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What a Stop Smoking Book is Teaching Me About People

June 29, 2010

As you learn the art of mar­ket­ing and sales, you’ll soon start notic­ing things about peo­ple as well. Learn­ing how peo­ple feel and think is very ben­e­fi­cial to becom­ing bet­ter at mar­ket­ing. At it’s heart, mar­ket­ing is a peo­ple busi­ness. If you learn their fears and wor­ries and you have a way to solve that, […]

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Is It Really Worth it to Always Be Accessible? How About Not Accessible?

June 22, 2010

Tech­nol­ogy has come leaps and bounds over the last few years. There is some­thing to make every­thing you can think of more con­ve­nient and some things you may not have thought of. Being acces­si­ble is impor­tant for mar­ket­ing as well. And, again, with today’s tech­nol­ogy, you can be acces­si­ble all the time. If some­one needs […]

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Need a Change of Pace? 6 Interesting Blogs to Take You Out of the Norm

June 17, 2010

Every once in awhile we may get a lit­tle tired of our cur­rent affairs. If you are con­stantly work­ing with the same sub­ject your brain is going to get bored. It will get stale and try­ing to con­tinue your work is going to make it that much harder to do. I find it’s impor­tant to do […]

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What I Have Learned From 200 Posts and Counting

June 14, 2010

This post right here makes num­ber 200. I thought it would be some­thing to bring up as it’s been quite the jour­ney. It’s inter­est­ing to see how my goals and vision for this blog have changed. And it’s inter­est­ing to see what hasn’t changed. The ideals and beliefs of this blog have stayed the same, […]

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The OMV Weekly Retweet Roundup June 13th

June 13, 2010

A bit of a short but rather inter­est­ing roundup this week. It seems like every­one was get­ting a lit­tle per­sonal in some fash­ion this week. Very insight­ful. I still love how there is a kind of theme across the blo­gosh­pere. Enjoy and sug­ges­tions are always wel­come of course. My Top 3 Posts Can You Learn How […]

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How to Make Your Business Stand Out Like Jeff Dunham

June 11, 2010

Awhile back I wrote a post about tak­ing that extra step to stand out from the crowd. Basi­cally it comes down to the fact that one sim­ple lit­tle change can make you and/or your busi­ness stand out from every­one else. Even if your offer­ing the same thing. Jeff Dun­ham has done just that with his […]

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What Does Composing Music Have to Do With Marketing?

June 10, 2010

I’ve men­tioned before how lessons in life can be applied to mar­ket­ing and busi­ness as well as how lessons in mar­ket­ing can be applied to life. Once again I’ve run into this cross­road. I’ve always had a par­tic­u­lar pas­sion for music. I’ve lis­tened to it all my life and have been around it when people […]

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The OMV Weekly Retweet Roundup June 6th

June 6, 2010

A pretty inter­est­ing roundup this week. It seems a tide of change is com­ing where it con­cerns the idea of SEO. There are quite a few posts lately cov­er­ing this topic. There is a lot of social media and mar­ket­ing posts this week it seems. What are your thoughts? My Top 3 Posts Why SEO is […]

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Learning How to Brag Without Sounding Like a Jerk

June 4, 2010

One thing that I have learned since I started learn­ing about mar­ket­ing is that being able to brag is a good thing. To a degree any­ways. There are plenty of places to “toot your own horn”, such as your bio, in an adver­tise­ment, or in the resource box for your arti­cle, to name a few. […]

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4 Ways to Re-Evaluate Your Business (part 2)

June 2, 2010

Yes­ter­day I started a post of 4 ways to re-evaluate your busi­ness. This is part 2 of that and if you haven’t read part one yet, click here. Yes­ter­day we went over check­ing both your expenses and your tasks and nar­row­ing them down to what you really need to run your busi­ness and get­ting rid […]

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