Archive - April, 2009

Changing Times

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth

Change Equals SurvivalAs the old saying goes, “The times they are a changing.” For those of you who are not regular readers of the Myatt on Mondays posts, Monday is the day that I often set aside to answer questions from readers. However in today’s post I’m going to switch things up a bit and ask you to answer a question posed by me. While I have given frequent counsel about how to successfully navigate the many challenges posed by these uncertain economic times, my question is this: “In the last 90 days what proactive changes have you made within your business which have placed you in a better position to survive the changing economic conditions that are presently vexing many a CEO?” In the text that follows I’ll give you a few places you might want to look at if you haven’t already…



 

Website Traffic Analysis

By, Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth

No Traffic Equals No RevenueSubjecting your website’s traffic to intense analysis is the key to breaking the code for improving conversion ratios and watching your success on the Internet skyrocket. Understanding the basic logic surrounding this premise, it amazes me how few companies truly understand the key metric in driving website success…traffic. In today’s post I’ll share a bit of information that will help you gain a better understanding of the value of website traffic analysis…  



 

Crisis Management Can Be Profitable

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth 

Don't let them tumble...Crisis management can in fact be a profitable endeavour when handled properly. If you are in business for any length of time you will at some point in time be party (willing or unwilling) to a major crisis that can affect not only the company you work for, but your career as well. A large portion of my practice deals with advising corporations and executives during a crisis to protect the corporate brand and the personal reputations of senior executives and board members. Given that in today’s business world, the likelihood of crisis is much greater than it was in times past, it never ceases to amaze me that corporations don’t have a crisis management team assembled and on hand ready to deal with trouble when it rears its head. The reality is that the proper handling of a crisis while never easy, can in fact be a very profitable endeavour. In today’s post I’ll discuss the upside of crisis management…



 

Social Media Marketing

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth
Social Media Marketing
Social Media marketing will be critical to your businesses success moving forward. If you don’t have a well conceived and deftly executed social media strategy it will be difficult to drive brand equity in an ever increasing consumer driven market. Our social media practice is the fastest growing segment of our business simply because of the demand-side pull from the market place. Consumers won’t engage with companies and brands they do not trust, and in today’s world trust is most effectively established via social validation on the Internet. How times have changed…



 

Life Isn’t Fair…

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth
Nat a laughing matter
Life is not fair, but our President sure thinks it should be…The willingness to take risk, a solid work ethic, personal responsibility, and accountability don’t seem to count for anything in the eyes of our new administration.  Obama’s actions at the G20 summit should be of great concern to all Americans. Taking steps to weaken our position in the world might be politically correct, but it sure isn’t very bright…



 

Clinton’s Science Advisor

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth

Nina FedoroffIn a BBC interview, Secretary of State Clinton’s Science Advisor, Nina Fedoroff stated: ”We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can’t support many more people,”  When Fedoroff was pressed further on the subject she responded by saying “There are probably already too many people on the planet.” Fedoroff’s quotes reminded me of one of my late father-in-law’s sayings…he had a phrase he liked to use when something struck him as utterly ridiculous…he would just shake his head and say: “no wonder the Russians are ahead.” In today’s post I’ll examine the relationship between populist theory and fact…



 

A Real Interview

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth

This is one of the most riveting interviews I’ve ever watched on TV. It is a true pleasure to watch a real interview in which a public official is actually held accountable for their actions. There were no softball questions here…When are elected officials going to realize that we don’t place them in office to impose their personal opinions/agendas on private citizens? I don’t care how this AG “feels” about the AIG bonuses. In fact, in his position he should have no professional “opinion” at all…he should be opinion neutral and just enforce the law. What a concept…



 
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