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2月27日 Getting it WrongYou have to love it when the big guys mess up right? I have seen the same ads for T-mobile in Chicago, New York, LA and Las Vegas on my current tour of the US. They all say something along the lines of "lowest number of dropped calls in LA". This to me smacks of negativity; its like advertising your business and saying "we screw up less than anyone else". Would you buy from a firm that said that?
What about a firm that said "we never screw up", or " we won't drop your call"? Personally, I would find that a lot more attractive. Given the litigious nature of the US market I understand whay T-mobile is not keen to over-promise but compare their campaign to Verizon who clearly state on their ads "The most reliable network in the USA". I know who would get my money, what about you?
Think about this when you are making your own ads, whether it be through Adsense or similar online advertising, or in your Yellow Pages or local newspaper. All advertising raises awareness but make sure that you are getting out the right (positive message). If I were T-mobile I would be saying "99.9% call continuity in NY" or maybe even "more reliable than Verizon in NY" if they have the numbers to prove it! 2月20日 Getting HitchedCompletely unrelated to my website, which is unusual. I get married this Friday in Las Vegas and will be broadcasting the event live. Instructions to view the event (3pm Vegas time, 11pm London) are as follows: -
The website is www.bellagio.com, click on html then amenities, then web casting. The system will prompt you to enter the groom's name (brad emery). 2月15日 Interesting morningI finally have my affiliate link working but to be honest its ugly and a little obtrusive so will have to work on it. Equally I have adsense up and running but not the way I want. I only have 2 ads at the bottom of the page, and could not get the vertical bar to work on the right hand side. I am not too worried though as we are in the middle of a fairly thorough overhaul of the website. Check out www.thewowww.com. These guys have some great ideas, very creative.
Other positives include getting my new business cards last night, and of course the new logo, which I can't work out how to paste here. Today I received a couple of emails, one as a result of an article that I wrote on driving internet traffic, and the other through a post that I made on a small business forum. The first had an idea to start a business where I would help him, but we would both post our experience online to help others see what is involved, and what we have to go through. I like the idea and will explore it further.
The second email was from a guy who has spent the last few years building adult websites but now wants to come into the mainstream. He is trying to set up a group of internet marketers in Hong Kong to share ideas and techniques and thus help us all to see greater success. I also like this and will meet him next time I am in HK.
The truly gratifying part though is that 2 complete strangers liked what I am doing enough to mail me out of the blue and ask for my involvement in their projects. I realise this could get tired pretty quickly but right now it feels gratifying.
Oh and did I mention that my web stats seem to be rising again after a slight lull? 2 more articles submitted last night, plus some more frequent forum posting, and the affiliate program. Hopefully it is this activity driving it, and it will be sustainable!
2月12日 Importing AdviceI got this from another forum (www.youngentrepreneur.com) but it is reproduced with the permission of the author, who has two websites at http://www.cheapretail.net/ and http://www.1337electronics.com/
It is interesting to me because this guy is actually doing what I am reccomending for many of my ideas and has obviously hit a few snags.
2月2日 Free Report on why you NEED to start your own businessAccording to the experts one of the reasons that I am not getting many people sign up is because I do not have an offer for potential members. They can get all the ideas from the website and there is nothing in it for them to sign up. With this in mind I wrote a report entitled "Why you Need to start your own Business". It runs to about 3 pages and I have posted it to some article submission sites aswell to see whether it will drive more traffic.
So the question I have is why no-one signed up today? I guess that either I didnt put the offer prominantly enough on the page, ór I didn't put a time limit on it, or it simply isn't appealing to the people that viewed the page today, whcih incidentally was the best day yet for pure traffic flow.
I also managed to forget my user name for Miva the ad generating site having only signed up yesterday. Actually I think they have some work to do as the confirmation before you can use the site system meant that I just logged out yesterday and then today obviously can't remember the sign in details, and they didn't send a confirmation email with teh details in. I have written to them so hopefully they will be quick to resolve it.
Ah, I'm tired and bitching so will end this here.
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