What kind of marketing is the most effective?

sneezr.ca Have you ever asked yourself that question? I did. In fact, many years ago I spent countless hours trying to figure it out.
The answer turned out to be quite simple: word of mouth marketing. Or as I call it: the art of cultivating recommendations.

Surprised? Probably not. With recommendations, there is no sales pressure and no credibility issues. When your friends, family members or trusted co-workers recommend something or someone to you, they are genuinely trying to help you. That means a lot, which is why you usually remember it for a long time. But here is the catch: recommendations must be earned. How do you do that? Where do you start? How do you give people a reason to talk about your products/services? How do you nudge your story into every day conversations? I launched sneezr.ca to help you answer those questions.

Why new ideas have lonely childhoods

New ideas, despite everything good one can say about them, have a great weakness: they are dependent on a certain passage of time for effect. Everything continue reading

Want big results? Think small.

As celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay asserts in his autobiography Humble Pie, if you care about the product, you have to care about the whole experience:

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It’s all about just one thing, no?

People are deciding which brands to trust, what advice to follow, and who to forge personal or business relationships with based on one simple metric: Likeability.

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What people truly want from your brand…

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… is for it to make life better.

Unwrapping digital

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“Unwrapping Digital is an easy introduction to thinking about going digital. It appeals to the business person that hasn’t yet adopted continue reading

Do you nurture your giant pumpkin seeds as best you can?

There are lots of interesting analogies about how to grow a business.
One of my all-time favourites comes from a farmer who grows gigantic, prize-winning pumpkins:

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Failure should be a teacher, not an undertaker.

iPod, iPhone, iPad… gifts Steve Jobs gave the world after he was labeled a failure.

What’s so great about being typical?

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Most people are more likely to react to things than be proactive, even if the proactive behavior will lead to better results. So, please refresh continue reading

Quick reminder: we live in the Experience Economy.

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BMW will sell the recently introduced  continue reading

A simple tweak to your website to increase WOM

Add video content to your website. People love video — and you should, too. People tend to stay longer on sites with videos, and are more likely to return.