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Content management tools have never been more powerful and functional.

Should I be making sales calls?

When it’s your own business, you don’t have the luxury of dislike. ABCI has no sales staff, and any time we spend “selling” is time spent away from serving our current clients. We do make sales calls when necessary. We just keep them to a minimum. Here’s how:

World’s Most Under-rated Marketing Technique – Listening!

The vast majority of the companies we consult with spend entirely too much time, energy and money “putting their message out there” without giving nearly enough attention to the actual living, breathing human beings that they are “putting it out” to. This results in a tone-deaf delivery at best.

Five Myths That Have Exploded in the Last Five Years

The world has changed in the last three years.

Are you still marketing your products and services the same way?

How’s that working for you?

Whether we acknowledge it or not, the world has changed more in the last two or three years. Whether or not we like all the changes, the facts and numbers don’t lie.

What Is It Like to Work With ABCI?

What are the costs and benefits of working with ABCI? How much work does it take, really? And what measurable results can real customers actually expect?

Dave Santo of AeroStar Training Services LLC talks with us about his reservations prior to engaging with ABCI and his experience working with us.

Don’t Be Afraid of Ghostwriters

We all have our strengths and weaknesses, and one thing I’ve noticed (and part of the reason that we chose aviation as a specialty) – there are a lot of aviation professionals who dislike or don’t have time for writing.

Features vs. Benefits, Las Vegas Style

Arriving in Las Vegas by car or by plane, (as many of us did last week for the annual NBAA convention) one has to marvel at the ingenuity of Las […]

Fashion Prediction for NBAA11 – QR Codes!

If we were to make a prediction about what all the “cool kids” (marketers, products and booths) will be wearing at the NBAA Conference this year, it will be that everyone will be using QR Codes! We expect to see them in all shapes and sizes and on all types of marketing materials.

How Many Hooks Do You Have in the Water?

This story, Marrs says, is a perfect illustration of what’s wrong with most businesses, and why they’re always under pressure to find the next client, bend over backwards to accept clients or customers that may not be a good fit, or they are forced to reduce prices to keep a customer. They don’t have enough “hooks out there!”

Making Cash Flow Cycles a Little Less “Exciting!”

I’ve had several versions of this same conversation with people when they ask about marketing.

“The problem is that when business is good, I have no need for marketing. When business is bad, I have no money for marketing!”

“You know what I’m going to say, right?”

“Probably that if I was more consistent with marketing I wouldn’t have this roller coaster going on with my business.”