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Why measuring the ROI on your advertising is much harder than you think
There is never a week goes by that I’m not asked how to measure the Return on Investment (ROI) from digital and direct advertising. At...

Chris Barrow
Jun 28, 20173 min read


Reflections on Saturday’s Facebook post and what I have learned from it
Warning – this post refers to the use of bad language and may offend. Well that was quite a weekend – at least what was left of it after...

Chris Barrow
May 15, 20174 min read


The 2 choices you now have to make in marketing – and you won’t like either of them
Marketing is getting simpler – because the world is getting noisier. To paraphrase Seth Godin, you either have to: SHOUT louder than the...

Chris Barrow
May 8, 20171 min read


Why Reviews are becoming so much more important in your marketing – and why you cannot just re
Last Autumn Google announced that they would be pulling in other platform reviews into their organic search and this is now beginning to...

Chris Barrow
Apr 7, 20172 min read


Why it’s OK to wait 17 years for a client/patient to say “yes”
I’ve previously explained that the world record for the length of time it took a dentist to make up his mind to hire me was 17 years...

Chris Barrow
Mar 23, 20173 min read


The Unsupervised Algorithm
This morning’s news about Google (that they are losing big corporate advertising accounts following the revelation that those same...

Chris Barrow
Mar 20, 20172 min read


Mastermind Groups and Adventures
Mastermind Groups Firstly, I want to thank the 100 or so people who responded to my Survey Monkey questions last week around the...

Chris Barrow
Jan 17, 20172 min read


A new home for the Coach Barrow blog
The new web site is live at www.coachbarrow.com and, whilst we are still snagging the site as we go along, I welcome you to the latest...

Chris Barrow
Sep 27, 20162 min read


Using Facebook and Mobile Apps To Promote Your Business
Mobile phones are extremely popular devices these days. There are over 7 billion mobile phones in the world today. Mobile application...

Chris Barrow
Jul 2, 20162 min read


Your Digital Reputation
In 1995, software engineer Craig Newmark created a private email distribution list to keep his friends informed on local events in the...

Chris Barrow
Jun 20, 20163 min read


Interrogating the data
As a dental practice owner or marketing manager, you live in a world of data that can be interrogated in order to improve your marketing...

Chris Barrow
Jun 6, 20162 min read


The necessity of becoming two-faced
In the past, two-faced was a term used to describe those who presented contradictory opinions to different groups. The objective was to...

Chris Barrow
Jan 6, 20163 min read


Do pictures still paint a thousand words?
In spite of inaccurate attribution to Confucius and other proverb-makers, the term “use a picture, it’s worth a thousand words” can first...

Chris Barrow
Nov 24, 20152 min read


Efficient or Extraordinary?
Surprise is potent. A client or patient will smile or sing about the delightfully unexpected. They will simmer or roar at the...

Chris Barrow
Oct 6, 20151 min read


The Positive Focus
Yesterday was day 28 of 28 of my Positive Focus campaign. I’ve been posting every day to my Facebook profile. The rules are simple: take...

Chris Barrow
Sep 29, 20152 min read


Video spamming in Edinburgh
Hi Chris Have you see this?? Or seen this elsewhere?? Might be worth letting the tribe know that this is out there cos it looks SO BAD!...

Chris Barrow
Mar 11, 20101 min read


Facebook and employee confidentiality
Since the New Year began, I’ve had more then on email along the following lines: “Chris What would your thoughts and actions be if a...

Chris Barrow
Feb 23, 20102 min read


Just in case you were wondering..
Yes – I am back from holiday and started work again on Tuesday like many others. I’ll admit that I made a mistake – and that was to...

Chris Barrow
Sep 3, 20092 min read


Chris Barrow’s week of Twitters
peace and solitude at my desk this morning, before a long drive to Leeds # you can never win a price war – so you must win the customer...

Chris Barrow
Jul 19, 20091 min read
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