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 …

Project Management for Marketing

The last several posts have discussed several products and resources for project management. Good project management has to occur throughout your organization to be successful. Your company probably has a great deal of knowledge and is already using a software package for scheduling such as Microsoft Project. I want to reiterate the point I made Read More …

Replacing the Marketing Calendar with Project Management

I believe that many Marketing projects do not conform to good solid project management techniques and practices. It’s not surprising, seldom does anyone invest in the proper training to develop the skills needed. To do list, due dates without properly define scope, and assigning responsibilities does not constitute project management. Scope, Managing Risk, Variation and Read More …

Are you ready to give up your Marketing Calendar?

It’s not working, it’s that simple. You are assigning responsibilities, deadlines and tasks, but it is just a headache to keep up. The most apparent problem: tasks are not getting handed off well or at the wrong time to others. Another problem may be, everyone’s priorities seem all mixed up, and one or two people Read More …

Death of the Marketing Calendar – Part1

Marketing people talk about it all the time, and it must be from the days of buying so much print media, television and radio spots. I have marketing calendars and here is what I have figured out to do with them. Deskpad to take notes. Video on how to create one. Google calendar for my Read More …