to give others power. And just like that, it becomes a tool for command and control, because just as you can give power, you can

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