A few weeks ago, I made the trip from Atlanta to North Dakota to spend some time hanging out with the Todaymade crew live and in person. While I was there, we had a few great discussions about who we were as a company and who we were becoming. As a company, we are growing up. Todaymade is constantl
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Don't Sell a Product. Tell Your Story.
Posted by julesvern97 under MarketingFrom http://todaymade.com 3876 days ago
Why Your Client Should Only Be 90% Satisfied
Posted by julesvern97 under MarketingFrom http://todaymade.com 3883 days ago
Made Hot by: SJC on September 14, 2013 12:40 pm
“Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed!” That’s not a bad line when you’re selling a tangible item like a car or a grapefruit, but what about your design? Or, frankly, any professional service? Client satisfaction isn’t what you think it is. When it comes to professional services, the customer isn’t
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How Many Categories Should Your Blog Post Have?
Posted by julesvern97 under MarketingFrom http://todaymade.com 3888 days ago
You’ve finished your blog post and now you have to decide which blog category it belongs in. Is it best to include a blog post in all possible categories, or to choose just one main one? I suppose the question you need to answer before starting down this path is one about the purpose of category. S
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The Problem Is That You Have The Wrong Job
Posted by julesvern97 under Human ResourcesFrom http://todaymade.com 3889 days ago
For many years, I had a lingering sense of dissatisfaction in my career. It wasn’t that I had a “bad” job cleaning up kid puke or mopping overflowing toilets. (Those jobs had come earlier in my career.) Rather, I felt caught in a string of jobs where the boss was more interested in an adherence to
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Henry Ford Knew How The Lean Startup Worked
Posted by julesvern97 under MarketingFrom http://todaymade.com 3895 days ago
Henry Ford was a brilliant machinist, inventor, and business tycoon, but he would have never made it without his reluctant business partner James J. Couzens. There’s a good chance, though, that you’ve never heard of Couzens. Most people don’t know that before starting the Ford Motor Company in 1903
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Should You Be Using Medium To Blog?
Posted by julesvern97 under MarketingFrom http://todaymade.com 3897 days ago
Medium looks beautiful. Clean design, great concept, full of potential treasures to be read. The idea of Medium was to allow for “medium” length content. It wasn’t the short 140-character tweet, but it wasn’t a novel, either. Though once carefully curated, it has been opened up widely to writers ar
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How Much Editing Is Too Much?
Posted by julesvern97 under Human ResourcesFrom http://coschedule.com 3901 days ago
Editing blog posts requires a decision on how much you'll edit out, and how much you'll preserve. It comes down to author voice.
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Being Culture Based vs. Commodity Based
Posted by julesvern97 under MarketingFrom http://todaymade.com 3904 days ago
A few days ago I met with another startup that shared a common industry with Todaymade. They started at about the same time that we did, and to date they have achieved more in revenue, and have grown a larger team than we have. As a natural competitor this could bother me, but as we talked I realiz
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The Wolves Are Breeding The Sheep — What I Learned Today — Medium
Posted by julesvern97 under Human ResourcesFrom https://medium.com 3904 days ago
Your team's intense debate might be because the question everyone is answering isn't the same question. Keep your main question the same for everyone.
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How To Motivate Your Team To Write Great Content
Posted by julesvern97 under MarketingFrom http://coschedule.com 3908 days ago
Difficulties motivating your writing team? Lack of ownership and a heavy-handed editing process might be the culprits.
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