Archive for the 'marketing' Category

Change This With Seth Godin & Debbie Weil

Monday 7 August 2006 @ 08:45 pm

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. First I need to tell you about Change This. It’s the kind of site that when you find it, you can’t believe that you didn’t already know about it.
I don’t know if they were bad, or just purposely subversive but [...]

How To Not Be A Starving Artist

Thursday 20 July 2006 @ 07:07 am

I came very close to titling this post “Money of Art” but since every post that makes it on to the top of a social bookmarking site starts with “how to” I just couldn’t do it.
In my last post I mentioned that I used to own a woodworking business. I made hand crafted photo frames, [...]

Has the Internet Killed the Art of Writing?

Sunday 25 June 2006 @ 09:26 pm

I’ve figured it out…the biggest oversight online.
Do you know that if you Google “SEO” it returns 151 million results. In a nutshell it is the art of trying to present the exact magic website formula to the search engines to rank highly on the results pages. Many companies charge thousands of dollars a month to [...]

10 Wackiest E-Commerce sites

Thursday 20 April 2006 @ 12:11 pm

Wired has an interesting list of the 10 Wackiest E-Commerce sites. There’s some fun stuff in there list including:

ThinkGeek - selection of geek toys and gadgets.
Branch, a store that vends recyclable iPod nano cases, a $3,000 table made from recycled paper, and a $12 bonsai tree in an aluminum can.
Threadless, which accepts design submissions, puts [...]

Psychotactics.com

Monday 17 April 2006 @ 09:11 pm

Psychotactics.com = great marketing strategy articles. Be sure and check out the power point tips…brilliant.

Email List Tools & Notes

Monday 3 April 2006 @ 06:32 pm

I think I’m finally getting it…that making money online isn’t all about AdSense! Okay I’m a little slow, but I see that the list is where real money is to be made. As my buddy Jscott says Adsense is like crack…easy to get addicted to but it makes you stupid.
Why take a customer and earn [...]

3 Things To Do Before You Submit To Article Directories

Friday 24 March 2006 @ 09:59 am

To all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills back.
With modern communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is why article writing, [...]

Hamburgers By The Bagfull

Tuesday 7 March 2006 @ 04:01 am

Flickr image by Patrick Q.
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”  Bill Cosby
I’m wonderting if they could get anymore mixed messages on that sign? That Panda doesn’t really seem to be enjoying the idea of eating that burger much either. Maybe he’s hoping the chicken [...]

Business Value Chain for a Blog

Tuesday 28 February 2006 @ 09:58 pm

To continue the series of business basics [the fist segment was Business Strategy], this story is about the business value chain.
Once your business has chosen its strategy, the next step is to implement the strategy through its value chain:
A value chain is the way a business adds value for its customers by processing inputs into [...]

5 Bad Words You Should Never Say

Monday 27 February 2006 @ 08:31 pm

I just discovered a great online resource for online businesses. Check out Jim Edwards’ low tech website I Gotta Tell You. Despite the low key style the information is solid and the marketing techniques are first rate.
Jim’s current passion is online video and his current video is 5 Bad Words You Should Never Say in [...]