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Apps to Help Navigate Social Media for Small Businesses

Long gone are the days when you only had a few social media accounts to worry about. Now there’s an ocean of information and options to choose from....

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How NOT to Use Customer Demographics in Your Marketing

Yes, you read that correctly: How NOT to use customer demographics in your marketing. In an attempt to make research-based marketing decisions, many...

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Green Swag: Tips for Keeping Your Logo Out of the Landfill

Free swag! There's nothing like it to get people's attention at an event ... and there's nothing like that sinking feeling you get when you see those...

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Wake Up Communicators: You need a GDPR checklist and guide

Later this month, on May 25, the GDPR data protection and privacy law goes into effect. GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, is a set of...

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How to Build a Strong Employer Brand for Recruitment

Mission-driven organizations can be surprised to suddenly find themselves struggling with employee recruitment and retention. (Wasn't it just...

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Useful Environmental Paper Certification or Greenwash?

If you’re not alert, it’s easier than ever to be snookered these days. You are trying to reduce your environmental impact and so you specify your new...

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What You Need to Know About Contests & Sweepstakes

Contests and sweepstakes are great ways of generating interest and expanding your reach to a target audience. If you want to increase web traffic,...

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On the Power of Words, Labels and Language: Do No Harm

The power of words, labels, language and frames is often a popular topic at the water cooler and lunch table here, but it has been top-of-mind...

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Storytelling Tools to Help Your Target Audience see WIIFM

Want to gain traction in the early stages of the customer’s journey? Here’s a tip: Step out of your shoes. Your audience wants to interact with...

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The Psychology of Words: Revealing more than you realize

Thoughts on the psychology of words, word use, pronouns, and social issues have been scurrying across my brain lately. Not that you can’t find me...

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Changing Minds: The science behind visual storytelling

Do you feel that? That tugging sensation on your heart? You’re not sure why, but as serious, and as focused, and as grownup as you are, you likely...

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What is the cost of a stunning new website?

I wrote about this last in 2010 when unemployment was near ten percent and competition for work was fierce and cutthroat. And while a lot has changed...

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