by Jeff Slater | Jan 27, 2016 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
The company I work for uses a travel agency to help us schedule flights and leverage some volume purchasing. This past week, I had to rebook my flights back from Germany to the U.S. due to the big storm on the east coast. Had I called the carrier (American), I...
by Jeff Slater | Jan 25, 2016 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
When you are trying to push for real change and progress in an organization, you need to get beyond your comfort zone. We marketers tend to enjoy staying in a warm, cappuccino-like risk-free zone. In a recent offsite meeting, the company I work for did exactly this...
by Jeff Slater | Jan 11, 2016 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups, Personal Stories
Do you keep asking the same question every day to understand a problem? Tony Xu does. His business, Door Dash is a foodie’s dream – to allow you to get food delivered to your home or office. Think Uber meets restaurants. He worries how to keep the ice cream cold...
by Jeff Slater | Dec 21, 2015 | Marketing Advice, Personal Stories
Did you Achieve Your Goals in 2015? You start each year with unbridled enthusiasm and a game plan. 2015 was the year you expected to take share from your competitors or enter a new market. You had many new products that your team introduced and a spanking new ad...
by Jeff Slater | Dec 11, 2015 | Foodpreneurs, Interesting Brands, Marketing Advice, Marketing People, Marketing Start Ups, Personal Stories
I didn’t plan on becoming a foodpreneur in the 1970’s. It wasn’t as if I leaped out of bed one morning and decided to make brownies for a living. My wife had started selling homemade brownies to the local stores in Philadelphia. I helped her out while focusing on...
by Jeff Slater | Dec 9, 2015 | Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups, Personal Stories
As an experiment, I signed up for several different email newsletters and blogs, to see how various marketing experts treat me. How often do they send me relationship building stuff or opportunities to learn for free — versus how quickly do they get into selling...
