Archive for November, 2007

Push vs. Pull: Internet shoving match, or marketing tug-of-war? (Part 1)

November 30th, 2007

Every marketing initiative is, at its foundation, either a push or a pull. (What is the difference?) Campaigns may feature a healthy dose of each, but if you boil every move down to its nature, it does one of two things:

It PUSHES your product in front of its target market.

Perhaps the most famous [...]

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Styling your blog content to attract and hold readers

November 27th, 2007

If you’re just getting started as a blogger, there’s some unfortunate news you ought to be aware of. Even though you may spend thirty minutes to an hour each day developing snappy blog content riddled with articulate witticisms and eloquent insight… it’s possible that a lot of your readers will only skim the content, [...]

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Marketing early and often in Growth Mode

November 25th, 2007

Last month, Kristin Edelhauser Chessman wrote a story on Entrepreneur.com entitled “If They Could Turn Back Time” in which a handful of successful entrepreneurs are profiled, and asked what they would have done differently if they could start over.
Notice that three of them — Perfume Bay, Carmelized Productions and NewCondosOnline.com — wished they’d put more [...]

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Blogger Fundamentals - How will this help me sell my product?

November 20th, 2007

Recently, I took on a client who is looking for a new approach to selling a product whose sales have flattened. (Sound familiar?) Her product is a cookbook full of healthy recipes geared toward diabetics; her question was, how is a blog likely to help her generate sales?
Two sentences into my reply, I [...]

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