Happy Holidays from Carabiner Communications!
Happy Holidays from everyone at Carabiner Communications. We hope your holidays will be filled with joy and laughter through the New Year.
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Warming Up for 2015
It’s the time of year when people like me dust off their crystal balls, peer in for a look at what lies ahead, and share the goods with friends like you. This season, wearables and the Internet of Things and advances in mobile continue to dominate, and I expect we’ll all hear a good deal
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Scrapping Strategic Tactics in Favor of Tactical Strategy
In a previous post, I suggested that the nature of “messaging” has changed so dramatically that the traditional messaging document, chock full of pre-launch analysis, is obsolete. I realized later that I stopped short. The traditional Grand Marketing Strategy for all start-up launches needs to be tossed in favor of a more flexible and athletic
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Maybe you can’t judge a book by its cover, but “looks” sure count with the solutions we create
Googling the exact phrase “Don’t judge a book by its cover” returns nearly 13 million results. That’s an astounding number of reminders that we shouldn’t judge a person by appearances, which is what the phrase means. While I think that’s absolutely true, that we shouldn’t make snap judgments about the people we meet, the continuous
Cupboards, Old Dogs and the Decade That Flew By
When I emigrated from England to America in the early ‘80s, I found that some of the sayings my mom taught me didn’t translate. I got puzzled looks when I said something like: “Looks don’t fill a cupboard.” (Translation: Don’t judge a book by its cover). One saying that did translate was: “You can’t teach
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“Messaging” Didn’t Die; It Went Direct
Marketers today have unprecedented, direct communication channels to prospects and customers that have come to dominate messaging. We tell our “stories” so quickly now, even to those who have just met us. Encounters in landing pages, YouTube videos, blog posts, Facebook postings, tweets, etc. all have the same purpose with those just getting to know
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Marketing Performance: How Do You Measure Up?
According to a recent marketing performance management and measurement survey, 85 percent of marketers feel increasing pressure to measure marketing’s value and contribution, yet only 26 percent are capable of determining their impact on the business. Conducted by VisionEdge Marketing and ITSM, the survey provides a view into what best-in-class marketers, given an “A” grade by
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Can passion for helping a community be the basis for starting a company?
I had lunch the other day with a friend who asked, hypothetically, if I thought passion for helping a community could be the basis for starting a company. My first thought was that anything can be the basis for starting a company, but can it be the basis for a successful one? I shrugged it
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The Entrepreneur and the Jedi Mind Trick Selfie
Unless your geek quotient is low, you know that a Jedi mind trick uses powerful suggestion to influence and control minds. Selfie has become so well-known that it’s Oxford Dictionaries’ 2013 word of the year. Two very important concepts! Welding them together to create a “Jedi mind trick selfie” produces a third concept, which is
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Can You Tell Your Story as Well as Your Customers Can?
Carabiner recently developed a case study to serve as a basis for marketing outreach on a client’s behalf. The task involved interviewing one of the client’s customers, a company among the first to deploy a new product offering, to capture the customer experience. We were already well acquainted with the new offering’s general benefits, having
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