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Building for Success, The Art of Creative Team Synergy
By: Kevin L. Noe The marketing industry is full of diverse people with unique skill sets to build successful marketing and branding campaigns. Those individuals’ professional inspiration is often found outside the walls of an office; creative sparks come from conversations, media, nature, and not the padded walls of a cubical. Managers of creative teams…
The Advantages of Building Your Team in Challenging Times
By: Jim Stroud One of the most popular topics of discussion these days is the “recession.” It is very popular in the news media and even more evident in search engine trends. For example, check out the dramatic rise in popularity of the term “recession 2023” on Google. The spike in search volume is reminiscent…
How to Find Your Voice of Customer
If I were to ask all the marketers in the room to summarize the feedback they’ve received from their 20 most recent customer conversations, I think we’d all be surprised at how few could do it. There’s no doubt that customer insight is critical to driving business success but capturing it in a meaningful way,…
15 Ways to Tap into Your Peoples’ Passion at Work
Article by Ed King My team and I talk a lot about what really makes employees tick. We seem to always come back to tapping into ones’ passions and purpose at work. Personally, I have always been passionate about uncovering why people behave the way they do. And my personal passion is applying that understanding…
Closing the Gap: Correlating Employee Passion and Potential
Article by Ed King Confucius said, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” While the sentiment might still apply to a few people who followed their childhood dream to become an astronaut or a professional athlete, most of us do work for a living. Unless…
Becoming an Asset in the Hiring Process
We shared in our September BUZZ Newsletter, that Hire Profile has partnered with Setup to create a full-circle solution for our brands to find marketing agency support and top marketing talent. Here is a blog post from Joe Koufman, CEO and Founder of Setup’s interview with Hard Corps marketing. Of course, resumes matter, but…
After a Promotion, Build Your Best Team
Congratulations! You’ve just accepted an offer on a newer, better, faster marketing position. Yes, the VP title will suit you just fine, thank you very much. So now what? According to Michael D. Watkins, author of The First 90 Days, evaluating the various teams you’re inheriting is a critical first step. “The most important decisions…
LinkedIn Power and Pitfalls
Since 2003, we’ve all come to know LinkedIn as the go-to business networking and thought leadership platform. It’s the most powerful resource currently available for job seekers and hiring managers alike. Where else can you hone in on companies with open positions, apply for a job and grow your professional connections within a matter of…
Should Musk Go Hybrid?
The Data Says Yes By now you’ve probably read about Elon Musk’s ultimatum to Tesla employees to return to the office full-time (minimum of 40 hours a week) or resign. If you think this is an indication of things to come, think again. Some brands, such as Tesla, may be in such high demand for…
Company Culture Matters
We’ve all been hearing about The Great Resignation for quite some time now. And although we might be a tad bit weary of this particular news loop, the reality is that it’s affecting everyone’s workplace in one way or another. It’s real and it’s here to stay for a while. Right now, candidates rule the…