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1 - Learning to Fail
2 - 3 Steps to Great Copy
3 - What Becomes a Brand Most?
4 - Serial Storytelling: Email Marketing's Missing Link
5 - The New Rules for Direct Marketing
6 - A Question of Value
7 - Dear Tig: Fibs Managers Tell, Sexual Harassment and Too-Many-Meetings Dysfunction
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- Learning to Fail
Products
fail. Services fail. Even websites fail. This is especially true for technology-based
products. The solution? Manufacturing issue-free products is a noble idea, but
a very unrealistic one.
A better approach
is to understand how your customers deal with product and service failures, to
ensure they are happy and satisfied even when the unthinkable happens. Learning
to fail with grace is the key.
Learn how here. |
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- 3 Steps to Great Copy
To say a writer could write good copy simply by having access to exact words suggests that having access to Picasso's *exact* set of brushes and paints would beget a great masterpiece.
The formula is
more complex, of course. But there are some simple steps which, when taken in
the right sequence, can improve your copy.
Read
those steps here.
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- What Becomes a Brand Most?
Many assume that in order to brand your product or service, you must advertise. But -- not true. Many brands have grown and thrived without advertising: Krispy Kreme, Starbucks, and Pret A Manger, for example.
How?
Get the skinny on branding without advertising here. |
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- Serial Storytelling: Email Marketing's Missing Link
The art of serial storytelling has existed since the dawn of time as an effective means of communicating ongoing information to an audience. More recently, it's taken root in TV -- where we tune in to The Sopranos or Six Feet Under each week to watch the story unfold.
There are some valuable lessons in the art form that can also apply to email marketing.
Read
how here.
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- A Question of Value
Forget the spin and Dilbert-speak. What does it *really* mean to "value-add"? How do you define value? How do you know if you're successfully adding it? And what do you do to response to the values that are changing and/or migrating?
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- Dear Tig: Fibs Managers Tell, Sexual Harassment and Too-Many-Meetings Dysfunction
In his debut weekly column, Tig Tillinghast fields questions from and for marketers. This week, Tig advises a chased (but chaste) media seller, exposes the fibs managers sometimes tell, and suggests coping skills for those tortured by endless meetings.
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Tig's advice here. |
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