tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1651046 2011-12-28T11:30:00-05:00 Solutions that Mean Business TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55256586188340154390366b9970c 2011-12-28T11:30:00-05:00 2011-12-29T11:24:09-05:00

Advertising, regardless of form is a key component in your company's marketing mix. But did you know that in 2011, online advertising has beaten out print and radio as the number two place ad dollars are spent. But how did it come to be that way? Four thousand years ago Ancient Egyptians invented advertising by carving public notices in steel....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YourBusinessWisdom/~4/seWQs7Bp1Jo" height="1" width="1"/>

the Ad Marketing Guy http://yourbusinesswisdom.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/walk-down-advertisings-memory-lane.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55256586188340162fdfc9581970d 2011-12-21T09:33:00-05:00 2011-12-21T10:24:08-05:00

From Blundering to Winning – "The 3 Most Common Sales Presentation Blunders" Most sales personnel "learn" sales presentation by mimicking their boss's mistakes. If you haven't been properly trained to sales present you may lose sales, bore prospective clients, and may be doomed for overall failure! Picture your last sales presentation . . . How much of the material presented...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YourBusinessWisdom/~4/k9q11dikD_M" height="1" width="1"/>

the Ad Marketing Guy http://yourbusinesswisdom.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/selling-blundering-to-winning.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55256586188340162fde6c05d970d 2011-12-19T11:00:00-05:00 2011-12-20T07:16:27-05:00

If you look up the definition, "Guerrilla Marketing, is an unconventional way of performing promotional activities on a very low budget." While this is accurate, I'm not buying. The great guerrillas like Che or Mao had something more going for them than being "unconventional and cheap." Their battles became legend because they were thinking beyond the next quarter. That's why...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YourBusinessWisdom/~4/U__BzN0vV0E" height="1" width="1"/>

the Ad Marketing Guy http://yourbusinesswisdom.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/guerrilla-marketingwhats-is-it.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e55256586188340162fca693d9970d 2011-11-21T10:27:27-05:00 2011-11-22T08:16:54-05:00

Honestly speaking, I do miss the 60's and can sympathize with today's' "Occupy Movements". Of course in the never ending means to recapture my youth, I think I see a good that I personally am undertaking from all this "occupy stuff". Yesterday, I started my own "Occupy My Business" Movement ! Yes, I have my own movement. . .<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YourBusinessWisdom/~4/NcZbUNpPyz8" height="1" width="1"/>

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