Marketing Success Tips for the Little Guy

Are you invested is gold? Seems almost everyone these days is. You should take a look...   Gold price falls $140 – 9 percent – in a single day. Here are four reasons the two-year decline in the gold price is accelerating.  http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0415/Gold-price-biggest-tumble-in-30-years            

  One of the best strategies for generating traffic from Squidoo is to:     Choose a topic carefully. You want your Squidoo lenses to be focused around a specific topic, rather than spread out to cover multiple niches.   Once you have traffic flowing into your Squidoo lenses, you can quickly expand your outreach by developing additional lenses on other topics.   Create 10-20 articles on your chosen topic, being careful not to keyword stuff! You want you incorporate relevant keywords into your content but you want to be careful that your material is comprehensive and won’t be penalized in the search engines or deemed inappropriate by Squidoo.   Create a Squidoo lens for each of your articles. Your articles should be between 500-800 words long. You can write one lengthy article per Squidoo lens and break it up into smaller segments, utilizing Squidoo’s option to incorporate content boxes within your lens. Include image...

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Boy-oh-boy do I run into the winners when I'm trying to hire! Here's a very recent story (today) that happened in a phone interview for a telemarketing/salesperson: I ran and ad; D. answered it claiming to be "Mr. Sales Pitch." All looked good, so I responded with more particulars and also reiterated the pay and hours to start. D. requested we speak and seemed amendable with particulars. I thought we were on the right track and called him looking forward to answering questions about my services, what he'd be selling, customers to target, etc. You know, typical interview questions about the job. I had outlined hours and pay in the emails TWICE so I figured that was acceptable. D. made the basic mistakes and the call resulted in an abrupt ending. Here's how D. approached it: First, it was all about him; not one question about services or products or prices or how he'd be paid or what I needed...not one. The call focused on D. and his demands for ...

      At first thought, the idea of holding your own teleseminar might seem as out-of-reach as starting your own professional basketball team. As you'll discover in the next few pages, however, that's simply not the case. Teleseminars aren't just for the likes of Tony Robbins, John Grey, and Suze Orman. In fact, thousands of internet marketers, small business owners, and solo professionals regularly use teleseminars to reach new audiences, establish themselves as experts, and create new products. And so can you. Some people charge thousands to teach you how to master the fine art of teleseminars, but you really won't need to spend that kind of money to learn the ropes. Teleseminars don't have to be flashy events with slick graphics, big-name speakers, and four-figure price tags. Instead, most of the best teleseminars are much more down to earth. They're a lot like traditional seminars, except that they are usually less formal and presented over...

Most sellers and buyers on fiverr are great, polite and helpful people. But then you run into the bad seed and it tends to ruin it for others, as it makes you wary and frustrated. Here are some tips and horror stories from dealing with the fiverr community. 1) Be as helpful and professional as possible. This means answer messages promptly, end with a "thank you" and don't oversell your other gigs. If you have other gigs, you can let people know about them, but don't add a laundry list of them in your delivery messages (read: desperate, clueless about marketing). 2) Don't act as if you're doing someone a favor when they buy your cheapo offer. Just because it is only $5, it doesn't mean it should be any less than a full-flavored delivery. In other words, if you got a sample of a cookie, should it be less tasty just because it's free or discounted? 3) Don't threaten or harass: Here is a copy of a message from a seller who got negative feedbac...

Get it on amazon!     Social media is fast becoming one that centers on the creating and sharing of content. The Internet, however, is already full of content, with billions upon billions of sites just sitting there – waiting to be opened.   This is why we are going to cover one helpful social media platform for marketing purposes: social bookmarking.   The whole concept of social bookmarking works this way involves the finding, classification and sharing of websites. These websites are saved or “bookmarked” on online servers, unlike regular bookmarking which saves the address of a website on a single computer.   These social bookmarks are then accessible by other people, who are often connected in one way or another to the person who originally bookmarked the site – thus introducing the “social” aspect of social bookmarking.   Social Bookmarks: The BIG Picture   Unlike other social media platfo...