by Jeff Slater | Jan 6, 2018 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
On Monday, January 8, 2018, at 8 PM, my daughter Fanny will be on the Cooking Channel’s top show called THE BEST THING I EVER ATE. The episode is all about Life Changers. I’m a little excited! She will tell the story about Wilmington’s premier restaurant called...
by Jeff Slater | Jan 3, 2018 | Marketing Advice, Marketing People
If your company is so convinced that it is exceptional, where is your wild and crazy guarantee? How can you stand out from the crowd by taking away the risk of working with you? Companies love to talk about how good they are at what they do. We are the best at this or...
by Jeff Slater | Jan 1, 2018 | Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups
How will you start the new year? We often think the best place to start our work is at the beginning. With everything in place, we can hit the start button and begin. We venture on a logical path forward knocking out each task and action item. Often, the best place to...
by Jeff Slater | Dec 27, 2017 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
On August 8, 2010, I started to blog about marketing. My first post was about vacuuming and how an ordinary activity can have an emotional connection. Since that date, I have written 865 posts mostly focused on marketing topics. Almost a half a million words later, I...
by Jeff Slater | Dec 25, 2017 | Advertising, Branding Issues, Marketing Advice
If you are marketing a product, service, brand or company in 2018, the following are tips that can help you succeed. These ideas come from years of marketing experiences from B2B and B2C marketing everything from brownies to business software. The following is...
by Jeff Slater | Dec 21, 2017 | Branding Issues, Interesting Brands, Marketing Advice
One of marketings job is to help a company tell their vision story to colleagues and associates. Where is a company going, what is the journey they are on and what is a picture that helps tell that story? Picking the right metaphor matters. It should connect and pull...
