Tough Love

Pamela Sherman

Entrepreneurial Success: Tips for Understanding & Overcoming FEARS

October 31st, 2009
by Pamela Sherman

Here are some tips to achieve greater success by understanding and overcoming FEARS –for yourself, your business, and your customers/clients:
1) IDENTIFY FEARS:
First, identify your own fears.  Sometimes you’ll know them consciously when the feeling arises and it’s clear to you.  Other times, our subconscious minds may cover them with symptoms of procrastination, avoidance, and …

Posted in Ask the Marketing Therapist, Blog, Free Therapy Advice, Marketing Interventions, Small Business, Tough Love, Web Marketing Deep Thoughts

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Sarah Caminker

Have You Been Served Your “Social Media Rights” at Work?

October 6th, 2009
by Sarah Caminker

According to a Robert Half Technology survey of 1,400 chief information officers (CIOs), more people are now at risk of “violating company policy.” 54 percent of CIOs said their firms do NOT allow employees to visit social networking sites for any reason while at work.

Only 10 percent of those surveyed allow employees to use social …

Posted in Blog, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Tough Love

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Anne Orfila

Social Media Experiment: Will Social Media Make You Thin?!

August 21st, 2009
by Anne Orfila

News Flash People!  All the early mornings I’ve been spending doubling up  on my cardio (think spinning class plus thousands of yards of swimming) or running plus weights or elliptical plus stairmaster are doing NOTHING for me – well my cholesterol, blood pressure and all that is perfect, so says my doctor - but I’m focusing on …

Posted in Addictions, Art Therapy, Comic Relief, Daily Inspiration, Obsessions, On the Couch, Social Media, Tough Love

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Lorrie Thomas

Marketing Diagnosis: Letting Your Web Appearance Go is a Sign of Business Depression

July 28th, 2009
by Lorrie Thomas

One obvious sign of depression is letting appearance go.  The same applies in business. 
As your virtual marketing therapist, I need to dish out doses of tough love and today’s spoonful of marketing sugar is simple:
When you look good, you feel good
When the appearance of your web site, eNewsletters, business cards, etc., start to look dated, …

Posted in Art Therapy, Free Therapy Advice, Marketing RX, Tough Love, Web Marketing Best Practices, Web Marketing Tips

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Amy Dunn

Is Your Relationship with Twollow Dysfunctional?

July 23rd, 2009
by Amy Dunn

A few weeks ago, we mentioned what a wonderful tool Twollow is.   Twollow is a service that will search Tweets for you according to keywords and begin following the person who posted the Tweet.  The idea is you build a wider following in Twitter among people relevant to you. However- there is …

Posted in Blog, Marketing Interventions, Social Media, Tools, Tough Love

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