The Vault: Progress vs. Inertia

On November 29, 2008, in Innovation, by Brett Duncan

Brett’s note: The Vault is a look back at some of the more profound posts on MarketingInProgress.com. This one was originally posted on Sept. 5, 2007.  Progress vs. Inertia Does a day go by at your office that you’re not reminded of the system, or process, or procedure, or protocol? Yes, they’re all important, but [...]

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37 Marketing Tips for Start-Up Businesses

On November 25, 2008, in Links, Lists, by Brett Duncan

Jim has collected an amazing collection of concise marketing tips here worth looking at. Plus, he did it all through Twitter.  Here are a few of my favorites: Marketing is like a snowball. You have to keep rolling to see results. You can’t start and stop and start and stop.      – Cynthia Powell www.ChicksAndCubs.com [...]

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Burger King, Crap and Word of Twitter: Good Reading

On November 23, 2008, in Weekend Reading, by Brett Duncan

More tasty links from the week that was: Don’t Be Crap. Love this Bono quote. Print it, frame it and read it on a regular basis.  Burger King Has Dropped Its Wallet. This is just brilliant. Burger King’s latest viral wonder is randomly dropping wallets all over metro areas. Read the post for the full [...]

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Find a Starving Crowd

On September 22, 2008, in Quotes, by Brett Duncan

Just read this quote by Ken on Bly.com: Find a starving crowd…find out what they’d like to eat, then feed it to them.  - Gary Halbert Somehow, I’ve managed to never hear this quote. But I’ll never forget it now. It’s simple. It’s profound. It’s true. Is your crowd starving, or just looking for the [...]

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Launches, Perfection and Flux

On March 7, 2008, in Product Launches, by Brett

Steve makes three solid points that are Post-It Note worthy. It’s an excellently succinct philosophy. The one that made me really stop and digest was this one: Perfection does not exist . . . only chasing it does. I’d add to it that you can’t possibly know what perfection to even chase until you’re in the middle [...]

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The Best 9 Blog Posts I Read All Weekend

On January 14, 2008, in Weekend Reading, by Brett

Enjoy this week’s version of Weekend Reading: 20 Reasons Why Corporate Sucks: This is a pretty complete list. My favorite is the commentary on sick days. The Power of “I Don’t Know”: Why does it feel like we’re failing when we admit we don’t know something? As this post explains, there’s actually more power in [...]

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Intention is Powerless

On November 13, 2007, in Leadership, Management, Quotes, by Brett

I heard my dear friend Rick Loy state a quote a few nights ago at the Roaring Lambs banquet that is, ironically, quite powerful: We all know that intention is powerless. Thankfully, Rick has also written a post on the same topic, so enjoy. I’m guilty of banking too much on intention. My gut tells [...]

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Building Your Wings

On November 11, 2007, in Quotes, by Brett

Excellent quote I found over at the Sayings blog. Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. Kobi Yamada Apply as needed. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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