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Billy Joel And The Audacious Power Of Asking

Billy Joel And The Audacious Power Of Asking

If you haven’t seen this video yet, you need to take the six minutes and nineteen seconds to do that now. Go ahead. Do it right now. I’ll wait. You see? I told you it was worth it! 🙂 What Most Of Us Are Afraid Of I didn’t want you to watch it to see […]

Game Apps For Cats And The Reason You Should Use Content Marketing

Game Apps For Cats And The Reason You Should Use Content Marketing

  I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN YOU Sorry you haven’t heard from me recently. I have been juggling multiple projects and some paid content creation work, which didn’t leave me with very much time to create content for you. You can see some posts I wrote during this time over at Writtent.com: Preview of Facebook’s Graph Search […]

The Rare Comic Book and What Successful Businesses Know that the Rest Don’t

The Rare Comic Book and What Successful Businesses Know that the Rest Don’t

  The Rare Comic Book that Sold at a Shocking Price You need to hear this story I came across. It’s a story that will teach you the three things you must know to succeed in business. In New York in 2009, there was a Internet auction to sell a comic book. Now that wouldn’t be anything […]

Content Marketers: The True Art Of Memory Is Attention

Content Marketers: The True Art Of Memory Is Attention

                        You create content, because you want it be consumed, right? You want it to help others and to influence people, right?   Well, consider these two quotes before you sit down to create your next piece of content… “The true art of memory […]

Our Top 20 Posts For 2012

Our Top 20 Posts For 2012

Thank you all who have visited this site this year. Thanks to all of you who have signed up for email reminders. (You can do the same thing over there ==> on the right side bar…hint-hint, wink, wink.) And now, without further ado…. Here are RecessionSolution.com’s “Top 20 Posts For 2012“: 20. Content Marketing Lessons From […]

Christmas Songs And The Surprise Content Marketing Lessons

Christmas Songs And The Surprise Content Marketing Lessons

This is an important post I put up last year. I thought those of you who missed it the first time should see it now…   It’s ok.  Go ahead.  Call me a “sap.”  I probably deserve it. Why?  Well, there is a local radio station that begins playing Christmas songs 24/7 starting on December […]

The Lost Story Of How Content Marketing Gave Birth To Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

The Lost Story Of How Content Marketing Gave Birth To Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

  I don’t know how come, but I have never heard this story before. What story? The story about how a simple content marketing assignment produced the legendary story of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.     Montgomery Ward’s Use Of Content Marketing At Christmas In 1939, Robert L. May was given a simple assignment for the […]

May The Force (of Content Marketing) Be With You: How ABC Used Extreme Makeover To Promote Lucasfilms

May The Force (of Content Marketing) Be With You: How ABC Used Extreme Makeover To Promote Lucasfilms

  I am sure you heard the news: that Disney bought Lucasfilms for $4 billion dollars back in October 2012. Well, I was watching one of my family’s favorite shows last night: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition – Holiday Special. Ty and the team went to Texas to help a family called the Zdroj family. They […]

Content Marketing And The Ever-Growing Problem Of Information Overload

Content Marketing And The Ever-Growing Problem Of Information Overload

“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.”    Those words were said by a guy named Marshall McLuhan who was a Canadian communications theorist, Educator, Writer and Social Reformer who lived from 1911-1980. That’s right. He […]

How George Lucas Keeps Star Wars Popular By Using Content Marketing

How George Lucas Keeps Star Wars Popular By Using Content Marketing

Do you realize that the first Star Wars movie came out in May 1977? If that doesn’t make you feel old, do you realize that the last prequel “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” came out in 2005? That’s seven years ago! Have you ever wondered how Star Wars continues to be popular with […]

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