Posts about Internet Marketing Experts as of December 18, 2008
December 18, 2008 | John Lessnau | Comments 0
12/18/2008
“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.” – Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon) … what comes up or what is recommended to me. Not anymore. Thank you Seth Godin and Josh Kaufman. Synopsis
12/18/2008
Seth Godin reports on an interesting phenomenon where small bits of information that may have previously gotten lost in the shuffle are now being … . 2. Be prepared for everything to be widely reported. Seth Godin: “When you notice it, it’s news” © Dan … not actually be true or valid in the way that they are reported. Godin says: As word
12/18/2008
[ Angry Couple]There are more and more blogs created each day … bloggers. Take a look at Darren Rowse from Problogger. He just recently started a new blog called TwiTip
12/18/2008
[ utterli-image] Some commonly asked questions and our Responses about why we do what we do. As an already successful Real Estate Business Blogger, why create REO Engine? (http://reoengine.com/) You and Kristen have been the catalyst for my belief in consistent and “on-topic” blogging
12/18/2008
The other day I saw an interesting YouTube video created by John Chow. It was a quick demonstration of aweber’s recent Twitter integration … instructions on how to use it. At the end, John included his affiliate link (and yes, I did click on it ). See John’s video: The video quality is not real good. If John had Josh Anderson’
12/18/2008
The New Media Gift Buying Guide December 18, 2008 10:37 AM Posted by Mitch Joel The Holiday Season can be one of the most annoying times of year for those who need to purchase gifts for people like me. What do you get the modern business person who by night checks out gadget and tech blogs like Engadget and Boing Boing,
12/18/2008
Three successful guys sitting around on American Express’s dime talking about a bunch of web 2.0 type topics as they relate to brands, marketing etc. Seth Godin, Jimmy Wales and Sean Parker shooting the breeze. Lots of video clips. Enjoy. Use THIS LINK.http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://feeds.feedburner.com/ thebasement/ofMh http
12/18/2008
Major news sites that rely on advertising as their primary revenue stream need to log hundreds of millions of page views per month to attract significant attention from advertisers, according to a new report from Lauren Rich Fine, research director of ContentNext. From Advertising Age: “Based on our research, the conversation [
12/18/2008
The ability to talk with a network of bloggers — and maybe even some high profile ones — is an incredible boon for any blogger. Dialogues with other bloggers can result in good advice, answered questions, links, opportunities and some very interesting conversations
12/18/2008
Reading through proposals, RFPs and other documents got me thinking lately about writing ... , people like Seth Godin and Steve Johnson are there to remind us. We also have tools in Word
12/18/2008
I’ve know about Hubspot for a while, and have been an admirer of their own marketing strategy, generating 5000 leads a month is fairly impressive! ... all, but particularly Seth Godin, Lee Carbone and now Dharmesh Shah - superheroes. If anyone has any more, I’
12/18/2008
4 free books that you should read…….. 1 // Getting Real by 37signals (free here) 2 // Tribes by Seth Godin (free here) 3 // New Rules for the New Economy by Kevin Kelley (free here
12/18/2008
Spear Talks: Seth Godin Nice interview with Seth Godin with some fine quotes (tags: marketing blogging socialmedia interview branding sethgodin via: mento.info ) The link
12/18/2008
2009 is around the corner and looking forward there are some really interesting developments on the horizon. But this post is not going to deal with tech. Today the focus is on you. As Seth Godin points out in Tribes, social media like Twitter and Facebook are merely communication tools, the means
12/18/2008
I am sure there should be some (Pascal? 
). Maybe the following info will seem interesting for you - John Chow is going to give away a copy of John Reese’s “Traffic secrets 2.0?. The latter is currently sold by Income.com for 397 USD. As for me, I once saw John Reese’s seminar on conversion (probably, a part of the first “Traffic
). Maybe the following info will seem interesting for you - John Chow is going to give away a copy of John Reese’s “Traffic secrets 2.0?. The latter is currently sold by Income.com for 397 USD. As for me, I once saw John Reese’s seminar on conversion (probably, a part of the first “Traffic12/18/2008
Seth Godin on performance: The sad lie of mediocrity Doing 4% less does not get you 4% less. Doing 4% less may very well get you 95% less ... -of-10-percent-extra. At work as well as at home. I’ll start by coloring Seth’s words orange
12/18/2008
Andy Beal has posted a great list of 21 WordPress plugins that he uses and recommends. Check it out at 21 Awesome WordPress Plugins That I Selfishly Kept to Myself Until Today. There are a few
12/18/2008
The audience for this blog, can benefit from Copywriting Commandment #10: Keep your copy clean and concise ... to do this is hard, Seth Godin gave in example in his blog “The power of smart copywriting:”
12/18/2008
In the past, I’d get pissed off at people trying to knock a chip off my shoulder. These days, all I can do is laugh and try to write a blog post while sounding out each word like Andrew Dice Clay. From the drowning well of misfortunate consultants: Instead of gloating,
12/18/2008
Despite a very kind email from the author, Rich Millington, I’ve been a bit remiss in not posting about his Online Community Building Manifesto ( ... s something that has been implemented in Seth Godin’s private Triiibes group (somewhere I need
12/18/2008
We all know the elevator test. We need able to explain what we're about in 60 seconds ... to inspire and mobilize people. It's clear, and no one will forget it. Seth Godin puts this REALLY
12/18/2008
I agree with Godin that traditional advertising doesn’t and won’t work in Facebook or Twitter. Operative word: traditional ... the conversation. Here are some exmples. (Disclosure of sorts: Seth Godin is not officially affiliated with FM, unless you count our informal Seth Godin Fan Club. He is, however, a sometime contributor
12/18/2008
[ Detroit Free Press drops the bomb] Splashed across the front page of “my” newspaper — the 177-year-old Detroit Free Press — is news I hoped to never read: “Free Press unveils historic changes.” The vast network of daily home-delivered newspapers that helped to define southeast Michigan as a community will end soon. In its place?
12/18/2008
[ RSS GIFT]If you’re reading a blog you like, why not consider getting them a gift? … . Then choose which reader works best for you. Darren Rowse has a great explanation of RSS on his blog
12/18/2008
No more prize that’s “value” at $6000. It is pure $6000 cash! A huge contest prize from John Chow and XR.com … at http://www.johnchow.com/6000-contest-from-john-chow-and-xrcom or http://xr.com/6k-contest Once
12/18/2008
A fellow member of the LinkedIn Social Media Marketing group posed a great question which he in turn took from Tom Raftery’s blog. Tom’s question was: “Looking back at Social Media, we have had a significant advance (a ‘this year’s big thing’) every year since 2004
12/18/2008
While I was in San Francisco last week I had the opportunity to visit two very well known raw/live food restaurants. Restaurant 1 has fantastic food. Not just good food, but great food. Very gourmet and lot of attention to detail, especially when it came to their desserts. Restaurant 2 had good food overall, and a few winners
12/18/2008
“Buy My Product!” I saw an infomercial featuring a gray haired gentleman hawking a software tutorial system to TV viewers … (more efficient) way? 1078436_word_idea_on_the_dices Seth Calls it ‘Permission Marketing’ Marketing Maven Seth Godin invented a term called ‘Permission Marketing’ to describe the process
12/18/2008
TechCrunch today has declared an end to embargoes, other than for exclusives and trusted companies. The underlying reason is that the embargo system is so often abused or ignored as to be pointless. Thus, TC says it’s time for a new site policy: We’ve never broken an embargo at TechCrunch. Not once. Today that ends
12/18/2008
[ hidi_hsieh] “Twitter Made Dell $1 Million Dollars!” “Facebook is the #1 Social Media Website!” Seth Godin wrote a thoughtful article today regarding corporate use of social media. His point: Why do corporations try to speak the language of ‘us, us, us’ when all Facebook and Twitter
12/18/2008
The book I’m currently reading, and thoroughly enjoying, is Felix Dennis’ How to Get Rich … jobs. They want to be the next Donald Trump, or Bill Gates, John Chow or Darren Rowse. They mimic
12/18/2008
Twitter Marketing While Seth Godin writes about brands, meatballs and social media (?) … you? Not with the usual. “John W. Furst is following you on Twitter now” email. Does it make sense? Leave a comment below. Are you ready to follow me? http://twitter.com/johnfurst (?) Yours John
12/18/2008
Since I missed last week’s Dot Com Pho, I decided to donate my bowl of Pho to the Union Gospel Mission instead … and vegetarians throw up a little inside their mouths. Since John Chow can no longer eat anything
12/18/2008
There has been a lot of discussions about the Motrin story ( 116 out of our top 800+ Social Marketers blogged about it, including 7 out of our top 20) I read them – not only the top influencers – … and I ‘m providing below the links to “influencer’s” posts along with a few notes. Jaffe Juice http://www.jaffejuice
12/17/2008
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