Tag Archive: #jargon

How Industry Jargon Is Scaring Your Clients Straight To Your Competitor

Are you speaking a different language to your prospective clients and aren’t even aware of it? I travelled to…

Alan Draper
July 5, 2016
Content Marketing

Of English and AdSpeak

The marketing and communications industry is charged to craft messages and strategies that will move consumers to act. The…

Alan Draper
July 3, 2016
Communications

The Disruption of Buzzword Abuse?

Buzzwords can suck. Whether we’re disrupting, gamifying, innovating, or growth hacking, we’re really just being annoying. Here’s the cherry:…

Alan Draper
June 16, 2016
Content Marketing

4 “Customer” Phrases You’re Probably Mixing Up

Over the last decade, there has been an enormous shift in focus from product to customer. Whereas product quality…

Connor Brooke
June 9, 2016
Customer Experience

How to Overcome Cloud-Computing Jargon

Toyo Ito once said, “architects have made architecture too complex”, and highlighted the need “to simplify it and use…

Alan Draper
May 23, 2015
Cloud Computing

It’s Time to Unlearn the Foreign Language of Business

My mother phoned me yesterday just as I was wrapping up a team meeting in my New York office.…

Connor Brooke
April 25, 2015
Communications

The Difference Between “Sorry” and a Buzzword

The systematic action of saying you’re sorry and using a buzzword have totally opposite effects. Imagine you work at…

James Spillane
December 6, 2013
Customer Experience

How to Eliminate Annoying Business Jargon

We all have business jargon we love to hate, especially words and phrases that have become overused to the…

Jay Leonard
September 22, 2013
Leadership

Marketing with a Purpose: Why Your ‘Why’ Matters More Than Ever

I’ve written a lot about knowing your core purpose and telling that story in marketing. It’s your most important…

Connor Brooke
July 2, 2013
Marketing

Got Marketing Jargon-itis? Kill It Before It Kills Your Business

Jargon gets between you and your customer and it’s one of the biggest challenges in marketing messaging today, regardless…

James Spillane
February 28, 2013
Marketing

Six Ways Poor Marketing Communication Kills Customer Value

The way you communicate with your audience either creates or destroys value. And communicating doesn’t mean that you’re successfully…

Jay Leonard
December 7, 2012
Marketing

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