by Clare | Feb 7, 2024 | Competitive Marketing, Content Marketing, Growth Strategies, Marketing Strategy
We know we shouldn’t. We know it’s a waste time. As fractional execs we even know how counterproductive it is. But we do it anyway. Because we are excited about what we have to offer! Because we don’t want to leave anything out! What I’m talking about is throwing your...
by Clare | Jan 24, 2024 | Competitive Marketing, Marketing Strategy
Your marketing temperature that is. And the best way to do that is with a marketing audit. If the idea of doing an audit for your business or your clients’ gives you a migraine I get it! Especially as we are staring down tax season. Then again. You do get a health...
by Clare | Nov 1, 2023 | Competitive Marketing, Content Marketing, Growth Plans, Growth Strategies, Marketing Strategy
It’s November. 2024 just around the corner. That’s goal setting time for many businesses. So here’s the question: Has your annual goal setting exercise begun to look like those New Year’s resolutions? You know the ones where you resolve to exercise three times a week...
by Clare | Oct 25, 2023 | Competitive Marketing, Content Marketing, Marketing Strategy
You know your clients need business, marketing and sales strategies. You want to give it to them. But they’re not buying it. They just want you to produce results – quickly!! You can recite the old bromides till you are blue in the face. You know them: Fail to plan,...
by Clare | Sep 13, 2023 | Competitive Marketing, Customer Acquistion, Marketing Strategy
Most everything in my kitchen came from Bed Bath & Beyond. Everyone shopped there. My sister ran into Barbara Streisand shopping at one in LA. A visit to the Bed Bath at the Galleria in Roseville, CA at Christmas was a delight. The store shone with holiday magic....
by Clare | Sep 9, 2023 | Competitive Marketing, Content Marketing, Marketing Strategy
Right People. Right Seats. First popularized by Jim Collins author of Good to Great, the term means that the power in any organization is having the people best suited for the role in the role. And the power of right people, right seats goes well beyond just their...