By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com I was flipping through a copy of CRN the other day and was, yet again, disappointed by the unbelievably bad marketing and monumental waste of money. I think it is this incredible void of good marketing examples that makes...
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com Warning: The information you are about to read contains real work. It is not a magic pill. It is not easy or fast and cannot be delegated. It also may take several months to complete. HOWEVER… The secret process...
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com A friend of mine recently told me a terrific story about his wife who has osteoporosis. Not terrific in that she has this disease, but a sensational example of why most small business owners are not bothering to pick...
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com Increase profits by raising your rates, lowering your costs, or both. Most of my clients insist that they cannot raise their rates, yet I don’t know of anyone to date who has done this and lost all their clients....
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com There is an old cartoon loved by many sales people that shows a machine gun salesman calling on a General right before he’s going to lead an army to war equipped only with pitch forks and swords. The caption...
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com The other evening I was listening to Matt Furey’s Magnetic Mind Power for Peak Athletic Performance and I was again reminded that success – whether it’s in business, financially, with your family, or physically – is an “inside job”...
“I Doubled Last Year’s Revenue…But The Biggest Change Has Been How My Revenues Have Shifted…” By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com I think Jim Rohn said, “Most people prefer a good excuse to a great opportunity.” Based on the number of excuses I hear...
An old joke: A man sits down with his coworkers to have lunch. Upon opening his lunchbox he says, “Sheesh! Tuna fishagain! That’s all I ever get for lunch and I hate tuna fish.” One of his coworkers says, “Well, why don’t you ask your wife to pack...
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com The other day on a group conference call, one of my clients told me they had been doing “my style” of marketing and getting “disappointing” results. When I asked what “disappointing” was, he said, “We have mailed out two...
By Robin Robins, President, Technology Marketing Toolkit, Inc. www.technologymarketingtoolkit.com With managed services all the rage, many of my clients want me to provide them with campaigns and strategies for selling these services. To that end, I recently received the following e-mail from a client using my marketing strategies...