The Marketing Funnel using Six Sigma DMAIC

If you search Google, there are 88,800 thousand images for the marketing funnel and 38,100 for the marketing hourglass depicted. All having a little different twist going from the Duct Tape Marketing Know, Like and Trust to the Awareness, Consider, Prefer and more. All of them depicting a systematic way to go from initial contact Read More …

Have you ever forgotten the obvious – Duct Tape Marketing

Have you ever forgotten the obvious? I do not believe that I have ever featured Duct Tape Marketing: (The World’s Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide) Book on my blog. It has sold over 50,000 copies in hardback, paperback and Kindle editions and has been translated into Croat, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish and Read More …

Social Media is here to stay, be ready by the 1st of the year!

IF YOU WANT TO BE ONLINE, YOU NEED TO LEARN ONLINE Social media is all the rage and it’s here to stay. Maybe you’ve heard about it; maybe you’ve embraced it. Ultimately, it’s important that you understand how to use and integrate social media. Need help sorting it all out? This innovative coaching program uses Read More …

Steps to creating your Need Statement

The other day, I discussed Your Marketing Vision should define your Customer’s Core Problem, but how do you go about doing it. A simple exercise that I found useful was depicted in the book: True Purpose: 12 Strategies for Discovering the Difference You Are Meant to Makeby Tim Kelly. In the book, he discusses 12 Read More …

Your Marketing Vision should define your Customer’s Core Problem

Today’s products and services reflect greater marketing segmentation. As you know, I use the Duct Tape Marketing Hourglass as The Pillar of the Lean Marketing House™ but there is no universal terminology, it is just convenient to stay with one message because even as you segment your list you still have to recognize the marketing Read More …