by Paul Rose Jr | Sep 8, 2020 | Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Get Strategic, Growth Marketing, Small Business Marketing, Small Business Strategy
So you committed the cardinal sin of marketing… You committed to keeping in regular contact with your past clients, and deeper connect with new ones. But you or someone on your team dropped the ball. Or the person running point on that communication left the company...
by Paul Rose Jr | Sep 1, 2020 | Get Strategic, Small Business Marketing, Small Business Strategy
Years ago, I worked with a TV commercial producer who also wrote and directed some, well, pretty strange, if not awful movies. He made quite a bit of money as an even lower-rent Roger Corman or Troma productions. He would make these films with former teenage TV stars,...
by Paul Rose Jr | Aug 25, 2020 | Get Strategic, Growth Marketing, Small Business Strategy
In the 1930’s, Erik Homberger, a trained Montessori teacher, budding psychoanalyst and patient of Anna Freud (Sigmund’s daughter) brought his family to the United States, changed his name to Erik Erikson, and was offered a teaching position at Harvard. While there,...
by Paul Rose Jr | Aug 18, 2020 | Get Strategic, Growth Marketing, Small Business Strategy
In the 1950’s, when Walt Disney built his first theme park, he wasn’t looking for corporate synergy or to sell merchandise or to make Anaheim a vacation spot. Walt just wanted to capture the spirit and feeling he had as a child, enjoying a carnival. Somewhere parents...
by Paul Rose Jr | Aug 4, 2020 | Best Practices, Content Marketing, Get Strategic, Growth Marketing, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Small Business Marketing, Small Business Strategy
Wow. That title’s a mouthful. And a challenging idea to put out there. The blog post equivalent of social media’s “Controversial opinion:” Will you agree with me on the conclusions I’ll draw by the end of this article? Maybe, maybe not. I’ll tell you, companies that...
by Paul Rose Jr | Jul 28, 2020 | Best Practices, Get Strategic, Growth Marketing, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Marketing Automation, Remarketing/Retargeting, Small Business Marketing, Small Business Strategy, Social Media
Every year around Thanksgiving, my parents go Christmas tree shopping. When we lived in Ohio, we actually cut our own tree. But in Florida, where they live now, there’s no tromping through snow with an axe or tree saw, picking the best Douglas fir, etc. Now they go to...
