Category Archives: Customers

5 Tips to Stop Annoying People with Social Media

5 Tips to Stop Annoying People with Social Media

At first, I was going to write something today like 5 Tips to Market with Social Media – then I realized that’s not the problem.  The problem is….most social media annoys the crap out of people.  So today, this  is a serious look into social media marketing for small businesses.  In which I’ll call….are you… Read more

10 Tips & Tools to Market a Small Business

10 Tips & Tools to Market a Small Business

10 Tips & Tools to Market a Small Business A business well started should be well marketed too. Only a well marketed business can bring in the expected returns.  If you’re an entrepreneur who’s taken the big leap towards starting a business after years of speculation, you need to move now and move fast. You’re… Read more

How to Market a Service Based Business

How to Market a Service Based Business

How to market a service is much more different than how you market a product.  But luckily, it can be much easier, and can cost much less.  Here are some simple steps to help you get started marketing your service based business: Start Your Service Niche Who are you?  What’s the one thing you do… Read more

Why Customers Hold the Key to Your Brand

Why Customers Hold the Key to Your Brand

Typically, a brand is an intrinsic representation of you, your company and how you want the target market you’re addressing to view you or your company! It describes (or should describe) your values to the core. How do you position your brand after all? How do you make it stand strong in front of a… Read more

How to Brand a Product

How to Brand a Product

Out of all the things you do when you build a product, how to brand a product is the best part.  And when you brand a product, it’s all about innovation, creativity, love for your customer, and paying attention to what they really want. How to Brand a Product 1. Start with the Customer Getting… Read more

Getting Creative with Startup Marketing!

Getting Creative with Startup Marketing!

Marketers market a business. Maintenance marketing, we’ll call it. A startup founder has to market a startup. Traction marketing, we call this.  It’s creating traction.  Creating initial traction requires you to be smooth, cool, creative, imaginative, and takes a ton of energy. Kinda hard to pay a marketer (the good one’s are expensive), when you… Read more

How to Brand a Startup

How to Brand a Startup

What’s wrong with the startup brand in the above picture? He’s boring. He sucks. He has no brand. He has no excitement. No passion…. Read more

The Secret to Customer Insight

The trick to building a better business model based on your customer, is customer insight.  Great companies and brands are among the few who truly dedicate their time and energy to learning about their customer: customer empathy, customer appeal, and the relationship between you & your customer. As a start up, your product should evoke emotion within… Read more

5 Tips to Communicate with Customers

5 Tips to Communicate with Customers

Direct communications with customers can be a valuable component of any marketing strategy.  How your customers respond to your business, and what they think of you, is directly influended by your communications. Direct communications build relationships with your customers, letting them get to know your business and brand on a personal level. Here are 5… Read more

Customer Segments in the Real World

Have you ever filled out an angel’s application and it asks for your customer segments? If you have, I’m going to tell you what the heck it is, and how to do that. I’ll start by defining customer segments. Customer Segments are groups of people that your business will target. There’s different ways you can… Read more