3 Tips for Branding Your Customer Experience

The customer experience is a hot topic in business circles these days. I find that interesting because understanding, orchestrating, and naming that experience has always been smart marketing. Once again, Sem London is new again. In many ways your process for delivering exceptional customer experiences is your business brand. The challenge is packaging it in […]

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Business Storytelling: How to Overcome Your Writing Demons

This is Episode 15 of This Old New Business weekly business podcast with Jeff Korhan. In this 15th episode of This Old New Business we are taking a departure from our traditional interview format. This gives you the opportunity to learn from my journey as I share business storytelling tips and better practices for improving your content marketing […]

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LinkedIn Influence: How to Build a Profitable Digital Presence

This is Episode 14 of This Old New Business weekly business podcast with Jeff Korhan. Are you overwhelmed with digital and social media? Then maybe you need a fresh approach. In this episode Stephanie Sammons shares her secrets for establishing your LinkedIn influence, while also building a profitable digital presence across every other social media channel that makes sense […]

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How Storytelling Grows Your Social Media Audience

Are your social media profiles glorified resumes, or do they tell people what they really want to know – who you are and why they should care about you and your business? In addition to technology changing, everything about people and business is changing too. This means your social media has to meet new expectations. […]

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How to Be Famous for Your Business Content

As a marketer you no doubt are familiar with the expression “Content is King” – but do you know who is credited with first coining it? I posed that question to my audience at a recent content marketing conference here in Chicago. To my surprise, nobody knew the answer. While it is sometimes disputed, Bill […]

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4 Pillars of Online Marketing Success

Too many businesses are overwhelmed with social media, and for good reason. Even those with abundant resources cannot manage all of the major social media channels well. Facebook advertising alone is a major undertaking. If you narrow your focus to one or two channels, then it’s only a matter of building the discipline of doing […]

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Customer Experience: How to Use Social Media to be Amazingly Helpful

This is Episode 11 of This Old New Business weekly business podcast with Jeff Korhan. In addition to being a Hall of Fame Speaker, Shep Hyken is renowned as one of the leading customer service experts in the world — and with next week being National Customer Service week, it’s timely that we are now having him on […]

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Your Business Story is Marketing

Your story is who you are, and the same holds true for your business. The question is how much attention does your business dedicate to what is arguably its most powerful marketing? Tell a True Story Ann Handley, author of Everybody Writes says, “What matters now is telling a true story well.” The truth has […]

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Micro-Business Economy: The Future of Social Media for Employers

This is Episode 10 of This Old New Business weekly business podcast with Jeff Korhan. This episode is a powerful glimpse into the future of business and the role social media is going to play in it. When I first learned about Laura’s story I reached out to her because there are not nearly enough case studies that […]

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Grow Your Business Audience Without Google

Depending on leads from sources other than the friends and customers in your business audience is a dangerous plan. You may know that Google recently killed Google Authorship. In a nutshell, this was a feature that allowed authors of original content to share the authority of search results with the sites publishing it. Many of […]

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