Mike Coombs

Mike Coombs
Marketing pro, creative, and businessman. Agency and client side experience. Video expert. Masters Degree-Internet Marketing. Certified Inbound Marketer.
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Do you measure what matters? The Pareto Principle… for life.

by Mike Coombs on December 15,2014

As I write this, it’s my daughter Katie’s birthday. We’ll celebrate and measure the years tonight.  We’ll think about what matters.

It’s also the holiday season. We’ll all give a little thought to what matters most to us. I know I will measure what has mattered to me a bit. 

What matters and what do we measure in business?

How testimonial videos make a claim believable

by Mike Coombs on November 11,2014

 

Video is powerful for a wide variety of online selling applications. Obviously pure selling, features, and benefits videos use sight, sound, motion and emotion very effectively. And there are many other ways to sell with video on your website and elsewhere.

One is a testimonial video.

Social Media Marketing: The emperor often has no clothes!

by Mike Coombs on October 27,2014

Is your social media marketing covering your bottom line?

A vain emperor who cares about nothing except wearing and displaying clothes hires two tailors who promise him the finest, best suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position. The Emperor's ministers cannot see the clothing themselves, but pretend that they can for fear of appearing unfit for their positions and the Emperor does the same. (Illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen for the original Hans Christian Anderson story.)

First, if you get my analogy, I'm sorry.  Ouch.
Why do you do social media?  ...

How we produced an effective, affordable online video.

by Mike Coombs on September 29,2014

Video is very persuasive and sticky.  It sells. 

Web viewers will watch a 3 minute video before spending 1 minute reading the same information. By some accounts YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine. YouTube and other video services likeVimeo and our new favorite,  Wistia, make using video on your site very easy.

AND, there are some very sophisticated and interactive ways to make video part of your inbound marketing, selling or training process too.  It's all available. And nothing beats video because...

Video persuades with sight, sound, motion and emotion.