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Tracy Marlowe
July 8, 2009

I was helping my husband create a business card recently and because I’m so freaking busy, he insisted on doing it by himself. He was struggling trying to do it on his own like a toddler refusing mommy’s help in making his first peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It was [...]

Tracy Marlowe
June 24, 2009

I know what you’re thinking. Know your market? Duh! Of course I need to know my market! I wasn’t born yesterday. But I’m telling you, I am surprised every day at how many marketers out there know only the bare bones about who they are hoping will buy their services [...]

Tracy Marlowe
June 23, 2009

Fair warning! Here I go again talking about how fabulous one of our clients is. But that’s one of the benefits of owning your own company. You get to choose who you work with and we choose to work with fabulous people and companies! So there! One of our wonderful [...]

Tracy Marlowe
June 19, 2009

I was just reading Seth Godin’s current blog post about “Two ways to build trust.” As I read it, I kept saying to myself, “Uh huh! Yes! Yeah! Oh, that’s so true!” He hit home on a very simple concept that seems fairly common sense, yet there are still so [...]

Tracy Marlowe
June 7, 2009

Ahhh. Competition. It’s one of the most critical elements we consider when developing marketing strategies for a client. The mere mention of the word can make one sit a little straighter and feel a little more defensive. But it doesn’t have to. I overheard a conversation at my son’s t-ball [...]

Tracy Marlowe
June 4, 2009

Here are my slides from today’s talk on “Blogging for Business 101” with the San Antonio chapter of the American Marketing Association, as part of their Marketing Mastery Series. Hope you enjoyed it! Blogging for Business 101 A quick update to this post (at 11:20am on Thursday, June 4th). If [...]

Tracy Marlowe
May 28, 2009

I’m giving a talk next week, June 4th at 8:00 am, on blogging for your business, sponsored by the San Antonio chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA). It’s free to members and only $25 for non-members. Here’s the skinny on what I’ll be talking about… Even in a floundering [...]

Tracy Marlowe
May 27, 2009

We have a client who had a long-time website that had, like most website, stood out there on the web as basically a brochure for the company. Who was going to the site? Mostly people who had heard about the company and were seeking additional information. Most of their traffic [...]

Tracy Marlowe
May 22, 2009

At a meeting the other day, Tracy and I were asked a question we had never really been asked before. “So, when can we stop ‘branding’?” the client asked. This particular client had really stepped out of its comfort zone and ramped up branding efforts in order to make its [...]

Tracy Marlowe
May 6, 2009

Have you ever wondered about the power of typos and why, in the grand scheme of things, there is this power given to such a minute oversight? We’ve all had those times when we’re reading an article, a book, a brochure or a resumĂ© and we come across a typo. [...]