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.

The Holy Grail

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When properly executed, minimum-elements ads are the most irresistible and emotionally satisfying experience modern advertising has to offer.

What are you sneezing about?

From time to time, first-time readers will ask about the origin of the name sneezr.’ Here’s the short answer: Sneezing is usually a vivid continue reading

What kind of marketing is the most effective?

Have you ever asked yourself the above question?

I did. In fact, many years ago I spent countless hours trying to figure it out.

The answer turned out continue reading

Jerry Seinfeld’s secret.

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A. He crafts great stories people can step into.
B. He seems to prefer long-term thinking to flavor-of-the-month continue reading

Simpler = easier to market.

The simpler the better.
Think Facebook. One of Mark Zuckerberg’s most genius moves? Nudging the idea into the heads of hundreds of millions continue reading

What can Peter Thiel teach you about business?

zo“In Silicon Valley, nerds are skeptical of advertising, marketing, and sales because they seem superficial and irrational. But advertising continue reading

It is by dreaming first that we get to new realities

Today’s story began yesterday. A friend of mine invited me for coffee at a local Starbucks. During our conversation, he mentioned that one of his kids is considering entrepreneurship continue reading

What’s poetry?

What’s poetry if not simplification of thought, which, when done right, is both beautiful and extremly powerful.

How progress begins

If you’re trying to help someone, you can’t be thinking like them.
If they want to see different results, your thinking better be different than theirs.

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Is shout finally out?

Facts can almost be irrelevant. What matters is how they are presented.

So what do I do if I need to present some facts? continue reading