Marketing Tip #4: Goggle Someone Before Spamming Someone

Hundreds of emails come in every week.
Some of them I’m expecting, a lot of them I’m not.
Because of my rankings I have the privilege of being slammed by everybody and their brother about how wonderful their deal is OR pitching me on how they can help me improve my search engine rankings–within hours no less.
I [...]

Process of Inspiration OR Blogging Without Obligation

Dear friend,
Sometimes the progression of inspiration amazes me. Sharing thoughts, feelings and experiences here has become a part of me. There is a special place in my heart for the time spent writing to you.
What amazes me is how you all inspire me, give me hope and make me smile when you choose to write [...]

I Don’t Want to Sell

Those words have been repeated to me more times than I can count in my years of marketing. The number of people who are in network marketing who don’t want to, let alone knowing how to sell their product is astonishing.
I remember getting a call from a networker in the travel industry. He was telling [...]

Widgets and Information Distribution

Get this widget!
I’ll be the first to tell you: When it comes to widgets and gadgets for marketing purposes I’m not really the first one to jump. The widget I came across on Logic+Emotion changed the way I look at widgets.
David expresses it well: Here’s the long and short of it–if you’re going to produce [...]

Forum Marketing: Making Conversation Work For You

Building relationships through forums is a terrific, community based way to both market your business and make friends. If you were to go to some of the forums I frequent you would find post counts in the 80-100 range and growing all the time. There are many who have far more posts number in the [...]

It’s Meme Time: Useful Websites Tag

Dwayne at Genuine Curiosity tagged me awhile back asking me to take part in a 5-spot meme. The idea is to pick 5 websites which are the most useful to me, and help me to do my job. I’ve been struggling with finding the Top 5 but have decided to go with the websites I [...]

Sneak Peak

Over the last six weeks I’ve been kept pretty busy. It never ceases to amaze me how quickly a business, its marketing and strategies can shift. One of the things I’ve been working is a move of this blog as well as its recreation.
I’ve mentioned a Mastermind Group which I’ve been learning from and so [...]

Do you know who you are talking too?

Well, do you?
It would be nice if we could just do our thing and wait for the right people to come along and find our business and/or product. Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. After all, if you’re selling sheep shears you wouldn’t aim to talk to the sheep now would you?
A common mistake among [...]

What is RSS?

To put it as succinctly as possible RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.
RSS provides a way to “subscribe” to a particular news or blog site and read each post as the site is updated without going to each individual page. This is accomplished through a program called a “feed reader”.
I use a plug-in for Mozilla [...]

The Network Marketing Nutshell: The Difference between Network Marketing and a Pyramid Scam

Network marketing was the brainchild of a company by the name of California Vitamins, during the 1930’s. They realized new sales representatives were all family and friends of their existing employee base and these individuals were interested in obtaining the products at a lower cost.
They also discovered creating a sales force of many distributors who [...]