Strategic Online Marketing Tip: Don’t be a Twitiot
Twitiot: An individual who doesn’t recognize the importance of social networking; B) An individual who can’t understand the simplicity of working with Twitter. Would you like a better explanation? Take a look at my picture on the About Me page – I’M the Twitiot. I actually fit part B definition the best. After two Master’s Degrees in the medical field, on-the-job training for three years in marketing at a top children... [Read More...]
Strategic Online Marketing Tip: Heads Up, Eyes Open
If you are anything like me most days you get up, put your head down and power through your “list of things to do”. Sometimes I’m up until midnight to get the bare minimum done and struggle to accomplish those little extra bits that pad the Paypal account. But what most of us forget is that inspiration comes from those fleeting moments when we pay attention to what is going on around us. The radio, television, bookstore, parades,... [Read More...]
Customer Service: Put Your Customer First
How many companies that you deal with (either online or offline) really put their customers first? In your business are customers ‘people’ or ‘prospects’? Are you more interested in helping your customer or padding your merchant account? Think about Disney. If you’ve never been there you should know that when you walk through the gate you are immediately treated with respect, a smile and with genuine concern from... [Read More...]
There Are Valuable Lessons In Our Failures
Working in the field of Internet Marketing keeps many entrepreneurs from sharing their successes and failures with others who work in the same business. We have to learn to evaluate our own failures and successes and pick them apart to get the valuable lessons that are in each and every one of them. But it goes beyond our own projects. The lessons we learn can be learned from friends, relatives, spouses, children, people in the grocery store, advertising... [Read More...]
Interruption Killed Production
Do you work out of an office or your home? For most entrepreneurs the initial (and sometimes later) years are spent at the kitchen table. Some of the lucky few have an office space in their homes. And the TRULY lucky have an office with an all important DOOR. Ask any time management guru and you’ll find that research has proven that we accomplish more work when we use uninterrupted chunks of time. No interruption from the children –... [Read More...]
