Aug
31
2009

Protecting Your Domain Name Ideas

protectFlyheatherflyYou  have this great idea for a site and you start researching possible domain names.  When you go to buy one a few days later, you find that it’s already been purchased.  You find this strange because you’ve only told a few people about the name.  Now you have to either try to buy the domain name back or think of a new one.  Very frustrating.  If this has happened to you or you’re thinking about purchasing a domain name in the future, you should take steps to protect your ideas.

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Aug
31
2009

Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – August 31, 2009

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Aug
28
2009

Helping Your Customers Through Consultative Selling

insightslogoPosting over at Insights Group today:

It used to be that salespeople would try to convince or persuade customers that they needed your product.  Often the product wasn’t a very good fit, so customers would be unhappy.  Back before the Internet this wasn’t a huge problem because customers only had limited access to other potential customers (only those people they knew in person).  With the widespread use of the Internet and online social networks, disgruntled customers can have a huge impact on potential sales.- Helping Your Customers Through Consultative Selling – Sarah Worsham – Insights Group

Always having the best interest of your customers in mind is best for the long term success of your business.  I hope you’ll join me over at Insights for the rest of the post.

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Aug
28
2009

Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – August 28, 2009

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Aug
27
2009

Starring in… Social Media Unplugged

Linkedin, Facebook, Blogger, You Tube and Twitter Plan a Takeover of Plasmos in Social Media Unplugged.

The video shows a social media platoon under the direction of a Fidel Castro type leader planning a takeover of an island using all of the social networking capabilities. The main characater, “El Capitan” attempts to get his group to communicate a common message in a uniform way from all of the diverse media

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Aug
27
2009

Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – August 27, 2009

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Aug
26
2009

Navigation Isn’t a Feature of Your Website, It IS Your Website

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Discussions about navigation on a website usually revolve around where to put them and what items should be in them.  But without navigation on a website, there is no website, just the one page where a visitor entered your site.

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Aug
26
2009

Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – August 26, 2009

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Aug
25
2009

Learn the Lingo – Domain names

conversationHave you noticed that Industry insiders like to invent their own language?  You are following along in a fascinating conversation about some interesting aspect of something and just when it is all coming together and you can sense a real strong point being made, the speaker looses you completely on some strange term or phrase or, god forbid, acronym that they just assume everyone must grok*.

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Aug
25
2009

Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links – August 25, 2009

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