September 8th, 2008
I just read the most interesting rant. My ever present mentor, Seth Godin, occasionally introduces me to a new product or concept or person who captures my complete attention. So, I am reading his blog yesterday and discovered a real gem.
Peter Shankstone works in the same field as Seth and myself. He is a marketer [...]
August 12th, 2008
Seth Godin wrote a great post today about the role “luck” plays in the success of a business.
Around here we have our own definition of “luck”:
Luck is where preparedness meets opportunity.
If you have gone to the trouble to read, research, practice, rehearse, or “work” on anything. If you have put in hours of sweat and [...]
May 22nd, 2008
Everyone has their favorite tools. The use of tools is a higher function, one of the main things that indicates intelligent life. On the internet your choice of tools often makes the difference in your internet experience and that of your market.
I use several tools that make a difference for me. I [...]
April 8th, 2008
Just spent a pleasurable evening putting up my first serious Squidoo lens about the hows and whys and whatfors of keywords. I actually dreamed this lens last night and figured unless I made a start on it before I went to bed I wouldn’t be able to sleep.
So take a look. [...]
March 29th, 2008
My Saturday Cookie Cutter class is about lensing today.
Lensing is a Seth Godin product (yeah, him again) I was fortunate to be in on the original closed beta on this one and saw right away that this new project of his was headed for greatness.
A lens is a focused look at a particular topic [...]
March 28th, 2008
“Your account is past due”, “Payment has been awarded”, “Long time no see” and so forth. And what do find when you open these emails? Another ad for enlarging body parts, buying drugs that you don’t need or a scam to extort money.
When are people going to learn that tricking people [...]
March 1st, 2008
The Cookie Cutter Group is an internet marketing training course on a regularly scheduled conference call each Saturday morning at 10 am Pacific time for the last 3 years.
It is called The Cookie Cutter Group because, if you have a perfect cookie cutter you can make a perfect cookie or a dozen perfect cookies or [...]
February 28th, 2008
I put up my first web page in February of 1996. Within two weeks I got an email from a gentleman in China, followed in less than a week from a lady in Germany. I was forever changed at that time. I became a creature of the web.
Back then it was called [...]
February 27th, 2008
If your marketing is out of sync, your reception will be about the same as if you served your guests meatballs with whipped cream and a cherry on top…at least that is the premise of Seth Godin’s latest masterpeice, “Meatball Sundae”.
This books packs all of the dynamite punch we expect from Seth. And quite [...]