You may have heard one or more versions of The Hot Dog Vendor Fable. It’s worth repeating at this moment in history.*
Joe was your average Joe. As a young father, he bootstrapped his way into success with a street corner hotdog stand. But then he made a critical mistake. Actually, a very common mistake. A mistake that you and I are at risk of making this very moment.
This is the second article in a series called Biblical Principles for Sales and Marketing. The first article shared five principles that are foundational to Biblical marketing decisions:
1. Love. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. Luke 6:31
Nehemiah felt like pulling his hair out. There they were, set up outside the city wall. Not long before, Nehemiah had confronted the Jews about doing business on the Sabbath. They had been treading grapes, loading up their donkeys with grain, and bringing their products to Jerusalem all on the Sabbath.
Is your personal workload holding back your entire company? Two days in a row I had the same conversation with two different clients. They weren’t completing simple tasks related to key marketing projects, and as a result, were holding up the entire workflow on the projects. All they needed to do was invest a half hour of work, but in the past three weeks or three months they hadn’t gotten to it.
Take a look at this list. All of the following concepts share a common characteristic. Can you identify it?
Primary colors The Godhead A musical chord U.S. government The makeup of a human being
Now that you’ve had a little time to think about it, could you make a good guess? Maybe you’re wondering, What does this have to do with marketing?
What these all have in...
This summer my family and I packed our car, fueled up, and left Pennsylvania for a vacation in which we traversed several states. Each day we made plans to arrive at our destination at a specific time.
We used a GPS to plan our daily excursions and stay on schedule. One feature of a GPS is calculating an estimated arrival time. But somehow, our actual arrival times were rarely what the GPS initially told us! In fact, we often arrived much later. Has this ever happened to you?
Imagine that your product was so unique and popular that it practically marketed itself, many people were excited about its features and performance, and orders were pouring in.
Such is the case for Tesla, an electric vehicle manufacturer.
But now imagine that you can’t manufacture your product quickly enough to meet demand—not even quickly enough to meet your promises to...
His tone was desperate: “How can we increase sales? We’re losing money and are almost out of cash. If something doesn’t change, we’ll be forced to close.”
How would you respond? I could offer heartfelt sympathy, but what good was that? The owners seemed to expect me to hand them a miraculous formula to bail them out of their dilemma.
Their business did not reach this low point...
In 2017, Baystate Outdoor Personia shifted their brand positioning from selling prefab sheds to custom-designed sheds and outdoor solutions. After coming to Rosewood Marketing to do a rebrand, Baystate hired Rosewood to build the new website and manage all aspects of their online marketing, including their pay-per-click (PPC) campaign.
“The podium leaned at 27 degrees.”
That’s the first sentence to a story. Well, really it’s the middle of a story. Let’s start at the beginning.
A few years ago my coworker, Matt, and I participated in a story writing class at the Writers & Artists’ Conference at Christian Light in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Samuel Coons helped us hone the skill of crafting captivating opening storylines.
Our tagline at Rosewood Marketing is “Are You Growing?” Every day, we work to help our clients grow. But growth means change, and change can be difficult.
Sometimes change pushes us out of our comfort zone, and into new frontiers. We encounter change everywhere—at home, at work, at church. Maybe you have wished things would stop changing. Or maybe you have wished something would change and it didn’t!
