{"id":2108,"date":"2009-09-29T06:50:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T11:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37d57f8fa2.nxcli.io\/blog\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2010-09-16T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T17:10:13","slug":"making-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/advertising\/making-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Making The Old Mistakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You need some new ideas because the old ones aren&#8217;t working. Its time to reinvent your small business advertising, your products, maybe even yourself. But you\u2019re stuck trying to visualize a new system using the old system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like a dog chasing its tail, you keep coming back to the same old place. Let me tell you how to break out of that.<!--more-->The first step is to realize that your small business advertising problem is not unique. Thousands of people have already faced and defeated a problem exactly like yours. The only difference is that back then it was wearing different clothes. So don&#8217;t let the clothing fool you. Underneath, it&#8217;s the same old problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Stephen Sanger was the exceptional CEO of General Mills, a company that makes 1.5 million dollars an hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. When Sanger wanted to improve the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/articles14r\/kept.html\">productivity<\/a> of his factories, he sent his technicians to study the pit crews during a stock car race. At the end of the day the techies came home and reduced the time it took to switch a plant line by 93 percent. What used to shut down Sanger&#8217;s factories for 5 long hours now takes just 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How did Stephen Sanger, a busy CEO, learn to think such unclouded thoughts? Where did he learn to see with such far-sighted clarity? Can you and I likewise learn to quickly identify problems and recognize their solutions? Is there something that we can study? Yes, as a matter of fact, there is, and Stephen Sanger received his degree in it from DePauw University in 1968.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sanger&#8217;s degree is in history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What is History if not a book of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/articles21g\/headlines.html\">creative solutions<\/a>, each one time-tested and true? (And you thought history was boring.) Far from tedious and boring, history is relevant, vibrant and alive. Your problem with history began when a public-school athletics coach who had no real understanding of it introduced you to the subject. Am I right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211; <em>Roy H. 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