Jim Connolly, Author at Jim's Marketing Blog

A new year or the same old year over again?

For most businesses, the first week in January is not the start of a New Year – It’s simply the chance to live the same old year over and over and over again! They carry on investing their time and money in all the wrong places and thus, they get the same kind of results. … Continue Reading

January 5, 2009

Marketing in a recession

Posted by Jim Connolly 35 Comments

Last month, I interviewed some business owners, who not only survived the last recession but actually grew their businesses; whilst those around them saw their businesses shrink or go broke. I wanted to know what their secret was, so I could share it with you! It became apparent very quickly that there was a single,… Continue Reading

January 2, 2009

Movement or progress?

Posted by Jim Connolly 22 Comments

As we move into a brand new year, I would like to share one of the simplest, yet most valuable pieces of advice I know with you. Don’t mistake movement for progress! Progress is not the result of hard work. If hard work were the secret to success, our grandparents would have been millionaires!Progress only… Continue Reading

January 1, 2009

Blog marketing tip

Posted by Jim Connolly 12 Comments

If you want to achieve great results with your online marketing, I believe you need to become a really good observer. This means developing the ability to see what other people miss; to observe what someone is doing in order to get a result. For example, I received an email recently from someone who made… Continue Reading

December 31, 2008

Your marketing map!

Posted by Jim Connolly 26 Comments

In this post, I am going to show you a very simple way to make your marketing massively more powerful. Most small business owners / entrepreneurs have only a vague idea of what they want from their business. They tend to be highly-motivated and launch themselves like a rocket into their work. However, with a… Continue Reading

December 30, 2008

Twitter photo shock from PhotoShop

Posted by Jim Connolly 144 Comments

We have all heard those stories, where someone has used PhotoShop to make themselves look younger, more handsome or thinner – right? Well, what I am about to share with you here is what I call photo-shock! It’s the shock someone experiences when they meet someone for the first time, who they have previously only… Continue Reading

December 28, 2008

Unsexy blog posts can be valuable too!

Posted by Jim Connolly 33 Comments

A blogger recently told me how his analytics software was unavailable for several days. He went on to say how much more he enjoyed blogging and social networking his business during that period; without the pressure of checking ‘the numbers’ after everything he did. Freedom to blog and connect He kept saying how he enjoyed… Continue Reading

December 20, 2008

Link love, Google and spammers

Posted by Jim Connolly 127 Comments

The results are in and I can now let you know what’s happened since I started this exciting marketing experiment! As many of you already know, jimsmarketingblog.com offers everyone who comments here a special reward; something called a do-follow link. This is great for my readers, as it means when you comment here, your link… Continue Reading

December 19, 2008

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