Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 141 Beyond Content: It’s Time for Experiential Marketing Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 141

This week’s reflection point: It’s widely known that content marketing is critical to business success. But in this day and age, creating valuable, relevant content for your target audience isn’t the only marketing strategy you need. You must also give your audience an authentic experience—and you can do this with experiential marketing. Experiential marketing enables your customers to truly experience your brand, your product, or your service. It allows you to show your prospects—firsthand—the incredible results you can help them...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 140 Attributes of a Dream Team Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 140

From left: Adi Beeri, Chad Barr, Lihi BZ This week’s reflection point: I just arrived in Dublin for a business meeting after a fabulous week in Israel spent visiting and reuniting with family and friends. A huge highlight was my face-to-face meeting, (coffee and cake) with the Israeli division of our creative team. It’s clear to me that I could not have achieved our incredible success without the devotion and talent of the team I’ve surrounded myself with. Here are...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 139 The Marketing “It” Factor Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 139

This week’s reflection point: What’s the key to a successful business? Some might say it’s a solid business strategy, a strong financial plan, or even a team of excellent people. Others will tell you it’s effective leadership or huge demand for the product or service. While each of these components is important, the truth is that marketing trumps them all. That’s right: marketing. Far too many business owners ignore the significance of a powerful marketing strategy. Many claim that marketing...

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Rasing the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 138 40 Lessons Learned From Running My Business Rasing the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 138

This week’s reflection point: Almost five years ago I wrote and shared my original Lessons Learned From Running My Business article, which included 40 lessons that have become quite popular among our readers. Since then, I have added 40 additional lessons, which I mentioned and have made available in this article. In the spirit of learning and sharing, here are 40 additional lessons learned: I’ve been fortunate to work with some of the smartest clients in the world. I don’t...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 137 11 Ways to Promote Your Business Online Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 137

This week’s reflection point: The question of how to promote your business online is a recurring theme I hear quite often. Three years ago, I wrote the article How To Promote Your Website when I shared 21 ideas of doing so. Today, I am going to change the angle slightly and focus on how to promote your business online. Here are my recommendations: Update your blog often since it is the ultimate repository of your intellectual property where you are...

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Rasing the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 136 Juggling Connectivity Rasing the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 136

This week’s reflection point: We live in an era of constant and instant connectivity. Over the past 15 years, our society has undergone a complete transformation in terms of basic interactions. It’s no surprise that the kids who came of age during this time period, the infamous Millennials, are known as The On-Demand Generation. These days, it seems that anything you want, you can get on demand—or at least in 1 to 2 business days, with free shipping. On one...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 134 Taking Control of Technology Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 134

This week’s reflection point: Does it ever feel like technology is controlling you, rather than empowering you? If so, it’s easy to understand why. We live in a world where machines seem to conquer all. Back in 2011, IBM’s “Watson” computer beat out Jeopardy!‘s two best players to win over $70,000 in a landslide victory. And since 1996, when the first computer beat the top-rated chess player in the world, computers have been yelling “check-mate!” at strategy competitions around the...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 133 Cyber Strategy Success Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 133

This week’s reflection point: My clients often refer to me as their cyber strategist. So as I was reflecting about the essence of a successful cyber strategy it occurred to me that the acronym stands for: Content that is amazing and provokes others. You have the biggest impact on your success. Breakthrough offerings and relationships. Evolution of intellectual property and reduced stagnation. Remarkable results created for your clients. Strategy that paves the way to a great future. Technology to deliver value...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 132 Earning Your Thought Leadership Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 132

This week’s reflection point: For years I have been saying that one of the key attributes of successful thought leaders is that they are prolific publishers of remarkable and provocative content and they consistently increase their body of work. Consequently, creating and leveraging your intellectual property (IP) is a proven approach to strengthening your thought leadership and your global reach. Notice in the visual above, on the left, the items that support and promote thought leadership. On the opposite side...

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