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I was looking in the newspaper the other day, and my eyes ran across an advertisement for dental implants. Normally, I don’t pay much attention to the ads, but this one stopped me in my tracks. Unfortunately, not because it was a good one. After looking at it for a couple of minutes in shock, I [...]

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The difficulty of consistent marketing

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

John Jantsch asked his readers today to answer 2 questions: What is the easiest part of marketing? What is the hardest part of marketing? And it got me thinking…
I would have to say:
1. The hardest part of marketing is doing it on a consistent basis.
2. The easiest part of marketing is doing it on a consistent [...]

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Come meet the Tornado Marketing Team

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Tonight and tomorrow Adrianne Machina and Kirsten Wright from Tornado Marketing will be presenting at two Small Business Meetups in the Orange County / Irvine area. For the last week we have been prepping our material, planning our presentations and getting very excited! After the meetings, our presentations will be available to request on our Tornado [...]

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Make Your Small Business Rule!

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I spent Friday and Saturday drinking in the wisdom of Christina Comaford-Lynch, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Alex Mandossian and many other great minds who presented and attended the “Rules for Renegades Summit.“ My brain was completely on overload by the end.  So many great ideas.  So practical.  So meaty.  I’m so excited put these great ideas into action to [...]

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So….what’s your marketing story?

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Today only!
Get your marketing story written by the award winning director, George Lucas. He will work with you to learn about your company, develop a killer hook and craft a story worthy of the big screen.

Ok, so George Lucas isn’t really offering to write your marketing story or turn it into a movie. But, that doesn’t [...]

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I have a low tolerance for PITA clients. Do you know what a PITA is? PITA is an acronym for a Pain In The Ah-hem. Want the recipe for getting rid of PITA clients? Listen closely now….
You fire them.
Shocking, eh? Someone wants to pay YOU money, and you say, “No thanks!” Because the truth is [...]

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Last week, I wrote a post asking whether or not you would attend a Saturday mixer/networking event. I also posted the question up to Linkedin. It has been closed, but I wanted to talk a little about the results. First, I was blown away by the number of responders, so THANK YOU to all who [...]

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Tornado Marketing hosts: Differentiate and Dominate Web Workshops
Guaranteed to help define your ideal target market and create a unique marketing strategy.
 
ORANGE COUNTY – Tornado Marketing, Inc. has combined their marketing knowledge with the best-selling Duct Tape Marketing System to create a web workshop that teaches small business owners how to grow their business through systematic, [...]

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Play YOUR Game.

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

My daughter’s recent softball game reminded me how quickly people get in trouble when they try to emulate someone else.  We were playing a super-agressive team who stole every base they could.  We were beating them until we decided we need to run our girls super-agressively as well.  Our girls weren’t prepared and trained how to do that.  [...]

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April Fool’s Day

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

“The Leaning Tower of Pisa has fallen!”
“Burger King creates a left-handed burger!”
“Taco Bell buys the Liberty Bell and renames it The Taco Liberty Bell. In a return move, Ford purchases the Lincoln Memorial and renames it the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial.”
These are just a few of the headlines of the day on (of course) April [...]

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