Archive for the ‘Marketing’ Category
Friday, June 15th, 2007
One of my lifelong goals is to assist in closing the digital divide. On of our companies, AboveTheLimit.com contributed (this business is closing down in a few months) to this cause by providing very low cost web sites for several years ( from free to $199 for full CMS eCommerce ...
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
If you find your business at a plateau, ask yourself the following five questions:
1. How do we increase revenue?
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Friday, June 8th, 2007
There is a new term popping up in the tech community, Wish Markets. Wish Markets are defined as a unique market channel, such as a web application like ThemBid.com, where participants have the ability to post products they wish to have regardless if they exist. The Wish Market hypothesis contends ...
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Now that we have given you the tools to make your own automated Skype calls, following are some application suggestions:
Wake Up Calls
Automated Phone Reminders
Bill Collections
Phone Grams
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
How would you reach your target market with a small budget? On top of that, how to do it when resources, time and manpower are also limited? These were the issues we had to confront when we first launched ThemBid.com in the Inland Empire. Our goal was simple; get our ...
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
When I say free, I am referring to money. I know that your time is not free, but its what most of us startups have to bargain with in the beginning. These methods are not given in the order of effectiveness, but each one has given us some success to ...
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Our team has now logged in a significant amount of cold calling hours. Following are some ideas that may help with your cold calling efforts:
Ask for the person that can make the decision. In our case, it was the person in charge of advertising.
Focus on the benefits that relate to ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
We are absorbing a great deal of information that we will be utilizing in future versions of ThemBid.com.
I would like to share with our blog readers the mind-maps I have been able to create while attending the educational workshops. As time progresses, I will add more mind-maps.
You will need to ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Since our alpha launch on March 28, 2007 we have obtained over 2,600 unique visitors with over 18,000 page views. More than 90% of this traffic is due to our blogging campaign.
The majority of the visits came from this blog post. If you browse through our blog posts you will ...
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Monday, April 9th, 2007
Over time, ThemBid.com will have collected some interesting marketing data that will be able answer questions such as:
In what location is the need for certain products and/or services high?
What locations are more likely to generate sales online?
What locations attract more bidders on certain requests?
Combine this data with web analytics showing ...
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