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Brandishing a Red Hot Poker: Getting Attention in Hyper-Distracted Markets

Doesn’t matter what market you’re in, you’ll always be competing for the attention of your prospects and customers. They’ve got a million things going on… oh, and they just got distracted by thing number million and one. (Was it a new email, a text message, an IM on Skype, an incoming tweet? Whatever it was, […]

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Summer in the Rockies

Sorry I haven’t posted any new articles lately. I’ve actually been quite busy with client work… and trying to squeeze in a little vacation time (a rare thing for me). Last weekend, my wife and I went up to Copper Mountain (a ski resort west of Denver) and stayed a whole 3 nights — without […]

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Brandwashed

You might wonder why I asked you to tell me your favorite brands a couple weeks ago. The reason I did this was to prove a point: brands are powerful. In a world of information overload, brands are even more important. They give us a decision shortcut — a way to side-step all the choices […]

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