Why giving away your best ideas gives you an edge

Brian Carroll
4 min readMay 14, 2019

I had coffee with a potential partner, and our conversation ebbed to us talking about business philosophy, marketing, and driving growth.

I talked about how freely sharing ideas and helping people is crucial to building trust.

He replied something like, “I think companies [like yours] give away too many of their trade secrets on their website and blogs…

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Brian Carroll

CEO and founder of @markempa and @b2bleadblog, empathy and B2B marketing speaker, author, blogger, coach/advisor, husband of @asvdw, and Dad to three daughters