Posts Tagged ‘marketing’

TweetWant to help me get “This Sentence Has 5ive Words: Eigen Values, Creating Truisms + the Future of  Marketing” published on 800 CEO READ’s ChangeThis.com?   Click “yes, publish it!” HERE. “Will its tapes play in my VCR?” These words grated like fingernails on a chalk board in the mid-90’s to anyone in Sony’s Personal […]

Tweet We’re all storytellers. Regardless of whether you’re a writer grinding out your first screenplay or a CEO staring into the blank eyes of your board members, your first and most important job is capturing your audience’s imagination. Why? Because stories capture our imagination in a way that lessons, recitation of facts and research can’t. […]

Tweet Hello, marketers. Look at your AC Nielsen data. Now back at me. Now back at your data. Now back to me. Did I ever tell you that I spent much of my formative years neck-deep in AC Nielsen data, judging year-over-year, month-over-month, weekly, SKU-level and key account level sell through data? I did. It wasn’t the […]

Tweet   Welcome #Kaizenblog! “This sentence has five words.” Is there any rational person out there who wants to debate this point? Probably not. It’s self-defining. It’s obvious. When we say, “This sentence has five words,” we are presenting our listener with a truism. It is, by its own definition, correct. This is an Eigen Value, […]

Tweet Hello, marketers. Look at your ad. Now back at me. Now back at your ad. Now back to me. Sadly, your ad didn’t sell anything. But if it stopped trying to be comedy and remembered that ads were supposed to sell stuff, it could act like me. Look down. Back up. Where are we? […]