Marketing Strategies – April 9th, 2009
Welcome to the April 9, 2009 edition of marketing strategies.
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Social Media
Jordan presents Use Twitter To Make Money For Yourself/Business posted at Jordan’s Internet Marketing Guide, saying, “Thanks!”
SEO Tips
Lee McCoy presents Keyword Density Tips posted at The Secret Affiliate Society, saying, “I will run through the most common questions as best I can, but please keep in mind that Keyword Density is not an exact science, or at least the formula has not been cracked yet. The information I will provide is based on my own experiences, success and failures.”
Email Marketing
Debbie Ducker presents Create Powerful Viral E-Mail by Using Humor posted at Ducker Promotion Ezine, saying, “include humor in your e-mail ad campaigns”
Blogging
Nicholas Powiull presents Conscious Flex: How to Live Your Passion (How I Became a Fulltime Blogger) posted at Conscious Flex, saying, “Many people have emailed me about my new opportunity in becoming a fulltime blogger. It seems everyone is wanting a logical way of how I became a fulltime blogger and how they can produce the same results.”
Internet Marketing
Kathleen Gaga presents Top Internet Marketers Share How to Build a Six and Seven Figure Businesses posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, “Recently I had the opportunity to share time with some of the most amazing people in the world of Internet Marketing. Although some I have known for quite some time, there is nothing to compare to meeting face to face.
Throughout the three day event we shared insights that had many similarities. Here are just a few tips we shared….”
offline marketing
CA presents 25 must have items on your marketing checklist : Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog – IQI Strategic Management Inc. posted at Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog.
JL Scott presents Balancing your personal and your business goals posted at Strategies for Making Money Online and Your Home Business | JL Scott Revolution.
Anja Merret presents You have to be bigger than your product posted at marketing fundi, saying, “In a recession you have to offer a bigger product, more value for money. The consumer is a lot more cautious to spend that money. The value must be high.”
online techniques
David R Young Jr presents Niche Marketing Resources posted at Niche Marketing Resources, saying, “unique uses for autoresponders”
Susan Tatum presents The Three Easiest Marketing Decisions posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.
Tbarr presents Glossary Of The Most Commonly Used Internet Marketing Terms posted at Online-Biz-Now, saying, “This post is perfect for anyone who is new to online marketing. A glossary of the most commonly used internet marketing terms.”
Tushar presents A List of 100 Top RSS Directories posted at TUSHARVICKKIE, saying, “Popularize your business by submitting RSS Feeds in the Top RSS Feeds Directories.”
social media marketing
Anna Farmery presents Brands and the social media conversation posted at The Engaging Brand.
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We made it!!
We are all in once piece after the big move, but I can’t say that for a couple of photo frames, some glasses and some things that have gone missing…
The move was as stressful as you can expect, although a big thanks goes to my friend D, for taking the kids off our hands for quite a while, and also to my sis in law who drove the massive truck down for us! She was the only one with a truck license and it was quite funny to see her tiny frame behind the massive wheel.
I have no internet access at the moment out at the farm where we are staying, so I have to come to mums house to hook me up. Hopefully I will fix that shortly after the new year so please bear with me if you’ve sent me an email and it’s taken a while to respond.
The kids are loving it here and H can’t wait to start school on 30th Jan.
Keep an eye out in the new year for some new training courses and marketing products to help propel you all into a properous 2009!!
Have a very merry xmas and fantastic new year and wishing you all fun with your families and friends!
Em.
Live Life to the Fullest
I received an email from someone today with some funny anecdotes about living life, rather than step-toeing around and at the bottom of it was this quote that I find sums me up to a tee:
“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways – Chardonnay in one hand – chocolate in the other – body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO, What a Ride”
What about you? What are your thoughts on this??
Having ‘Faith’
You know, I used to listen to people who talked about having faith in everything they did, and my mind always thought about religious terms. Like, god, and Jesus and all of that as ‘having faith’.
I realise it’s not.
Well, it can be, if that’s what you believe in. But what I’m talking about it actually having faith in your beliefs. Having faith in whatever you believe in, and being honest with yourself about it.
I was always quite skeptical of ‘the secret’ when it came out. But I jumped on the bandwagon and got the movie, read the books, downloaded the audios etc, but nothing ever happened. And I realise now, that it’s because I didn’t really believe in what I was telling myself.
I have two stories I want to share with you all. One is about my father – who passed away in May this year. Well it’s a tale of the universe actually, but it concerns him…
For as long as I have been able to drive, or to even be able to look at cars in a admirable way, I’ve wanted a Suzuki Vitara. From the tiny little two door soft tops, right the way through, every time they bring out a new one, I renew my interest in the cars. And I’ve always said to myself, that I was going to have one. I never really thought about how that would happen, but I knew in my heart that I would have one (meaning that I was going to buy one. With what money I had no idea, but I was going to buy one). Anyway, my father recently got sick with an asbestos related illness and was sick for a year before he passed away. During that year, his solicitor put him into the class action suit against Hardies etc. He never saw any of his money, but both him and Mum decided to give me some to buy my new car - A Suzuki Grand Vitara.
Now, this car will never replace my father, but it’s an example of the universe at work. So be very careful about what you dream about, and what you ask for, because it can not always come to you in a good way.
The second story has to do with having faith. I believe Dad is around me all the time and truly looking out for me. Because I believe this, I have no problems in taking that step to get me out of my comfort zone and having faith in the decisions I make. An example of this is moving house. After Dad passed away, we decided to pack up and go back home to the rest of our family, and give our kids the support and love of relatives and family. We had no idea how to get work(it’s a regional centre, so not a lot of work), no idea where we would live, schools for the kids etc. But, we made the decision to go, and low and behold, everything has turned out for the best.
Im amongst this, I decided to set a date for moving house. We still hadn’t sold our house, we didn’t have a place to go to, but I took that risk, believed in my faith, and made it on the 15th Dec 2008. As of last week, we sold our house and have been able to move in with some family.
So, the motto here is to take that step – believe in yourself, your abilities, whatever it is. But trust yourself. Do it.
Don’t keep saying “when I” because nothing will ever happen. Make the decision first, and then everything will fall into place.
Do you have a similiar story to share?
Global Recession..Whatever..
You know all this talk about the global recession is really starting to irritate me.
Why?
Because it will only effect you if you let it! It’s not bothering me in the slightest. There are so many people out there trying to cash in on all the hype with books, magazines, new software and products designed for your business to ‘beat the recession’.
What nonsense.
New research has shown that people are willing to spend the same if not more on christmas this year. I was out at the shops yesterday and the people who were buying big was amazing. Everywhere you looked, people were buying so many luxury items and there was not a hint of a big bad global recession anywhere.
Just a load of bulldust…
Has it effected you at all?
Finally – A new Website for Diva Promotions!!
Well, it’s been a long time coming, but Diva Promotions finally has a new, functional website.
It originally started with a joomla template, but that didn’t quite work out the way it was supposed to. With my web programmer on a well deserved month’s holiday, it was up to me and my resources to see how to fix it.
What surprised me the most was that no-one wanted to take my money and fix it! They just didn’t want to touch joomla. Some people tried to give me free advice, but the site was way too far gone for that.
I ended up getting a ‘joomla expert’ in the UK to fix one problem, which of course then caused other problems to arise!!
I gave up a week trying to fix it, and then threw my hands in the air and put my site onto Wordpress. Take a look – http://www.divapromotions.com.au and let me know what you think.
Hats off to Ally from Web Graphics By Email who created the concept design for me. She worked with me tirelessly changing bits and pieces here and there and not complaining at all! http://www.webgraphicsbyemail.com.au Thanks Ally!!!
Please put some comments below about the site, and if there is any fuction that doesn’t quite seem to be working, or if you notice anything out of the ordinary- please tell me!!! 
@JohannaBD bugger that – remem…
@JohannaBD bugger that – remember those times well. have a great sleep!
@JohannaBD you not well Joh?
@JohannaBD you not well Joh?
@johnreese definitely emails. …
@johnreese definitely emails. have to turn the thing off!
turning off your computer earl…
turning off your computer early to take some time out does not work – you need to turn it back on in the morning to everything that came in.
