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Do You Qualify for a Profile in Courage Award? We Sure Didn’t.

This is the story of how we lost an account. It was a painful lesson, but one that’s worth reading whether you’re an agency, vendor or advisor—really, anyone who’s invested in the ...

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Jun 1, 2017
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Do You Qualify for a Profile in Courage Award? We Sure Didn’t.

This is the story of how we lost an account. It was a painful lesson, but one that’s worth reading whether you’re an agency, vendor or advis...

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May 18, 2017
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Does Your Team Share a Vision—Or Just Office Space?

Why did you go originally into business with your partners? And as a follow up: how long did it take you to think of an answer to that quest...

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May 11, 2017
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How to Open Your Own Ghostbusting Business

If you want to build your business, become a Ghostbuster. I’m not referring to the movie, exactly (I didn’t even see the sequel.) I’m talkin...

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May 4, 2017
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If You Want to Make It Over the Long Haul, Put Your Marketing On Autopilot

As I said in my earlier post, some advisors are running on empty—and don’t even know it yet. They might be cruising smoothly for now. But if...

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Apr 27, 2017
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Do You Really Have Enough Prospects to Sustain Your Business?

There’s a looming marketing crisis the industry isn’t acknowledging. I encourage you to pay attention to it so that you can maintain sustain...

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Apr 20, 2017
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Simple Sells

The financial industry overcomplicates things. Marketers across the industry will sympathize with me, we’ve all seen firms take more than a ...

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