Archive for 2008

If you’re doing “direct response marketing”, one technique you may have heard about is newspaper inserts.
I was talking to a marketer who’s been doing inserts in the insurance field over 20 years. It turned him from underpaid agent into a well to do business man. He basically no longer uses newspaper inserts. Why? Two […]

“Web 2.0″ is “all about” social networking. The received wisdom is that, if you don’t have user generated content, you’re going to be left behind in terms of internet marketing. Possibly…at least until the next thing, whatever that is. But if this is something you’d like to explore, then you’ll be happy to know that […]

I just sold one of my websites for a nice chunk of change. I used WordPress to create a largely “static” site designed to market affiliate products. The “blog” capability was an extra feature.
So I keep on the lookout for nice WordPress themes. Here’s a producer of Free Wordpress Themes I’ve come to like… and […]

How much are you spending on marketing your business?
Most people buy the distributor kit and HOPE something will happen. Usually it’s not that simple.
Do you have a set amount you are going to spend monthly? Do you have a system for getting new business?
Usually businesses find key ways to find new customers, pour time […]

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A California real estate investor is going to lose his home plus 9 investment properties to foreclosure according to this report at Reuters
Shawn Forgaard, a 37-year-old software company project manager, bought one home for his family to live in and nine more as investments. He stands to lose all the investment houses in the mortgage […]

The free market is starting to do what the politicians keep rambling about… actually respond to consumers.
That’s good for small business and work at home business because work at home businesses tend to stay part time because owners fear they cannot obtain reasonably priced health care coverage.
But with so many individual consumers seeking health insurance, […]

When the “normal” economy is causing a financial pinch, people turn to folks who have developed their own methods for surviving without lots of cash. In this case it’s the Amish.
This reminds me of a family I know who got started in business just this way. They started buying “bents and dents”… often from insurance […]

I must have spring fever. I keep thinking about gardens.
Now while I’m building a Square Foot Garden, just for some fresh tomatoes, some activity, and to save some money, I’m checking some other things too.
Have you heard of the AeroGarden? (See below)
It’s an “aeroponic” (as opposed to “hydroponic”) gardening system. I’m thinking of getting […]

According to Bloomberg, there’s 650,000 homes in foreclosure in the United States out of 18 million.
One real estate investor quoted in the article had this to say:
“This country needs a cleansing,” billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell, chairman of Equity Group Investments LLC, said yesterday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles. “We […]