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People Don’t Want to Buy Your Product or Service

One of the most difficult things for business owners to get a handle on is the true perspective of the needs and desires of their clients or customers.  Because we spend so much time working on, perfecting, and promoting our products or services – over time, we get caught up in how awesome our product...
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The great is a succession of little things that are brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh

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More Isn’t Better, Better is Better

I find it interesting as I begin evaluating prospective clients how infatuated they are with a single metric in their lead generation – volume. Search volume, click volume, impressions, number of calls – whatever it is they watch it like a hawk and sadly make a lot of decisions based on it alone. I think...
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Possession of my entire soul

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in...
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Google is Not Your Friend

Google’s Stupidity Tax

Pay Per Click is probably the most valuable and effective marketing medium in the history of the world.  But it can be extremely costly if you don’t know what you’re doing. Google has what my friend Perry Marshall calls “a stupidity tax” which means that every way that you misunderstand your customer and their intent...
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Unlimited Traffic – A Real Life Case Study in Google AdWords

Unlimited traffic?  It sounds like a pipe dream or only a theoretical concept, but in fact it is not only an actual possibility – it will always happen in any online market when someone does a few simple things just a little better than their competition. On the internet, things operate on 90/10 vs. 80/20...
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Essential Books

80/20 Sales and Marketing Book Cover
80/20 Sales and Marketing
January 28, 2025
Trust Me I'm Lying Book Cover
Trust Me I’m Lying – Confessions of a Media Manipulator
February 15, 2025
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Blue Ocean Strategy
February 26, 2025

What They Say

“He rebranded our company, fixed our marketing, and got us noticed and absorbed by an Italian manufacturer. He knows his stuff.”
– Ray Lopez, Blackhawk Armory


“As a direct result of Dane’s insights and intuition we are generating an additional $350,000 per year that we would have never seen.” – Joel Bauer


“I’ve worked Dane on several of my projects over the past 15 years and can confidently say he knows how to compete in tough markets.” – Martin Howey


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