Tom Ruwitch
Hi — I’m speaking at The Authentic Marketing Summit on Monday. I’m trying to build up registrations for the event. Please register with your gmail account. No cost. No obligation to attend, although there are some great speakers and you’d learn a lot. https://go.eventraptor.com/summit/the-authentic-marketing-summit-2305/tomruwitch Thanks.
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I met yesterday with a marketing agency owner named Nancy who told me a client-from-hell story. The client hired Nancy to flood his website with new leads. Nancy delivered. But when those leads landed on the site, they had just one option: Call to buy. The client’s phone didn’t ring so he fired Nancy. She…
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Sometimes I stumble across something in a book, movie, television show, or wherever and think, “I have to share this in an email.” It happened last night. I was reading Pappyland by Wright Thompson (must reading if you enjoy bourbon). And I came to the part where he describes his father: “He was magnetic and kind and…
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Recommended EventThe Authentic Marketing Summit An entire summit devoted to marketing and selling authentically without pitching and prodding??? Yes, please! It’s happening on May 15. It’s called the Authentic Marketing Summit. And it’s free to register and attend. I’ll be one of the 12 speakers. My topic: “How to Transform Your Content from Boring to…
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Earlier this week, I emailed about a spammer named Neel who tried to woo me with a picture of his puppy. It didn’t work. In my email, I wondered whether Neel-the-Spammer might have gotten me to bite on his podcast production services… …if he’d sent me a better attention grabber — such as a dancing goat…
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A short one today because I’m about to spend the next two days working on my business with 15 mastermind partners. But before that gavel drops on that, a question… If an email sign-up form requires you to share your mobile phone number, what would you do? ？Enter your number and opt-in? ？Refuse to opt-in? ？It depends…
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Last week, I called out a social media influencer who crossed the line. She posted on LinkedIn about the a program she was selling. Below the post she added 10 comments. In each comment, she tagged 30 of her connections. No commentary in the comments. Just tagged connections — 300 in all. Why’d she do…
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I got this picture of a puppy named Tino in my spam folder this morning. A guy named Neel sent it. Neel wrote: “Before this starts sounding like an email fit for your spam folder, here is Tino saying Hi on my behalf. Now that you know Tino, I can calmly introduce myself…” (Note: When…
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Recommended Viewing/InteractingThe World’s Most Unconventional Intro RJ Redden uses bots, interactive videos, and other smart technologies to create “epic engagement adventures that get people to click that button, connect with you, and convert like crazy.” Her “welcome video” is fantastic — unique, informative, and funny. And most importantly, it demonstrates a creative way you can…
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Blow the horn and tap the tambourine… It’s National Tell a Story Day! So buckle up, Buttercup. It’s story time. (This is one of my favorites) About a quarter-century ago, when my twins were toddlers, we were spending the weekend at our country place in the Ozark foothills in south-central Missouri. The ground was thirsty.…
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