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How To Attract Customers When Your Marketing Sucks
Posted On: July 17, 2009Posted In: Blogging Tips, Marketing Tips, Personality and Branding, Video Blogging
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Yeah so..sometimes it’s hard for us to see how much our marketing sucks, since we are so invested in it.
But being agile and able to adapt is very important for sucess, especially when marketing in a personality driven manner.
Have any stories or tips for folks to stay ninja like?
share what’s on ya mind!
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July 17th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Wack Sauce!!!
Don’t give me viddies with no sponsors, Joe. We will riot here in Joeville next time. And was this a first, driving while filming? Hahaha
You make some good points. Sometimes we don’t consider the opportunity cost of our actions and then we are afraid to make a change when things are not going right.
Opportunity cost is what you are losing by engaging in one activity, promotion, plan instead of another. So your next best alternative idea is suffering because you went with another one. And sometimes this second idea is better than the first, thus we are loosing out.
But our fear keeps us stuck in this one particular mode and you find yourself trying everything possible to make it right, so that you don’t have to be wrong.
Don’t follow this line of thinking and scrap bad ideas/directions sooner rather than later.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 17th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Hahaha lol, I know man…I was just feelin it in the car dude!
And yes, opportunity costs is a major factor many miss
glad to have ya man!
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July 17th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Dude, I seriously gotta post a driving video, because I’m starting to feel left behind. Problem is, I never go anywhere except Tim Horton’s or Starbucks, so it’s gonna have to be a video of me ordering coffee at the drive thru. lol
Some of the best moves I’ve made was giving the axe to project ideas man. One of the best qualities I’ve developed is not to become emotionally attached to them. It also helps that I’m a website flipper. You need to learn to be able to let go at any given moment. lol
Cheers man.
Drive safe! lol
Jay
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 17th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
“black wit cream please” lol
yeah man, I was just feeling it I guess, it’s all good dude.
And you’re right, letting of projects is something you gotta learn to move forward, I have a few more getting the axe, so I can focus on my winners.
Joeville is here to stay tho!…..for now
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July 17th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I feel you, Joe. Got to let it go and move on. Over the last year I have let go of a magazine that I started January 2006 and an appraisal business that I started in May 2002, the appraisal business just last month.
And I feel these are two of the best moves I have made. Although it is still fresh and the opportunity is just starting to flourish, I just feel better. I am happier and have more opportunity and control.
Don’t be afraid of the AXE people!!!
I’m with Joe!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 19th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
yeah son! you are on a roll too! keep it up man! we try, we fail, and we try again. It’s all worth it win we find those winners!
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July 17th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Not sure where you was riding to, but damn if it didn’t look like a nice day, unlike today here. Nice day… W/ Clouds!
But really I could relate to everything you said. When it comes to internet marketing, you’ve got to be flexible since there is (in my opinion) more marketing strategies then a traditional marketer which means a lot more for the average internet marketer.
Either way, glad to see Joeville live again
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 19th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
hahaha, I was on my way home man…it was a nice day on Friday…didn’t want to go in to work lol.
glad that you’re glad that we are alive and kickin! how you doing over in hustlerworld?
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July 18th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
yeah, it is pretty discouraging when there are a lot of twitter hits overnight, but they don’t do much more than hit the follow button! etc
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 19th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Hahaha…just keep giving out the good info and building that relationship, they will find your money pages eventually, sometimes on their own! lol.
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July 19th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
how to do to rise twitter followers ? because if you don’t have a lot of followers, twwetig will be useless !
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 19th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
simply find people via twitter search that are interested in the same things as you. You start following them or giving them @replies and interacting with them, eventually folks will start following you and you will find more people to follow.
the key to twitter, in my opinion, when using it for biz, is to find people interested in the same things you are.
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July 21st, 2009 at 2:09 am
I remember a time when I thought that the most interesting content on a site should be enough to gain popularity
That was long time ago, and now what can I say… Web marketing is the most important thing – no matter what are You talking about on Your website. I think this is kinda sad that the marketing is more important than content. I think You could agree with me on that one Joe. You can make site about something or about anything or about nothing serious. And if You use some nice SEO tips and tricks Your site will be veeery popular.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 21st, 2009 at 7:22 am
Yeah content is only part of it, if you have good content but no one is seeing it, then it doesn’t really matter lol.
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