From Danny Brown
August 15, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Customers and employees are your two most important ingredients in a successful business. Without one, you can’t have the other.
Customer service is an especially hot topic ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 15, 2010 at 9:30 am
Conventional wisdom tells us new businesses shouldn’t take risks.
Conventional wisdom tells us to adhere to the Four P’s of Marketing.
Conventional wisdom makes us ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 14, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Next year, Apple’s iPod will celebrate its tenth anniversary.
Say what you want about Steve Jobs, the guy knows how to create an icon. Before iPod, we were all supposedly ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 13, 2010 at 2:57 pm
In life and in business, we’re constantly learning.
New knowledge; new ideas; new viewpoints. Anyone that says otherwise is missing out.
After all, when we stop learning, ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 12, 2010 at 2:13 pm
If you’ve been watching the social stream the past week or so, you’ll have seen a slew of examples where a company has received a bit of a black eye in social media.
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From Danny Brown
August 11, 2010 at 8:48 pm
In the last month, I’ve received no fewer than fifteen emails asking me if I’d be interested in running ads on my blog.
These range from normal ad boxes in the sidebar, ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 11, 2010 at 5:32 pm
As social media continues to grow as a business tool, hiring an agency for your business’s social media needs can be confusing.
For a business owner, it can be pretty stressful ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm
One of the greatest aspects of social media is how it’s been adapted to helping charitable causes and non-profits.
From reacting to the Haiti disaster to raising funds for ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 9, 2010 at 11:59 am
This is a guest post by Antonia Harler, an Austrian and soon-to-be graduate who wrote her diploma thesis about Twitter as a tool for Relationship Marketing. She’s awesomely quirky ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 8, 2010 at 1:35 pm
For over a year now, I’ve used the Headway premium WordPress theme (affiliate link) on this blog, as well as a few other sites I’ve built both for myself and clients.
I’ve ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 7, 2010 at 2:10 am
Think about the humble cocktail stick.
Nothing fancy – just a short, sharp piece of wood. Simple in design yet still multi-functional.
It can be used for drinks umbrellas. It ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 6, 2010 at 9:20 am
Over at Bonsai Interactive, we made an art video on how to draw a bonsai tree, but we’re not sure of the results. So… we want you to show us the way.
Draw your interpretation ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 5, 2010 at 10:35 am
This story caught my eye today. It’s about a little 8-year old boy who’s dying from muscular dystrophy.
As part of his dying wishes, Tanner traveled to New York to ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 4, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Like most good folks, Bonsai Interactive hates spammers and spamming with a vengeance. So we made a little video just for them.
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From Danny Brown
August 4, 2010 at 12:16 am
If I have to ask you twice to explain what you do, your elevator pitch needs work.
If I give up on your phone tree, your communication options aren’t good enough.
If I Google ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 2, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Two blog posts caught my eye today. The first was The Art of Blog Commenting by Arik Hanson, and the other was The Time for Location-Based Marketing is Now by Gini Dietrich.
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From Danny Brown
August 2, 2010 at 1:27 am
If you’re a regular reader or visitor here, you’ll know that my blog has undergone a bit of a style redesign this weekend.
Out goes the blue and orange feel, and in ... (
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From Danny Brown
August 1, 2010 at 12:01 pm
How smart are you? How do you rack up compared to your peers; your competitors; your parallel people?
There’s all sorts of smart, but only one that counts. It’s not high school ... (
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From Danny Brown
July 31, 2010 at 12:42 pm
I’m a little tired. Not physically. I could always do with a little more sleep, but then so can everyone.
No.
I’m more tired about the constant “The End of PR”, “The ... (
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From Danny Brown
July 29, 2010 at 11:55 pm
In business (and life) we have to fight.
Fight for our clients. Fight for our beliefs. Fight for our ideas to be heard and understood why we’re presenting them.
Fight for ... (
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From Danny Brown
July 28, 2010 at 8:55 pm
So today saw the launch of the Bonsai Interactive website, something that had become a labour of love over the last week or so.
Bonsai Interactive itself launched back in June, ... (
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From Danny Brown
July 27, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Marketers are savvy.
Marketers make you want what you don’t need. Marketers embed a desire whether you’re hot to trot or not.
Marketers are the Ambassadors of Quan for sales ... (
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From Danny Brown
July 26, 2010 at 10:40 pm
People talk about influence – what it is, how to get it, how influence is guided by numbers and how to attract the attention of influencers for promotional needs.
Folks like ... (
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From Danny Brown
July 25, 2010 at 12:40 pm
For any blogger (especially if you’re using your blog for your business), Arkayne is a pretty solid platform that you might want to check out.
I’ve been using Arkayne ... (
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From Danny Brown
July 24, 2010 at 10:27 am
Apple’s come in for a lot of stick over their new iPhone 4. From reception issues when held a certain way to discoloured screens and other problems, there’s no doubt ... (
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