As business slows down for the Christmas holidays, this is the perfect time to get ahead of yourself and ensure 2017 starts with a bang. If you are still at a loss, here are five tips to get you started.

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If you are waiting for permission to go out there and succeed - it may never happen. Don't wait for permission, just do it.

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In this week's episode John W. Hayes helps marketers of "boring" products find the inspiration to breath a little excitement into their marketing campaigns.

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In this week's episode John W. Hayes focuses on building retail success and competing with the big online sellers this Black Friday by reading from his book Bricks 'n' Mortar Oughta: What Real World Business can learn from the Internet.

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How many business websites do you land on every day and think to yourself, I have no idea what this company actually does? In their attempt to be smart, they actually bamboozle their target audience and turn away potential customers. This isn’t very smart, and their cost of acquisition, lead flow and sales pipelines will reflect this fact.

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When you work in marketing everyone has an opinion on your creative output. Often they are wrong but because they pay your wages, you can feel the pressure to bow down to their “greater creative knowledge”. When marketing is compromised like this, it loses its impact and often results in failure. It’s time to fight back.

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How do you ensure procrastination doesn’t destroy your productivity? Follow these 10 tips from Becoming THE Expert author John W. Hayes.

I’m talking about Marketing Experts who focus on cash instead of their products or services and the problems they can solve for their customers.

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Short and sweet - how I got lucky in business.

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Going back to the beginning. After many false starts, where I found inspiration to write my first book, the writing process and where I took it after publication. #contentmarketing #socialmedia #emailmarketing #events

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