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Keynote: Winning Market Share

If we look at the world’s most successful B2B businesses – i.e., Microsoft, IBM, Well Fargo, and UPS – there’s one extremely interesting commonality: They target end consumers, not to the businesses they are ultimately prospecting.
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How Marketing Agencies Bring Content Every Day

At the end of the day, we want to bring compelling content to our ideal audience in the places and ways that THEY prefer. 
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In the Golf Business, Why is Big Data So Scary?

What if all this wonderful data was used to deliver value rather than persistent attempts to extract value. If we know so much about our customers, why can't we deliver instructional materials, travel guides, how-to's, surveys to hear their voices, equipment reviews, nutrition advice, sports opinions, whatever...doesn't have to be 100% golf...just helpful stuff that brings them value and indoctrinates them into the ecosystem.
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Why Selling Candy Bars is Nothing Like Selling Houses

I see a lot of companies that are selling $100,000 items like candy bars and it just doesn't work. That's not how people buy things that are more expensive or more “risky”. 
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Win Attention Today: Cross-Pollinate One Audience to Another

You can get the attention in places where you have fun, where you're passionate, and where you love to produce content. Every now and then, just ask your audience if they're interested in some other stuff that you do.
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How to Build Yourself a “Content Machine”

Creating content is hard, but documenting your journey is actually pretty easy. If you've got a system in place, you can roll out tons of informative and compelling content to build brand and audience around whatever you're passionate about. The key is to produce enough of it to stay top of mind and bring any effect.
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The Secret Marketing Formula
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The World’s Greatest Stick Figure Marketing Formula

There's a secret formula that every good marketer needs to follow, or you won't ever achieve the results you're hoping for. It starts with figuring out who your customers are, where they hang out, what kind of "bait" they're interested in, and where you eventually want to take them.
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