The Trouble With Tautology

Do you know what the word “tautology” means? Wikipedia says: Tautology: using different words to say the same thing, or a series of self-reinforcing statements that cannot be disproved because they depend on the assumption that they are already correct. Good examples...

Your Brand Is Not About You.

Seven or eight years ago I found myself running into the same predicament over and over again. Our advertising agency would present our branding and marketing concepts to our clients and they would want objective assurances that our ideas would work. Although we were...

How To Sell The Dream.

My father was an innovative and very successful real estate developer. The Miami Herald called him “The Father of Florida Condominiums” because he built the first residential condo in the United States and the first office condo in the world. As a kid, I used to walk...

Nobody Cares About Your Newsletter.

Each day I get more than one hundred emails with titles like these:What’s Happening This Week at Shmegegge Meshuganah & Putz The XYZ Corporation’s Monthly Update, and MBHSCBA Newsletter – November 12, 2012 They went directly into my deleted spam file right...

3 Cheap Ways To Build Your Brand (Or Become Mayor).

A partner in a successful medical services company had a problem. Her business was undergoing a number of new competitive challenges as larger, national businesses had begun to market to her clients. Worse, they were offering genericized services at significantly...
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