If You Really Want to Understand Customer Needs, Avoid Surveys
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Whether you’re a business just starting out or have been around for decades, you’ve probably used surveys to keep a pulse of your customers. It’s a tool that has been around for almost 200 years and continues to drive many insightful nuggetsRead More
How To Build Great Leadership Teams
Marketing Podcast with Jack McGuinness In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Jack McGuinness. Jack is a management consultant with over 35 years of experience. After serving with the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, he helped build a successful boutique management consulting firm where he servedRead More
6 Ways to Determine if Your Content Marketing Team is Delivering Results
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You know content marketing drives success both online and offline. But how are you supposed to tell if it’s working so you can improve your content marketing efforts? And if you can’t tell, then how can you justify continuing to sink anyRead More
Stay Ahead of the Curve By Implementing the Right Business Strategy at Each Stage
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Your marketing strategies will change depending on where you are in your company’s growth cycle — startup, scaling, undergoing a transformation — and it’s only by understanding how marketing evolves with the stages of your business that you can stay ahead ofRead More
The Importance of Mapping Out Your Competitor Landscape
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “We don’t have any competitors.” It’s a line I hear often from clients, and it always gives me pause. It’s technically possible that your brand has carved out a niche so specific — say, a dating app for marine biologists — thatRead More
Why Great Leadership Starts With Open Hearted Conversations
Marketing Podcast with Edward Sullivan In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Edward Sullivan. Edward has been coaching and advising start-up founders, Fortune 10 executives, and heads of state for over 15 years. His clients include executives from Google, Salesforce, Slack, and dozens of other fast-growthRead More
Why Connection Is The Ultimate Source Of Healing In All Areas Of Life
About the show: The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of short-form interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode focuses on a single topic with actionable insights you can apply today. Check out the new Spark Lab Consulting website here!Read More
5 Traits to Measure Your Brand’s Health
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When I speak to marketing leaders about brand health and how to improve a brand’s visibility, I emphasize the point that every business is a living entity. And, in order to thrive and ensure sustained growth, it is imperative to track brandRead More
5 Timely Ways B2B Brands Can Conquer Metaverse Marketing
The metaverse — a term coined in a 1992 novel — isn’t done cooking yet, but with a world that needs to eat right now and chefs that need to cook, what do B2B brands need to know to get ready? Just 18 percent of brand marketing and analytics executivesRead More
The 3 Biggest Challenges to Marketing in the Metaverse
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Marketing in the metaverse is like setting up a website in the earliest days of the internet, or hanging up a dusty wooden shingle in the 19th century Old West. It can be extremely difficult to know how much time and resourcesRead More
