Today, I want to ask you a question. That question is, what is more fascinating, interesting, and important on social media? Is it engagement, or is it education? I saw this post from one of my friends, Ally, on LinkedIn, and it was about quotes from content experts. One of the people quoted in there…
In my last Bacon Podcast Interview, episode 469, I had the pleasure to interview Jane Atkinson. Now, Jane is a speaking coach, and a very successful one at that. If you haven’t listened to it, I strongly suggest you do so, whether you plan to speak or not. In the middle of the interview, we…
So, this year (2018) is winding down and the New Year (2019) is screaming at us, saying, “Get ready, get ready!” Hopefully, you have some time to kinda chillax over the holidays. Well, in this post, I want to try to get you to think about some of the things you can do to get…
Out Of Gas Today, I want to talk about mowing your lawn. Now, if you don’t own a home you probably don’t mow your lawn. As a matter of fact, I do own a home, and I don’t mow my lawn. I pay somebody to come and do it for me. What often happens when…
Once again, we’re digging deeper into our perfect marketing strategy for your business. This post is about social proof. What I’m really talking about is social media. It Starts At Home You can have a story, but a story in a box does no good. Nobody sees it, nobody interacts with it, so having a…
Buddy Guy – The Dog Let me tell you a quick story. About six years ago or so, we adopted a dog. We posted a picture of up on Facebook so people could name him, and they named him Buddy Guy. He’s around 100 pounds, a Black Lab, and I’m a Blues player, so it…
Past vs New Customers We’re in this series called What Is The Perfect Marketing Strategy For Your Business? For this third part, and we’re going to be talking about targeting new customers. Hopefully, you listened to the last one where we talked about examining your past customers. So what we want to look at is:…
Your Perfect Marketing Strategy This is the beginning of an eight-part blog and podcast series, and I’m going to cover the overarching topic of “What is the Perfect Marketing Strategy For Your Business?” The reason it’s eight parts is that I’m going to give you a broad brush overview today and then dig into greater…
How Do You Spend Your Time? So let me ask you a question. What did you do with your 168 hours, 10,000 minutes, or 600,000 seconds last week? Chances are you’re like most of us: you spent 1/3 of it working, 1/3 of it sleeping, and 1/3 on everything else. We all have the same…
I want to talk about social media. More precisely, your social media. The question I have to ask is, why does anybody care what you have to say on social media anymore? And the real question is, do they? Well, yeah, they do. Well, some people do and some people don’t. The ones who identify…