Marketing Consulting Blog

Welcome back!This post has been a long time coming, and part of it is my own damn fault. More on that in just a second.
For full disclaimer purposes: stop reading this post if you believe you should not pay for someone else’s hard earned knowledge or skills or that everything informational ought to be free [...]

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Yesterday, I sent many of you a link to a brief real estate marketing survey.  I’ve gotten some responses, and there is a consensus on a few items.
The most “alarming” is that no one who responded is happy with what they’re getting out of their business.  Furthermore, 75% are not generating enough income to support [...]

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I just placed a pizza order to be delivered by Domino’s at 5:30 PM.  Their fancy order tracker (which I think is pretty cool, but I’m not sure this is what they had in mind) informed me that the pizza was baked and put into a box at 5:40 PM.  At 6:04, it informed me [...]

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I neglected to elaborate on the “bad client” story as mentioned earlier in the week so here are some of the things I learned from a recent client relationship that went bad in a hurry in spite of my gut telling me to avoid it all costs at the outset. Oh well, live and [...]

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Ever had one of those days where you question whether you’ve made wise business choices lately? Today has been one of those days, but I’m afraid the answers I uncover over the next few weeks aren’t going to be to my liking. I know I violated my own gut instincts with one decision [...]

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Since I’ve been on a good vs. bad kick lately with TV ads, what is your opinion of the Cadillac spot featuring Kate Walsh? Good or bad?

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There are several poorly written articles circling the bowl on a daily basis, and this may end up being yet another one, but it’s alarming to me that professional journalists consistently botch spelling and grammar. It used to be newspapers, magazines, and books served as an example of the proper use of punctuation, word [...]

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