{"id":83,"date":"2005-06-07T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officeondemand.ca\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-09-30T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T15:55:18","slug":"who-uses-your-marketing-manuals-and-your-marketing-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/marketing-tools\/who-uses-your-marketing-manuals-and-your-marketing-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Uses Your Marketing Manuals and Your Marketing Services?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get calls from a huge range of interesting people looking for help with their marketing plan and their marketing strategy, and people interested in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/marketing-coaching.html\"><strong>marketing services<\/strong><\/a>. In addition to VPs of marketing at Fortune 500 companies, typical types of small business owners, service professionals and marketing professionals, my customers and clients include some of what I think of as unusual occupations. For fun I&#8217;ve listed a few here.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever questioned whether the ideas in my <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/marketing-tools.html\">marketing manuals<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/marketing-coaching.html\"><strong>marketing services<\/strong><\/a> could you help you grow your business, take a look at the range of people, below, who have used these ideas to grow theirs. Here&#8217;s the list:<\/p>\n<p>A bush pilot in Alaska looking for ideas on selling ads during her traffic reports<\/p>\n<p>Santa Claus. A jolly fellow in Utah (no not the one at the North Pole) who looks like Santa and changed his legal name to Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>A cemetary plot salesman in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>A wholesale flower business importing roses and carnations from Columbia by overnight air.<\/p>\n<p>A West Texas agriculture equipment salesman.<\/p>\n<p>A consultant providing drumming workshops for corporate retreats (yes he lives on the west coast).<\/p>\n<p>A kite store owner in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The General Manager of an independent resort in Darwin, Northern Territory of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>A fabricator of granite countertops.<\/p>\n<p>A franchise consultant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; more coming.<\/p>\n<p>Have an unusual business that&#8217;s not on this list? Buy one of my manuals or use me as your marketing coach and I&#8217;ll add it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Charlie Cook<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/e7d87c04-83a7-4728-8f9a-866ff702ff9f\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; FLOAT: right; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=e7d87c04-83a7-4728-8f9a-866ff702ff9f\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get calls from a huge range of interesting people looking for help with their marketing plan and their marketing strategy, and people interested in my marketing services. In addition to VPs of marketing at Fortune 500 companies, typical types of small business owners, service professionals and marketing professionals, my customers and clients include some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,15],"tags":[192,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}