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.

What branding is and is not

Branding is about helping people remember why they should give a business the attention it deserves.

Branding is not something you can simply acquire continue reading

Who wants what you’ve got?

Emotion is the mother of action.
Human beings tend to move when their emotions are moved. And this is especially true for those born continue reading

Being “connected’ is no protection against being wrong

This is a somewhat embarrassing story, so I hesitated to tell you about it for a long time.
But, since I feel it contains a helpful idea, I am telling you now.

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Do you?

Brands that people love don’t spend their advertising dollars training their customers to wait for a sale.
Do you?

What are your ads about?

The best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his/her life. What are your ads about?

Say it ain’t so

Is your online presence less human than you are?

Where does the wallet go?

Engage the imagination. Where the mind has repeatedly journeyed, the wallet will surely follow. :)

Less, but better.

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What’s more popular than social media?

Email is more popular than social media. It also provides the most direct and personal digital line of communication for turning leads into sales, which continue reading

Poorly designed in China

Car Magazine is one of my favourite magazines. (Britain’s oldest monthly motoring magazine.)
The magazine is renowned continue reading