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A Chinese puzzle: the battle between sales and marketing
Sales and marketing should be working together – but all too often they don’t. The author explains why – and suggests a training solution

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Time to Conquer Your Fear
Seven years ago, my ship started to turn. At the time, Delia Associates looked very much like a traditional business advertising and PR firm. Don’t get me wrong. We were doing some great work for a lot of great clients. But that’s when the branding bug caught me. I saw branding as more than a fad. I realized it was the foundation of category domination. If a company could discover its true distinction, it could virtually erase all competition, and drive toward greatness.
Its Wednesday February 21st at 1045am Time to Conquer Your Fear
Seven years ago, my ship started to turn. At the time, Delia Associates looked very much like a traditional business advertising and PR firm. Don’t get me wrong. We were doing some great work for a lot of great clients. But that’s when the branding bug caught me. I saw branding as more than a fad. I realized it was the foundation of category domination. If a company could discover its true distinction, it could virtually erase all competition, and drive toward greatness.

Do People Really Need to See Your Ad 7 Times Before They'll Buy From You?
According to the advertising industry, your prospect needs to see your ads at least seven times before they'll act on it. And if the claim is true, you will need a deep pocket to play the game. That's why so many businesses spend enormous amounts of advertising dollars on branding and positioning, but at the end of day they have very little to show for it. Most businesses go through the mechanical motions: creating brochures and websites, buying advertising space in newspapers and magazines, paying for prime spots on radio and TV, and launching public relation campaigns to pursue publicity and raise public awareness.

THE THREE R’S OF SERVICE BRANDING: REACH, RECOGNITION, AND REPUTATION
By Robert Croston Think about your most recent branding campaign. Were your television ads as successful as you'd like them to be? Perhaps the billboards didn't create the recognition that you were looking for, but your online ads on Yahoo! and AOL worked quite well. Did you pick the right professional athlete to represent your firm's services? If you're reading this far, and you work at most service businesses, you probably think I'm nuts. You don't do any of this. Well, maybe you're a big firm and you do (kudos to you), or you've tried something here and there. But in most of our service business realities, advertising-as-a-primary-branding-vehicle is not the norm. And it shouldn't be.

Book Review: Branding Only Works On Cattle
In Jonathan Salem Baskin’s book, Branding Only Works On Cattle, he takes firm aim at the practice of the marketing practice of branding. He defines branding as building consumer awareness with the goal of influencing their future behavior. Simply put, he believes that branding is useless.
Is Personal Branding Really Effective?
Personal branding is a hot topic these days. An entire industry has grown up around it seemingly overnight. Personal branding gurus claim that branding yourself is the key to success in this new economy. And yet, there's something often repulsive about personal branding that can make it backfire if you're not careful.
Online Marketing Of Your Website
Online marketing and advertising are moving in opposite directions. Rich media ads and other graphical animated advertising appear more frequently on sites and in email. Much online image-based advertising is primarily used to communicate branding and educational messages first, then to drive traffic to the advertiser's site. As average consumer bandwidth increases, so do the use of animated, audio, video, and large-format image ads. Ad agencies and marketing departments are set to communicate branding objectives online as they do offline.
Advertising and Branding
Branding is an important aspect of building a business. Every aspect of a business must contribute to the branding aspect in order to give a unified approach where all energies are focused on putting out a single image. Advertising is one of the most important aspects of branding. Advertising puts a face on what the brand does and how it functions to the general public, especially potential customers.
Is There a Brand in Your Stand?
Watch out for the branding gurus. Beware of the branding police who focus only on images of brand. Fire the branding consultants who feel qualified to tell you what your brand should be. Ignore the branding zealots who proclaim "brand or die".
Personal Branding
Personal Branding is the absolute hallmark of the top 2% of sales professionals. Most of them don’t even know that they are doing it! Personal Branding gets your phone to ring. Personal Branding separates you from all of the competition. Personal Branding puts VALUE ahead of COST. Personal Branding elevates you and thus your company/product/service in the minds of your customer. Personal Branding, quite simply, creates more sales for you!
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