with Neil Godin If you’re located in the Metro Vancouver area, pull your chair in a little closer…I have something important to tell you. (If you’re not located here, listen anyway, because you may want to forward this to a business owner you know who does live here – and you may want to hear [...]
with Neil Godin I’m preparing. To conduct a workshop on customer service telephone skills. For the good people who staff the registrar’s office at a local college. And I’m puzzled. I’m puzzled because I still don’t understand a mindset – among both front line staff – and among management at all levels – that mentally, [...]
with Neil Godin I love the outrageous – and the erroneous – in advertising. So. Every now and then I do a Google search for things like “Outrageous billboards,” and “Ad Bloopers.” Just for fun. How much fun? Try these: Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: “Nothing sucks like an [...]
with Neil Godin His name is Chris Ridout. He’s the owner of Zoomer Yoga in Coquitlam, BC. You’ve never heard of him. And neither have I. But. Chris is using a marketing strategy that’s as old as the hills (and as new as tomorrow) to guarantee that a lot more people will have heard of [...]
with Neil Godin An email. From Marketing Dangerously member Len McCormick. With tongue firmly in cheek he writes: “Here are some marketers who know all about getting the message out. They obviously also don’t have any signage restrictions. Perhaps we should lobby politicians for changes that will ensure all of our streets can be this vibrant?” Len [...]
with Neil Godin Driving. On my way to work with one of my favorite clients. M&R Environmental. Here in (beautiful) Burnaby, BC. When my car came to a sudden stop. On its own (I swear). And then swerved toward the curb. And then parked. All by itself. Just so I could get out and take [...]