marketing opportunities Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/marketing-opportunities/ Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:06:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg marketing opportunities Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/marketing-opportunities/ 32 32 Stop Trying to Sell Me Things https://old.wordsbyapro.com/stop-trying-to-sell-me-things/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stop-trying-to-sell-me-things https://old.wordsbyapro.com/stop-trying-to-sell-me-things/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:26:29 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1282 I averted my eyes from a billboard while driving on the highway today. I won’t pretend like I did it for the sake of keeping my eyes on the road; I did it out of principle. I’m still not sure what it was advertising, though if the previous twenty I had already seen were any […]

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]]> https://old.wordsbyapro.com/stop-trying-to-sell-me-things/feed/ 29 Communication Breakdown: Why Your Marketing Has to Be Focused https://old.wordsbyapro.com/communication-breakdown-why-your-marketing-has-to-be-focused/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=communication-breakdown-why-your-marketing-has-to-be-focused Tue, 09 Jun 2015 15:39:13 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1164 Q: What do landing the perfect job, finding your ideal mate, and winning friends all have in common? A: They all require you to know how to market yourself. Yes, it’s the reason people sweat interviews (and first dates), spend hours drafting cover letters, and even pay others to assemble their résumés — we don’t […]

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]]> A Brief History of Advertising, Deception and Why Great Companies Matter https://old.wordsbyapro.com/a-brief-history-of-advertising-deception-and-why-great-companies-matter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-brief-history-of-advertising-deception-and-why-great-companies-matter https://old.wordsbyapro.com/a-brief-history-of-advertising-deception-and-why-great-companies-matter/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:14:41 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=967 Advertising, like language, is no modern phenomenon. Today, we’re so overburdened with ads that advertising has garnered a negative connotation. “Ugh, how can we get ads off of Facebook?” or “Why can’t they skip the ads before the movie starts?” are common 21st century woes. But advertising began not as a way of tricking people […]

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]]> https://old.wordsbyapro.com/a-brief-history-of-advertising-deception-and-why-great-companies-matter/feed/ 1 Happiness Is a Warm Brand Name https://old.wordsbyapro.com/happiness-is-a-warm-brand-name/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happiness-is-a-warm-brand-name Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:43:00 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=844 One of the most internationally ubiquitous weapons, the Russian AK-47, has undergone a little makeover. The assault rifle was developed in the 1940s in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov, who died almost exactly one year ago. Prior to his death, the weapons engineer wrote of his “spiritual pain” in wondering if the AK-47 has […]

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]]> Brazil Missed its Opportunity — in More Ways than One https://old.wordsbyapro.com/brazil-lost-in-more-ways-than-one/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazil-lost-in-more-ways-than-one Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:20:25 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=633 That’s it, folks. Germany took the Cup. Sorry to spoil it for anyone who didn’t follow the 2014 FIFA World Cup and somehow missed every news outlet on the Interwebs. So now what? We all pack up and go home, right? That’s certainly what most of the estimated 3.7 million World Cup tourists who invaded […]

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