The Most Important Marketing Skill

Does your product solve a problem?  Or does it fulfill a desire?  This is an important distinction.If you are solving a problem, your marketing challenge is all about getting the word out to your customers.  If you're selling a cure for their sickness, they need...

What to Expect (Part 2)

Another blog I write is www.willmarlow.wordpress.com, and that blog follows a fairly rigid format.When I write a post for that blog, I simply ask the question: Is this topic something that a client of mine (a school or nonprofit executive) will likely find...

What to Expect

I have two separate blogs.  This (www.willmarlow.com) is my personal blog, and my posts here stem from my role as a co-founder of AlumniFidelity, and my experience operating a technology startup company.   Before posting to this blog, I try to ask the...

Twitter 102: An Introduction to the ReTweet

This post is intended for people who are either new to Twitter, or who have been Tweeting for awhile and would like to get more out of Twitter by understanding one of the most common Twitter use cases, the ReTweet.  ReTweet (or, RT): as a verb, to ReTweet is to...

How to Learn from Google’s Beta Tag

The beta tag is one of Google’s brilliant hallmarks. The beta phase (it can actually last forever) solves one of the key challenges in software product development.  The first challenge (unsolved by the beta phase) is to build software that solves a serious consumer...