by Jeff Slater | Sep 8, 2019 | Interesting Brands, Marketing Advice, Marketing People, Marketing Start Ups
The interview by Guy Raz on NPR’s How I Built This with the founders of LIFE IS GOOD®, was a powerful lesson in how vital it is for emotional connections through taglines and brand names. The stronger the emotional connection, the higher the chance for success. In the...
by Jeff Slater | Sep 3, 2019 | Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups, Personal Stories
A friend of mine is an executive coach. Julia gets hired to work with top leaders in companies to help them manage through difficult situations, challenging problems, and critical junctures in a business’ life. There are many lessons I have learned from Julia, but...
by Jeff Slater | Sep 1, 2019 | Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups
Getting noticed by an audience keeps getting more difficult every year. There are only a few ways where marketers can get someone to pay attention to a message. And the critical word is PAY because attention is in limited supply. To get someone to listen, read or...
by Jeff Slater | Aug 25, 2019 | Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups
Lemonade insurance has stirred things up and is disrupting an industry. Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger squeezed a lot of the inefficiency out of the insurance property business to make Lemonade. Lemonade is the name of their insurance company that took a radically...
by Jeff Slater | Aug 8, 2019 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Start Ups
Frequently businesses are started by two people who complement each other’s skills. As a result, they may be friends or business associates but finding someone to work with allows the burden of starting a company to be shared. When my wife and I started working...
by Jeff Slater | Jul 16, 2019 | Marketing Advice, Marketing People, Marketing Start Ups
This is a guest post by Lucy Reed from GigMine who knows quite a lot about marketing, Amazon and how to find jobs in the gig economy. When you start in e-commerce, it is easy to get overwhelmed by your competitors. There is, however, room for the little guy in...
