Friday's 5 - Marketing Shorts and Sweets

I'm trying to get this post written quickly so I can go spend an hour in the sun today. The days are already getting shorter, back-to-school ads are streaming across the TV and I am feeling the need to get some vitamin D while the getting is good!

Here are my 5 short and sweet marketing treats for you this week:

[READ] 5 Ways to Improve Your Marketing, Immediately
It would be easy to grow this list to be 50 or 100 points long. The point is, there’s no shortage of actions you can implement today to improve your marketing. Here are five actions you can take today to improve your marketing immediately.


[READ] The Zen Way to Build a Successful Business
Studying the ancient wisdom of Zen masters can provide a path to build a successful business. According to Zen philosophy, there are "five fingers" of success that have worked for thousands of years.


[READ] How 5 Companies Used Social Media to Get Found and Get Sales
I especially love the local marketing done by Big Daddy's BBQ – there are some great ideas in this article! “Done is better than perfect.” This is the writing on the wall — the physical wall — at Facebook. Big break winners how they went from social media novices to experts in the making, and lessons learned along the way.


[READ] 7 Things You Never Have to Do
“Love is never having to say you’re sorry.” This phrase originated in the movie Love Story, but has since been modified, satirized, patronized and reorganized in dozens of movies, songs, tv shows and other art forms. Are there other things we never have to do? In business, in life and in love, maybe there’s an entire line of thinking based on this idea.


5 Quotes for (Marketing) Inspiration

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
(William Shakespeare, 1564-1616)

"If you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready."
(Will Smith, 1968 - )

"We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way."
(Alice Waters, 1944 - )

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."
(Billy Wilder)

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring — all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
(Leo Buscaglia)


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Elizabeth Kraus – 12monthsofmarketing.com
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