Category Archive: Business

Feb
19

Adversity And Life’s Most Important Lessons Part 1

These last 18 months besides running iFusion Marketing, I’ve been privy to an executive’s bumpy professional journey that had recently found a good ending. As with most things in life, it is from the journey and how we travel it that defines us and from which we derive life’s most important lessons. I will be …

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Jan
03

The Business of Business Cards

Business card infographic

A new year brings changes and new beginnings. The checklist in starting a new business is often long and tedious. Some items are easily taken care of and others a little more difficult. Among the marketing items, the website, Linkedin company profile and even Facebook page get all the attention but little is given to …

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Aug
12

5 Tips to Turn Marketing Agencies into Partners

Even though my consultancy iFusion Marketing works primarily with start-ups, in our brief 5-year history, we have encountered all manner of management styles, value systems and personalities. Most successful tech start-up founders share common traits of intelligence, tenacity, desire for precision and a certain level of tunnel vision that allows them to continue on their …

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Jul
16

Black Hat PR + Winning at All Costs

google vs facebook

It appears that the ongoing war between Facebook and Google is threatening to boil over yet again. Fresh from the embarrassing smear campaign that Facebook hired Burson-Marsteller to conduct in the media against Google in May this year, it looks like Brin and Co. may be taking the PR offensive this go around. Black hat …

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