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What to do when it’s ‘Too Good to be True’.

May 27, 2009

What do you do when you have something truly ground-breaking in your hands?
What do you do when you have something that is literally, ‘Too Good to be True”?
Take it to market?  Yes – but if it’s ‘Too Good to be True” – the biggest hurdle you have to jump is actually getting people to believe [...]

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Darwin, Marketing and Missing Links

May 20, 2009

I saw this quote by Charles Darwin today…
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Had he not been the most influential naturalist of all time, he could have easily turned his hat at being a Business [...]

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Batter yourself and beat your competition!

May 16, 2009

We all love fish and chips and whilst you get some better than others, we tend to stick to the local Chippy even if one further a field offers better quality grub.
Reason being; Fish n’ Chips is a convenience food, and unless the Chippy further a field is remarkably better, you would tend to stick [...]

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This Piggyback went to Market

May 14, 2009

Did you know there is a very easy method for breaking into new markets and making new customers?
Even better, this method takes very little time and very little (if any) up-front investment.
It’s called ‘Piggybacking’ and in essence it is utilising the resources, systems, contacts, and the sales force of other organisations that operate in your [...]

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Hail to the Hairdresser

April 27, 2009

One of my photographer friends called me yesterday wanting some advice on own how to generate referrals from within his local community.
My advice?
“Be really nice to your hairdresser!”
Think about it.  What other profession has their finger on the pulse of a local community like this?
They see around 10 people each day and chat to them [...]

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A Builders Blog – more rare than Chicken’s Lips!

April 23, 2009

A few weeks ago I had a chat about what blogs can do for business with Dean Chudasama, the MD of a small new build developer called Damson Homes.
They where about to buy some land for a new development of three houses and I suggested he set up a blog to inform potential buyers and [...]

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