Marketing Monday: Just Ask For It

I’ve been running another blog with some friends on mine for about two months now.  We started it on a whim, and didn’t really get into publishing consistently until about a month ago. Here’s where we stand now.  After two months of being up and running, we’re already getting ranked pretty well (1st page on specifics, 3rd-5th page for generals) for some of our...

Tech Tip Tuesday: Make A Backup

I work in the hosting industry for my day job.  It’s interesting and educating (and many times humbling) work.  Other than the day job, I build websites, run a few (3) blogs, keep a few (5) Twitter streams, do the whole Facebook thing, the Flickr thing, and teach others about using the social web to market their businesses and websites. One of the things that has amazed me in each and...

Jumping Outside The Norm

I love the idea of bringing people to your business in new and different ways.  The web has changed marketing since its inception, and still today the classical marketers are trying to catch up.  One place where more and more of these groups are working in is through inbound marketing. Now I could take a moment to brown nose and say that my favorite example of inbound marketing is HubSpot TV,...

2009 Looking Back And Looking Forward

Well, 2009 is here leaving 2008 in its dust. So I feel it appropriate to take a look back at the past year and my goals for 2008 and see how it all went. As well, I think it’s time to look forward to the new year and make some plans for the next 12 months. First a look at what I hoped to achieve in 2008: Finish College — Hey, I actually got that one done. So far so good. Build...

Marketing Class; Act 3, Scene 3

I think that says it all. Uses of Advertising To Promote Products/Organizations To Stimulate Demand Primary Selective To Offset Competition To Make the Sales Staff Effective To Increase Uses of Product To Remind and Reinforce To Reduce Sales and Fluctuations Well, we’re really jumping right into it today.  Thankfully we were able to avoid the bad jokes at the beginning of class.  Or...