by Jeff Slater | Sep 1, 2019 | Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups
Getting noticed by an audience keeps getting more difficult every year. There are only a few ways where marketers can get someone to pay attention to a message. And the critical word is PAY because attention is in limited supply. To get someone to listen, read or...
by Jeff Slater | Aug 25, 2019 | Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups
Lemonade insurance has stirred things up and is disrupting an industry. Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger squeezed a lot of the inefficiency out of the insurance property business to make Lemonade. Lemonade is the name of their insurance company that took a radically...
by Jeff Slater | Aug 8, 2019 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Start Ups
Frequently businesses are started by two people who complement each other’s skills. As a result, they may be friends or business associates but finding someone to work with allows the burden of starting a company to be shared. When my wife and I started working...
by Jeff Slater | Jul 16, 2019 | Marketing Advice, Marketing People, Marketing Start Ups
This is a guest post by Lucy Reed from GigMine who knows quite a lot about marketing, Amazon and how to find jobs in the gig economy. When you start in e-commerce, it is easy to get overwhelmed by your competitors. There is, however, room for the little guy in...
by Jeff Slater | Jul 4, 2019 | Foodpreneurs, Marketing Start Ups
If your business has competitors who make products just like everyone else, how will anyone notice you? What’s makes your products different? What story can people tell about your “hot dog” versus everyone else? Imagine round hot dogs. Consider the conversations and...
by Jeff Slater | Jun 30, 2019 | Marketing Advice, Marketing Start Ups
Simon’s business was founded four years ago to focus on an industry he knew well having worked in it for more than a decade. As an IT professional, he thought he understood their challenges through his experiences and the work he did every day. His business exposure...