The Danger of Originality

The Danger of Originality: “Don’t always seek to Invent; Innovate instead.” There is massive difference between innovation and invention. The classic example is trying to re-invent the wheel, what massive waste of energy to come up with a square wheel that works? Innovation is taking the wheel as it was invented and then improving on [...]

Solving Your Customer’s Problems

Solve Your Customer’s Problems: “It is easier to sell a solution to a problem than to sell a positive benefit.” The word ‘Guerrilla’ has been traditionally used in conjunction with, and with special reference to ‘warfare’. ‘Guerrilla warfare’ is an irregular type of warfare which regularly entails conflicts involving small groups of fighters, often including [...]

Make Your Business Convenient

Make Your Business Convenient: “Design your business to be customer-convenient and make your cash register ring.” In the words of Jay Conrad Levinson, “Guerrilla Marketing started out as a single volume and has since acted biblically by being fruitful and multiplying into a library of 58 volumes and counting”. We would call that pretty darn [...]

Case Study: How Aaron Patzer Made $170 Million in Two Years

In 2007, Aaron Patzer launched Mint.com as a user-friendly alternative to Quicken. Now, just two short years later, Intuit, which makes Quicken, paid over $170 million for his website. So how’d he do it? Let’s take a look shall we and see how we can apply this to your business. Inc Magazine offers 5 quotes [...]