Category Archives: marketing

Life Is Good

Just getting caught up on a few odds and ends…. Life is very exciting right now. We’ve just come through an amazing political campaign creating brand, web, social media, advertising and mail components for John Kolk running in the nomination … Continue reading

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Where Does Your Marketing Start?

At our firm, we are knee-deep in a couple of really fascinating marketing projects right now and, as usual, every client situation still presents opportunities to learn even though I have been working in marketing for close to 20 years.  … Continue reading

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I Love Mondays

And I love Wizard of Ads guru Roy H. Williams for his brilliant insights on marketing and human behavior. From Roy, here is this week’s Monday Morning Memo: Relevance, Real-evance, Relate-evence Relevance has always been an important part of effective … Continue reading

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Do You Have Bad Client Radar?

Interesting article from Cliff Ennico: “What can I do to weed out my bad clients and focus all my attention on clients that are worth having?” There is no law I’m aware of saying you must take every client who … Continue reading

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Who’s Actually Running The Show Around Here?

One of my favourite Monday Morning quotes from Wizard of Ads founder and marketing genius  Roy H. Williams…. “That’s enough rambling for one Monday morning. Now go look Today in the eyes, smile sweetly and say, “I own you. You’re … Continue reading

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Finding Unexpected Heart Under the Hood

I have long been a fan (and client) of the Harold’s Auto Service team. As a single woman for many years, I have counted on Harold’s Auto to take care of the several cars, all different makes and models, that … Continue reading

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M M M and Ms. Moon

From Roy H. Williams Monday Morning Memo: The wonderfully insightful and irreverent Ms. Moon also gives us this marvelous AntiCreativity Checklist from her book Different “For People Who Want Nothing To Do with Pie-In-The-Sky Innovation, Crazy Flights of Imagination, or … Continue reading

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Some of My Favorite People

My firm doesn’t do a lot of straight web design but occasionally I will help out a friend who just needs a simple site put together fairly quickly. This was the case with my friend Georgina Knitel who wanted to … Continue reading

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Celebrate!

Congratulations to all the southern Alberta businesses and organizations who have been nominated for the Lethbridge Chamber Business of the Year awards coming up during Small Business Week October 17th through 23rd!  Here are a few of them: Astro Insurance … Continue reading

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What is Your True Value As a Woman in Business?

Our Lethbridge EWI chapter is very excited to host marketing and communications strategist Allen Gibson to speak to us about the changing roles of women in the new millennium; first from the perspectives of business and marketing but also within … Continue reading

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