Business Strategy & Insight

Three Reasons Why You Should Optimize Email Marketing with Video Now

Today Kathy Cabrera, the founder of Red Clip Video, an affordable video production company that operates as a strategic multi-media services partner to Carabiner, joins us to share her insights on how to use Hollywood storytelling and video marketing to drive interest among prospects and encourage them to do business with you. In Kathy’s new […]

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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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Crowdfunding: Is Entrepreneurial Acceleration Headed Our Way?

The more I look into crowdfunding, specifically the coming of equity crowdfunding, the more I’m intrigued by the democratization of capital infusions it should soon represent for entrepreneurs. For those who are unfamiliar with it, “crowdfunding” refers to networks of individuals who pool their money through websites to support the efforts of individuals or organizations.

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Going forward, we’ll realize that “marketing automation” is really “marketing assistance”

In my December blog post, I predicted that 2014 would be the year of the great marketing U-turn. My third of three predicted trends was that we’d become more successful at using marketing automation to move prospects through the sales funnel, and I promised to write more on that later. Here goes. As Carabiner takes

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New Year, Better Organization: Does Your Business Need an Intranet?

Outside of client related activities, I spent a large portion of 2013 dedicated to the creation of our agency’s first intranet. We’ve grown significantly over the last few years and day-to-day tasks – things like sharing files and locating forms – had begun to impact productivity. As our circle grew, it was becoming increasingly more

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