The Late Night Talk Show Wars Marketing Lesson

So much for posting here more regularly.    The funny part of it is, I actually DID start writing more, I’ve just sold old my good ideas.

But back to fulfilling the promise of the subject line, I’m sure that now that Conan is off the air, a lot of the hubbub will die down.  But one of the most significant things I observed during last week’s scandal and turmoil over the NBC Tonight Show Host gig, is that NO ONE CARED until there was a villain.

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10 Marketing Lessons I Learned from Super Mario Bros.

My resolution for the new year was to post here at least once a week, and I’m already down by one. 

Time to fix that.   Here’s something I actually wrote one afternoon during the holidays, and never did get around to posting.  I guess the point of it is, if you’re stuck, you can find inspiration for your marketing anywhere you look.  And in fact, cultivating this “holistic” approach will help make sure you never get stuck again.

So here we go: 10 Marketing (and business) Lessons I learned Playing Super Mario Bros.

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Supernatural Email Marketing Mojo

I posted a reply to this thread over on the WarriorForum earlier, and I thought it was good enough to go back to and edit there, so I figured it’s got to be good enough to post here.   After all, it’s been a little while without content, and that makes me a bad blogger.

Originally Posted By winebuddy: I was just going through one of my student’s followup emails and what I found is something that I think will help a lot of warriors.

The noobie was attempting to put all of his content in the followup email itself. That, in my book, is a big no no.

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