Eric D. Nelson

#BeIntentional – #CloseTheLoop – #ConsumeConstantly – And Every So Often, #DrinkABeer

  • Selecting tactics shouldn't be like finding a needle in a haystack

Make the MOST of Your Campaign: Selecting Tactics

So far in this series on making the MOST of your campaign, we’ve talked about: Why your mission matters Setting objectives And creating your strategy That only leaves one more step: Selecting tactics. People often reside in one of [...]

  • Chess is having its moment.

Make the MOST of Your Campaign: Creating Strategy

I often hear people refer to “Facebook” or “email” or “texting” as a campaign “strategy,” when they’re not. Those are the tactics that will help make a strategy successful, but they, themselves, are not the strategy. I’m not a [...]

  • Goals and objectives

Make the MOST of Your Campaign: Setting Objectives

“You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” (Wouldn’t it be nice to know who really said that?) Despite its ambiguous origin story, I love that quote because its essence is in campaign tracking, analyzing and optimizing, which are keys [...]

  • How to put your mission into words

Make the MOST of Your Campaign: Why Your Mission Matters

Renowned speaker, thinker and author Simon Sinek said in his ultra-popular TED Talk about how great leaders inspire action, “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. “People don’t buy what you do, they buy [...]

  • Make the Most of Your Campaign

Make the MOST of Your Campaign: An Introduction

When helping a business develop a campaign, I see people get “strategy” and “tactics” confused all the time. “What’s your strategy?” “Facebook.” Huh? Even worse, I see people completely forget to set objectives for their campaigns. “What do you [...]

  • Kickstart your why with these formulas

How to Kickstart Your Why: Three Formulas

We’ve spent this series talking about how to kickstart your why, what methods you can use to dig, dig, dig into the psyche of your customer and match it up with your purpose for doing business. The One Thing [...]