Here’s a quick marketing tip, which has helped thousands of people to massively improve their sales results. One of the most common marketing problems businesses have, is reaching the right people at the right time. You need to get YOUR message in front of people, at the exact point where they are extremely interested in…
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Why I’m leaving Twitter!
It’s sad, but the time has come for me to leave Twitter. At the time of writing this, the three most followed people in England are; John Cleese, Stephen Fry and then me. I have made some great connections because of Twitter and met a lot of interesting people too. Twitter has been a great…
Is your marketing exposed?
One of the secrets behind the most successfully marketed small and medium sized businesses, is that they utilise more forms of marketing than their less successful counterparts! In my experience, ‘the average’ business will use just two or three different kinds of marketing – yet the most successful businesses will be benefiting from eight or…
A residual income & stacks of kudos
When I wrote and published my Motivation Master Class audio series, I did so because I knew the product would be a success. It has generated a very nice residual income for me over the past 3 years and helped thousands of people, spanning 4 continents, to achieve some great results. Once the audio series…
Twitter follower problem
Until earlier this morning, my twitter account had been ‘broken’ for the past 5 days! This meant I was unable to follow anyone back; which for someone like me, with a reputation for developing communities, is a HUGE problem! Twitter didn’t seem interested though; despite me currently being one of the top 60 most followed…
The Twitter follower mystery
Mike Butcher – The UK & Ireland Editor for Techcrunch, sent me a couple of tweets today and also an email. By the time Mike emailed me, he thought I had to be using a robot or something, to have developed such a great twitter network so quickly! We spoke and by the end of…
Record breaking results
With the media focusing constantly on negative business news, it’s refreshing to see some good news stories coming out; (yes, there are still a lot of businesses doing really well!) Apple announce record breaking revenue & profits This article, from my tech news blog, gives some background to yesterday’s announcement by Apple; that their figures…
Time for marketing
QUESTION: What does great marketing have in common with great comedy? ANSWER: Timing! Marketing & timing I received an email earlier, announcing the launch, today, of a new website. If you check the date of this post (20th January 2009) you will see that it’s the day that President Obama was inaugurated. This international, mass…
4 ways to grow a business
With so many buzz words and marketing ideas flying around, it’s easy to forget the basics. That’s why I wanted to share something with you today, which really helps us focus on what’s important. 4 ways to grow a business As Jay Abraham said so concisely, many years ago; there are only 4 ways to…
Blog comments
I have always been a keen reader of blogs, not only because of the actual blog posts – but because of the gold dust you can find in a blog’s comments section. For example, no matter how knowledgeable a blogger is on his or her subject, there will usually be people reading a post, who…
Recession thinking
Judging by my inbox and the comments on this blog, it seems that the current recession is having a very different impact on different people. That’s to be expected, yet I’m seeing businesses of similar sizes, in the same industries and the same region having totally different experiences. Recession marketing I wrote a while ago,…
