Archive | Marketing
Do You Act Different When the Boss is Around?
I have had many different types of jobs in many different fields, but there is one thing that remained consistent from job to job. The manager always acted all brand new when his boss showed up. Suddenly, procedures we had been following at the managers request were “wrong” and the manager admonished us for doing [...]
Why You Should Be Using Foursquare For Your Business
A few days ago on Black Web 2.0, I covered the reasons why you should be using Foursquare for your business and briefly touched on the specific strategies involved. In addition to reading that post (linked below), you should take a look at this awesome slideshare presentation by Chris Breikss (President of 6S Marketing Inc.) [...]
Never Listen To Marketers About Social Media
There is a serious scam going on in the social media world and I’m tired of seeing people get got. Marketing has come a long way, changed a lot, and still remained the same. The problem is that the pillars of the MLM community are fooling you with a false narrative. They want you to [...]
Are You The Crazy Person On The Train?
The Key to Closing the Social Media Sale
Image via Wikipedia Recently caught a post by one of my favorite bloggers, Steven Hodson over on Winextra Shooting Bubbles (gratz on the rebrand!). He was talking about The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of SEO and Marketers. The post basically covers how marketers jump into the social media space and flail around with [...]
Did You Get Caught Trying to Boost Your Follower Count?
Twitter is gaining popularity, attracting people of all types. They talked about Twitter on The View. George Stephanopoulos interviewed twitterviewed John McCain. P. Diddy has jumped in with both feet, keeping us updated and motivated (Let’s Go!!!). As always, with great power comes great responsibility…wait…I mean when a social service’s numbers blow up, most of [...]
Top SEO Tips That Worked For Me
Let me start of by ensuring you that I am no expert on Search Engine Optimization or SEO as they like to call it. I’m just a guy who started blogging and realized I needed to find a way to get more web site traffic. Not really sure how I came to that decision, but [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Ignore My Ads
You may have noticed the ad block in the sidebar here. I think that has been pretty consistent since the beginning. What you may not realize is that all the ads on my site are actual endorsements. Wait…let’s back up… On most blogs, you will probably find contextual advertising. Blocks of advertising that try to [...]
How To Run a Contest On Your Blog
One of the best things you can do to drive traffic to your blog is to run a contest. I recently came across a blog doing just that with some awesome prizes. Visit the site and enter the contest here. How Does A Contest Get Me Traffic? Well, don’t you like to win stuff? Of [...]
Make Sure Your Tweeps Know What The Bizness Is
I noticed I get a lot of Twitter updates regarding bloggers publishing new blog posts, so I figured there must be a WP pluging to do so. A quick search turned up Twitter Updater: The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress [...]
Fund Your Business With Rejections
This is a quick video I did to illustrate the importance of a Funded Proposal system. I just go over the basics of what it is and how to use it for those that don’t already know. Have something to add? Want to correct me? Feel free to leave a comment
The 7 Great Half-truths of Network Marketing
There is a great ebook I read once. You have probably heard of it and if you haven’t read it, you should. I think some of the points of that book are somewhat dated or I guess just don’t apply to the businesses I do, so I decided to express my opinions on those points. [...]
You Are NOT a Salesperson
People seem to have a huge misconception about network marketing and the people who are involved with it. They seem to think that this is an industry of salespeople. This is a perception that not only prevents many people from succeeding in this industry, but it prevents many people outside of the industry from benefiting [...]
Doh! You Forgot to Close!
You are having a great conversation with a prospect. You have related on many different levels. You’ve laughed, you’ve cried, you’ve discussed personal issues. You even find out that you may be related or once lived in the same neighborhood. Everything is going great. You really feel like you can help this person to succeed [...]




