Archive for 2008

Here’s the kind of interesting marketing discussion goes on at “Stump Markus”!:
Exactly two weeks ago on my Stump Markus broadcast, Mike Corso asked me for ideas to get his emails opened.
Mike owns CoolSiteOfTheDay.com, and I recommended 3 different, scientifically proven subject line boosters.
One idea was to title his email with: “Holy Crap [copy goes here]”
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Do you know when to “Draw the line between Free and Paid”?
This post makes a good point. Many small and home based business people are generous to a fault. They also may want to be loved at any cost and believe giving away their product/service will help them get more in the future. Sadly the [...]

In the wake of a disaster you might see - a TIDE “Loads of Hope” vehicle arrive.
Obviously this helps promote “good will” for their brand and gives customers a sense they’re “helping” when they buy the brand, but it doesn’t dilute (no pun intended!) Tide’s identity by moving outside its field of familiarity.
Here’s how TIDE [...]

First it was the Locavores who wanted locally produced food. But today’s headlines shows that growing food in your spare backyard space may really help you make or at least SAVE money.
Fuel prices are causing grocery costs to skyrocket: Era of cheap food ends as prices surge this article reads. My mother in law [...]

If blogging is part or all of your work at home income system, you may want to check out this book by the “Pro Blogger” himself, Darren Rowse:ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
Here’s how they describe the book:

Blogging has become a popular and fascinating pastime for many, but more and more [...]

One of my Kiva loans just got paid off. For a while, I couldn’t find loans I wanted to fund at Kiva due to a rush of donors who flocked to the site for a while.
Now there seem to be plenty of opportunities and here’s one I decided to lend to today, a Ghanian electrical [...]

How To Tell If A Career In Truck Driving Is For You is a tutorial I wrote because when times are tough and people aren’t making a living at their old job, they tend to think “I can always make a living driving a truck”.
Sadly that’s not always true and people can spend up to [...]

You can find all sorts of cool gadgets here at Trend Hunter.
One break through that caught my attention is this: Inkjet Printed Solar Cells
In an advancement that could radically reduce the cost of making solar panels, Massachusetts-based Konarka Technologies has developed and successfully demonstrated the ability to print solar cells with an inkjet printer. By [...]

CDC: Illness Linked to ‘Total Body’ Supplements   
I thought I’d pass this along. We don’t talk about supplements much here but since we have lots of MLM readers and nutritional supplements are a popular MLM product, I thought I’d pass this along. Learning how your company avoids such problems might be a good sales [...]

If you’re looking to change careers, upgrade your education, etc. as a taxpayer you’ve paid taxes to fund your education.
There’s lots of folks SELLING information that’s purported to help you get FREE GOVERNMENT GRANTS, but this is one I’ve written that’s 1) Free and 2) tells you the most common actual grants you are [...]