by Jeff Slater | May 25, 2015 | Marketing Advice
Every day I write down several ideas for new businesses. It keeps my creative brand in shape just like others go to the gym to work out their abs. My kids will attest to our dinner table conversation when they were little when I’d asked them to create a new...
by Jeff Slater | May 22, 2015 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
I had a request for marketing advice from a budding entrepreneur who wanted to start a restaurant. He loved to cook and was excited about the challenge. But he knew he had to think about the marketing of the business before he sautéed his first shitake mushroom. He...
by Jeff Slater | May 20, 2015 | Marketing Advice, Marketing People
How are you being helpful to your clients and customers? Is your marketing philosophy focused on being useful and solving their problems or is it focused on your internal needs as a business? The helpful marketer knows that when you provide value to customers,...
by Jeff Slater | May 18, 2015 | Interesting Brands, Marketing Advice
In two separate conversations this past week, I was asked for advice about product names by two food companies. Both businesses are either new or in turn around mode, and are thinking how the right brand name can be a part an effective part of their marketing...
by Jeff Slater | May 15, 2015 | Marketing Advice, Marketing Books, Marketing People
When you blog, you get a daily email that informs you that someone has subscribed or unsubscribed to receiving your email posts. For a long time, I would cringe when I saw that someone wanted to stop reading my work or hearing my ideas. Recently it became clearer to...
by Jeff Slater | May 13, 2015 | Marketing Advice, Marketing People, Personal Stories
When I worked for for a software company, I was fortunate to have on my team a woman, Kristi Lee-John who was an outstanding public relations professional. Today Kristi owns and operates a successful PR firm in Raleigh called Crossroads. I learned quite a lot from...
