Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2019

I’ve had a few times when it seemed I could do no wrong when it came to getting clients. For us it means putting in a little more time, doing less marketing, postponing admin work, etc. What about for businesses making or selling a product or labor-intensive service (fixing furnaces, installing systems, etc.)

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Why does marketing often feel like a struggle, a challenging and not very fun to do? I want to suggest that it’s mostly because of the stories you tell yourself about marketing. We tell all kinds of stories (to ourselves) about what we conceive marketing to be. Marketing – “…is just hype and half-truths.”.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I thought I’d offer my perspective from the last 35 years of observing the equity markets, including four stock market crashes. GameStop is a business that sells video games via physical retail stores, typically located in shopping malls in the United States. When you invest in a stock, there are two ways you can do so.

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

So, what can and should businesses do? Realize, growth sucks cash – super fast growth can be as bad to a company, especially a new company, as slow growth. Know your market – as mentioned, if the big players like Apple, Google and Amazon don’t offer unlimited free storage why should this firm. Didn’t somebody catch this?

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Prudent Pedal

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

A sales meeting is one of the first and most important interactions because prospects understand that “how a firm sell me is how they will serve me.” Prudent Pedal creates go-to-market playbooks to help our clients create a more effective, differentiated, and consistent client experience. READ: Identifying Your Focus.

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Rod Burkert

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Do you lack the time to ‘navel gaze’? Do you think there can only be one ‘Jim Hitchner’? This is what we do! labor market, will be fired or demoted — especially if they’re deemed “older.”. If we get less than that number – it sucks. If we get more than that number – it sucks.

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The Fearless Marketer

AUGUST 6, 2018

When it comes to growing your business these days, all you hear about is online marketing. After engaging in online marketing for more than 20 years, I’ve learned a lot of things. And one of those things is that online marketing can be a complete waste of your time and resources. First, what online marketing is a waste of time?

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 2, 2015

In my world of small business buy-sell there are almost as many ways to inflate a business’s income as there are on Wall Street. A naïve buyer will fall for this, which is why I ask if it’s fraud (to present a company’s income like). People who are trying to make this world worse re not taking the day off – why should I?”

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2017

Go the market, to sell for what you want (as in the title of my book If They Can Sell Pet Rocks Why Can’t You Sell Your Business (For What You Want)?)? It’s hard to grow if your people are already stretched thin, especially if the skills you need are part of the tight labor market. And growth sucks cash.

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Rod Burkert

APRIL 11, 2018

If you’re smart about it, writing can mostly be a matter of answering questions about your practice – what you do … how you do it … and why you do it. If you’re smart about it, writing can mostly be a matter of answering questions about your practice – what you do … how you do it … and why you do it.

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MishTalk

JUNE 12, 2014

Had Bush not trumped up lies, sucking Colin Powell along for the ride, the war would never have happened. Had Bush not trumped up lies, sucking Colin Powell along for the ride, the war would never have happened. And look who thought Obama did not do enough in Syria. Isn’t it a terrible idea to do nothing in Syria?”

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The type of people who have the analytical skills to do consulting, tend to be introverted and unaccustomed to being around other people constantly in their work lives. When you meet someone for the first time, hands down the easiest thing you can do is ask them about themselves. SHORT-TERM. 1) GET THEM TALKING ABOUT THEMSELVES.

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MishTalk

JULY 28, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Euro Sucks Italian Blood; Prime Minister Blames Tax Evasion; Reflections on Italys Shadow Economy. Recent Posts. Featured Links. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Boom Bust Blog.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 1, 2015

I let him know that the world was my oyster, I had more important things to do than sit around and ride my bike to the farmer’s market, and I was out to make a dent. The problem was, I just didn’t yet know what it was that I was meant to do. Sure, I’d just returned from an around-the-world trip – and the U.S. and in George W.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 4, 2013

I do not think so, nor does Rio Tinto. Australia’s decade-long mining boom has sucked up skilled workers, raising wages for engineers to drivers at Rio, the second-largest exporter of the mineral, and its closest competitors, Vale SA (VALE) and BHP Billiton Ltd. Why stop with train drivers? billion World Mining Fund.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Erica Jackson, chief marketing officer of the Mendoza Marathon Corporation, had risen early to watch people line up to register for next year’s event and expected an enthusiastic crowd. “Do you work for Mendoza? “Do you work for Mendoza?” ” he asked, sounding annoyed. Erica sighed.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot. Which is exactly why I think Lyons is right to pillory these kinds of practices. Step 1: Create lots and lots of content to attract lots and lots of page views.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2016

We all know who these people are: When their names come up on your phone, you automatically stop and think, “Do I have the energy to take this call?” ” They’re the people in the company who have demonstrated repeatedly that they will suck the life out of you and others in every interaction.

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