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The FruitGuys: A Case Study in Follow-Up

What if I told you that you could reduce reputation problems, provide great customer service, strengthen your brand, and live according to your values and mission through a single marketing tactic? The answer lies in fruit. Yes, fruit.
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Coming soon: Where and When to Find Us

Want to see more of Outspoken Media? Here’s where we will be hanging out at in the coming months. We’re always happy to meet new people and catch up with the industry’s finest, so please come and say ‘hi’ if you catch us at one of these even…

Corporate Social Responsibility and Success

When you created your business plan, you took into account things like a marketing plan, financial data, licenses, employee salaries, insurance, and a social media policy. But did you think about corporate social responsibility (CSR)? If not, it may b…

Productivity and the Trouble with Assumptions

I love “ah-ha!” moments. I’m fortunate enough to work in an industry where they happen all of the time. Kind of like when I find your navigation is coded in non-crawlable JavaScript and not HTML. I love those moments like they’re my own childr…

Corporate Culture for Introverts

[This is part four in a five-part series charting Outspoken Media's operational development process.]Let’s just get this out in the open right now—a lot of you think the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test is a bunch of hooey. Come on, admit i…

Aligning Keyword Strategy with Corporate Goals

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[This is part three in a five-part series charting Outspoken Media's operational development process.]It was only around 10:00 a.m. when Shem set the jar full of Twizzler nibs, M&Ms, and pistachios on a chair i…

Three Lessons for Business and Life

Rarely do I get the opportunity to track my own evolution. Okay, I take that back. Facebook timeline kind of does that in a creepy “can’t believe I wore/said/acted/looked like that” sort of way.
But when it comes to true personal development, …

Embracing Your Extrovert in Business

This week, you’re going to hear a lot from Outspoken Media. Each day, we will feature a new post that is both personal and professional from each of us. We’re opening up about recent changes in the company and the broader business applications fro…

The Secret to Good Marketing: Good Business

Recently, I was contacted by a small business owner who was facing what appeared to be an insurmountable slump in sales. The business owner was a wreck. He’d opened his store in a part of town that no longer received much foot traffic since a new ov…

SEO Tramp Stamp: Not Quality Link Building

There comes a time in every link builder’s career when a technique comes to mind that just seems too good to be true. It may seem so damn simple you can hardly keep it contained.
If it seems a little suspect though, it probably is, and it won’t e…