05th July 2009
Have you ever wondered why you acted as you did? Why you bought what you did? Why people from a different culture say what they say? Why people buy or don’t buy from you or your business?
Years ago, I remember reading a marketing story in high school...
02nd July 2009
We often need creative ideas for articles and blog posts in internet and affiliate marketing. One thing to consider is what format or kinds of articles and posts we can write.
Seven Kinds of Articles or Posts
(1) How to: Within a given cluster of ke...
05th June 2009
Your business goal on Twitter is to provide customers with what they want and need. To do so, you need to develop relationships with your core 20% clientele base/joint venture folks and to develop trust and earn a reputation for being the go-to business f...
18th May 2009
As we enter a period of possible respite from bear market malaise, it may be worthwhile to ask certain questions about where we are, how we came to our present circumstances, and where we might go from here.
For the present, let us consider the credit ...
18th May 2009
Someone doing a search online spots your article title and a few words about it. Your headline fairly represents your article and touches one or more emotional reason for the viewer to pursue the matter a little further. The viewer wants to allay a fear t...
18th May 2009
Do you remember being asked to write a persuasion essay when you were in school? Have you ever been asked to give a speech, written a page of a website, or participated in a meeting? Ever write a sales letter or product review? Have you ever feared you wo...
18th May 2009
Headlines! Online, they are used for or in articles, videos, blog posts, comments (sometimes), eBooks, websites, emails, PPC ads, profiles, tweets, and so on. Even URLs are like headlines.
The importance of headlines can hardly be underestimated in the...
18th May 2009
As I write, Twitter is a three year old, business-friendly social media site dominated by users in their peak earning years. Although still relatively small in comparison with older giants like MySpace and Facebook, Twitter's recent growth considerably ou...
12th May 2009
People who use search engines are looking for what they want. Search engine operators have a vested interest in providing a list of sites the searchers want. Webmasters and site owners have a vested interest, for our purposes, in finding people that want ...
12th May 2009
How do you get targeted traffic to your online video? First, let me ask why someone want to view your video?
Assuming you have maybe half a second to catch someone's attention when your video comes up, the main hooks you have are the title and the unmo...
12th May 2009
We all fear wolves in sheep's clothing. Many of us have been bitten by the wolves. On the outside, they advertise themselves in attractive or enticing clothes, but on the inside ... well, they deceive in order to steal or otherwise do harm. Lottery scams....
12th May 2009
Seth Godin's little book The Dip advertises itself in the subtitle as teaching the reader "when to quit (and when to stick)." As one may expect, the author encourages pressing through the dip to gain success. The book's singular contribution, however, see...
12th May 2009
Robert Prechter (Socionomics) made a twin contrarian observation giving profound and substantive explanation for where we are in our economic trends: One, we humans behave emotionally as one moving herd, and two, our herd emotions are the cause rather tha...
12th May 2009
In a given world with no justice, all is forgiven. But this devalues the coinage of both justice and forgiveness into oblivion. In a world with no forgiveness but perfect justice, even love collapses into a justice that would drive every person to bittern...
12th May 2009
What qualifications should you look for in a potential affiliate marketing coach and what questions should you ask yourself about the deal? Who should you hire and how should you go about looking?
Well, for starters, you can ask yourself what is in it ...
