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When Your Imagination Is Bigger Than Your Wallet
Have you ever solved a problem bigger than your wallet with your imagination? Well, here's a story that I hope you will learn a lot from! The Situation My client Andrea (I have permission to use her real name) hired a young hotshot assistant for her ad agency. He...
Do Customers Love You? 5 Questions to Ask
Your customers may 'like' your Facebook page but do they actually LOVE you? That's such an overused word but I don't mind. I use it for everything because like any consumer, I'm passionate about the products and services I spend my life with. How about you? Answer...
5 Online Marketing Strategies for a Tight Budget
Budgets are tight all around and I'm the perfect example of an el-cheapo marketer. When I meet new prospects and tell them that I'm a marketing coach, they sometimes start to look nervous and say that they don't have any money for marketing. Well here are some free...
5 Signs That You Are Living In The Dark Ages
I've been having lots of short phone chats with people I meet while networking, on social media or with people who've been e-introduced to me. In some cases, I have to really shake my head at the mindset that greets me. Here are some hints that you might also be...
Brandings Cardinal Sins: 3 Common Mistakes to Avoid
You probably know that branding started in farms thousands of years ago to distinguish one farmer's cattle from another's. In business, it's one of the most important things to set you apart from your sea of competitors. Nobody's born with this knowledge and you...
Marketing Strategies for the Future
As a brand marketing coach for small businesses, my number one job is to drag my clients out of the past perception of what marketing was into the future. I'm even writing a book about it called "Gentle Marketing". It's all about attraction, gratitude and giving...
Poking my eyes out
Have you ever wanted to poke your own eyes out during someone's speech? Last night I attended a professional association meeting where I was asked to stay for the presentation since I'll be speaking there myself this year. The talk was given by a sales rep for a...
Building Your Brand on Twitter
As a brand marketing coach, I am always interested in learning new ways to use my brand to enhance my presence on any client touch point. One such touch point is Twitter. Are you doing these things (some of them are admittedly no-brainers) to enhance and build your...
3 Words That Create Instant Credibility
A lot of the work I do with my clients around branding and marketing themselves is around authenticity and transparency. I often talk about how attractive it is when you, the small business owner is up front and honest with people. When it comes to...
5 Secret Thoughts Of Entrepreneurs
As a small business marketing coach, I know and live my entrepreneur clients' thoughts intimately. If life were like a cartoon, we'd have thought bubbles over our heads where our secret thoughts reside. Luckily very few people I've met are mind readers because some...
The 5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Taking on a Client
As a small business owner, I think my clients are like my bosses. I have loads of them. So if stats say that people leave their jobs because of not being able to get along with their bosses, I think it's safe to say that it's really important how you manage your...
Make Your Slogan Ring True
Your slogan is the best way to convey your brand voice and character. Your brand character is the only thing that makes you different than every other competitor in your industry. So do yourself a favour and have a slogan (or a tag line). Then after you get one,...
About Chala
Chala Dincoy is a Marketing Strategist who helps B2B service providers reposition their marketing message to successfully sell to corporate clients
