Archive for the 'Marketing' Category

This is some pretty smart marketing. Here’s a lady who represents a network marketing operation thats product is discounted health related services. With the “rising cost of health care” all over the news, she’s positioned herself as the “welcome guest” instead of an “awful pest”. That’s pretty good marketing if you ask me. Here’s the [...]

I was talking to someone the other day who delivers pizza. He said he was thinking about getting into real estate because he noticed all the people moving in from other parts of the country who had plenty of money to buy new homes. He’s spent his life here and knows good places for people [...]

Here’s an interesting question. How do you go about marketing online small business advertising to small businesses. You know they NEED it. But how do you communicate that need and offer them a solution. Here’s a service that is being promoted heavily because it offers readers like you who sign up for the information the [...]

If you’re selling your work at home business products or services at a tradeshow, flea market, or anywhere else offline, you know you can sell more, get more impulse buys, and make more money if you take credit cards. But for most people, getting a merchant account, the required terminal, and all that is just [...]

I ran across this blog on Street Painting (actually chalk drawing). I know we spend lots of time in the internet age thinking about internet marketing, search engine optimization, back links and all the technical stuff designed to get people seeing your site, but for generating word of mouth, foot traffic and “Wow”, this type [...]

It’s easy to bemoan what we don’t have. We can complain because we’re not a huge marketing giant like Wal Mart. But in my own personal experience, lots of times I go to smaller stores so I don’t have to march a mile in, a mile through the store, and a mile back to the [...]

Can LeadVine.com help grow your business? If you’re just pitching spammy “get rich quick” posts – probably not. Then it might get you lynched. But if you have something to sell, a product or service, you never know. It might just work. It sure sounds like a good idea. I’ve personally got “Social Website Fatigue” [...]

Here’s something from the BBC supporting the “Six Degrees of Separation Theory” “Six Degrees of Separation Theory” states that any given person is only six referrals away from anyone else in the world. Microsoft researchers studied the addresses of 30bn instant messages sent during a single month in 2006. Any two people on average are [...]

Becky McCray alerted me to this story and G.L. Hoffman’s comments. It reminded of the “Where’s George?” website that lets people track where their dollar bills have been by the bill’s serial number. This little country girl wrote her name and address on an egg sold at the town market. The egg ended up on [...]

Editor’s Note: Writing sales letters is a skill. Top writers command a huge fee and tell YOU when you will get your letter. So often we have to begin writing our own sales letters.  Here are some tips until you hit the big time!  By Michael Angelo Caruso http://www.EdisonHouse.com All writers should know how to create a [...]