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Oct 16, 2020 by Paul Bresenden in CEO Coaching
As businesses enter their year-end holiday season and new-year forecasting, we thought it would be helpful to identify 4 trends that we’ve observed working with our clients this year. While some companies are experiencing painful disruption or destruction of their existing business model, many are taking notes of these trends and pivoting accordingly.
Mar 28, 2019 by 454 Creative in Lean Marketing Framework
We often think of marketing and finance as being worlds apart from each other. While both hold essential business functions, marketing and finance can exist in parallel dimensions and seldom interact. However, this way of working is outdated, inefficient and painfully wasteful. The new paradigm of marketing is moving from communication and promotion into one of being a predictable driver of growth for the organization.
Mar 06, 2019 by 454 Creative in CEO Coaching
Welcome to Episode 2 of our podcast - In this episode, we'll learn how our team at 454 Creative worked alongside Rockharbor Church to help them reimagine their content strategy and develop a dynamic new website. Paul sits down with Chad Coltman, Director of Operations, Joe Benson, Director of Technology, Josh Philips, Graphic Design and Parker Munson, Content Manager, to discuss how our Web Audit and Assessment processes and Lean Marketing Framework principles transformed how their team thinks about their online presence.
Dec 19, 2018 by 454 Creative in Lean Marketing Framework
As you begin your annual marketing strategy and budgeting process, consider pushing reset and start at zero for both strategy and budgeting.
Nov 05, 2018 by 454 Creative in Lean Marketing Framework
Congratulations on making the first steps to implement Lean Marketing at your organization. We’ve put together this guide as a way to bring clarity to the operating principles and job function for the marketing team. However, these principles have broad benefit to the entire organization and should be implemented cohesively with the leadership team. Learn the system and execute with diligence. Occasionally, omitting a single step can invalidate the entire system
Oct 22, 2018 by 454 Creative in Lean Marketing Framework
Most organizations have a "hunker down and get stuff done" philosophy. Here’s why sprints have HUGE advantages for your marketing team compared to a traditional "get it done" structure.
Sep 11, 2018 by Paul Bresenden in CEO Coaching
In almost every decision, someone is pushing on “yes” and someone is pushing on “no”. In sales, we assume that it’s the salesperson’s role to push on “yes”. However, the position of power lies with the ability to say “no”.
Sep 10, 2018 by 454 Creative in CEO Coaching
Many CEO's have an incredible obsession with learning. Our CEO, Paul Bresenden, is no exception. On average, PB reads a new book every week. Here are his “must-read” recommendations for 2018.
Aug 08, 2018 by 454 Creative in CEO Coaching
We are always getting calls and emails from different people that are wanting to become referral sources. Unfortunately, these introductions pose as prospects and have been taking up more and more of our partners time. It seems to be a waste of time, rarely do they actually refer clients or the the people they refer are not a good fit for us. Keep your sales process from being hijacked by "potential" partnerships.
May 01, 2018 by 454 Creative in CEO Coaching
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important regulation coming through the European Union that all organizations in the United States should be prepared for. With less than a month left until the deadline for compliance on May 25th, 2018, 454 Creative’s CEO, Paul Bresenden, has put together a video on transactional vs. promotional emails, data collection, and how GDPR affects your business directly.
Apr 05, 2018 in CEO Coaching