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Re: Persistent Marketing Pays Off: It’s Where the Magic Happens

Max — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:38:43 -0000

Perseverance and focusing on the goal are truly powerful virtues in the realm of sales and marketing, I have been reading a book called 27 Powers of Persuasion by Chris St. Hilaire which discusses the similar idea of focusing on the goal. Chris writes, “Whenever you’re trying to persuade, your first mission is to define the goal. The most effective way to do this is not to announce the goal to the group, but to help everyone decide on it together. You want to have the largest possible buy-in from everyone involved, and you get it by having everyone contribute to the goal in the beginning.”

Re: Persistent Marketing Pays Off: It’s Where the Magic Happens

Max — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:37:17 -0000

Perseverance and focus on the goal are truly powerful virtues in the realm sales and marketing, I have been reading a book called 27 Powers of Persuasion by Chris St. Hilaire which discusses the similar idea of focusing on the goal. Chris writes, “Whenever you’re trying to persuade, your first mission is to define the goal. The most effective way to do this is not to announce the goal to the group, but to help everyone decide on it together. You want to have the largest possible buy-in from everyone involved, and you get it by having everyone contribute to the goal in the beginning.”

Re: Develop your Personal Brand by Optimizing Yourself

Andy Fogarty — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:59:06 -0000

This is something that I had trouble with in the beginning. I knew what I really wanted to talk about and help folks with, but I thought "there's a million other people doing the same thing". It wasn't until I realized that, yes there are a lot of people who help others with the same problems, but there's only one person that does it like I do. That's me!

Sure, I magnify certain parts of my personality online, but people are still getting 100% genuine Andy and their getting the help they need.

Re: How to Create the Brand of YOU: What’s Your Why?

Kleber Oliveira — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:53:15 -0000

After reading this post, I thought about the paradox of being different and being "one of us". You got to differentiate to give your message a meaning. And build the path to translate that meaning in an appropriate way to your targets. A tough task and a driving goal.
Thanks for sharing!

Re: How to Make Money Marketing Affiliate Programs

Pablo Edwards — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:31:35 -0000

Thanks for your recommendations. It can be very overwhelming to think about the money making side. I'm glad you have a handle on it and are willing to share it with us. We all want to make money, but until you have a plan, it seems next to impossible!

Re: How Leaving Blog Comments Can Accelerate Your Alexa Ranking

John Engle — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:47:16 -0000

Hey Wendy,

I completely agree... people like to know if they have in someway touched a persons life, or in this case marketing business, so it is a good idea to leave comments when a person writes helpful content. Very similar to what the Bible states... giving will receive back 10-fold.

Thank you for the helpful information!

John Engle

Bravo, Thanks for sharing!

John Engle

Re: How to Develop Your Blog Brand and Persona

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Re: How to Add a Blog to Your Facebook Fan Page

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Re: Persistent Marketing Pays Off: It’s Where the Magic Happens

Pablo Edwards — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:48:42 -0000

I think that we are all looking for the quick fix, thanks for the reminder and encouragement to stay the course.

Re: How to Make Money Marketing Affiliate Programs

Chris Bernardo — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:01:05 -0000

Wendy,

Thanks for sharing this on Affiliate Marketing and making money, I know that for those that take advantage of using this as a stream of income, it is great way to build value to anyone that follows you by offering products, i generally when becoming an affiliate will only promote things that i personally use so for me some of my profits are used to buy and use products that i recommend.

Re: How to Create the Brand of YOU: What’s Your Why?

Phil — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:14:44 -0000

Thats true that you need to ask this question "who you are and what your mission is" and set the real goals and successful will come with right approach towards that

Re: How to Add a Blog to Your Facebook Fan Page

Phil — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:10:36 -0000

FB pages are mostly used in these days, not only due to direct traffic but they are well indexed by google as well

Re: How to Develop Your Blog Brand and Persona

Phil — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:05:23 -0000

Blogging is very good profession as i have seen which opens many doors of chances for you to grows and its personal experience that how i started writing on Search Marketing and opened the business

Re: Make Money in Your Online Business via Proper Sequencing

Phil — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:03:38 -0000

Some people have talent and they just need proper guidance, i have seen that in SEO market niche and its good post

Re: Persistent Marketing Pays Off: It’s Where the Magic Happens

Phil — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:02:18 -0000

Thats true....internet marketing is like that building small success and from these small blocks towards to main success at some point of time with continue hard work

Re: Are You Scared to Charge for Your Expertise?

Phil — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:54:55 -0000

I am not but i think if you are expert in your niche you should, my area is SEO related to search market and i do the same, i charge for SEO services and its your right

Re: How to Make Money Marketing Affiliate Programs

Phil — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:51:15 -0000

I think lunch the products with positive attitude and you will see the success

Re: How to Make Money Marketing Affiliate Programs

Rebecca Johnson — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:13:11 -0000

Wendy,
Thanks for lots of great ideas. I have been thinking about several products but haven't taken any action. This information gave me the nudge I needed to get on it.

Re: Your People Believe What You Believe. They Buy Your WHY.

Krisna — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:28:02 -0000

This is right on! Thanks for getting to the point with the first few words (rare it seems these days). We must always remember: If my WHY doesn't make me cry, it's not big enough! I will be sharing this blog as much as I can! Thanks again Wendy!

Re: How to Make Money Marketing Affiliate Programs

James Hampton — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:03:15 -0000

Hey Wendy, thanks for the affiliate marketing review. I agree with you in that I see nothing wrong with a blogger monetizing their blog using affiliate products. Also you addressed the FTC disclosure issue which I think more marketers need to hear.

Thanks for sharing this valuable information.

-James

Re: How to Make Money Marketing Affiliate Programs

Linnea — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:19:37 -0000

Hi Wendy,

A good thorough review of affiliate marketing. My largest frustration in finding products is in the potential upfront cost... I feel strongly about only recommending that I've tried and feel comfortable recommending therefore, if it is a new find, I may have to buy it first to try it out :) Good to see another follower of Dave Navarro!

Re: How to Create Compelling Content for Your Blogs and Videos

Michelle Quillin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:33:02 -0000

Awesome content here, Wendy! I actually bookmarked this last week for review this morning, and I'm so glad I did.

I went for a 45-minute walk with a friend this morning. It was the first day of a commitment we made to walk together every morning, and as hard as it is to pull myself away from my desk once I'm firmly planted, I did it anyway, mostly for her. After reading your post here, I thought back on the walk and found three great ideas waiting there! I would never have thought to do that! Now I won't see the walks as taking me away from work, so thank-you!

I also love the idea of turning answered questions for clients into posts. We're building a private support forum for our Wordpress and "other platform" website clients -- set for launch this week -- and that's where I've been putting those "answered questions." But of COURSE they'll be perfect for blog posts as well! Maybe I can actually get an editorial calendar together now.

Thank-you so much for the inspiration! You rock, Wendy Maynard!

Michelle Quillin for New England Multimedia
http://twitter.com/NEMultim...

Re: Persistent Marketing Pays Off: It’s Where the Magic Happens

Tommy Walker — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:57:49 -0000

Every day we build on what we did the day before. It is so easy to lose sight of that... Persistent marketing can be hard, but it doesn't take a lot to de-construct everything by just one day giving up...

I think this is why there is so much focus on content calenders, tweet scheduling, and everything else because it's all about building little blocks... Really you don't know who's listening.

Re: How to Create Compelling Content for Your Blogs and Videos

Marlene Hielema — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:26:27 -0000

Great post Wendy! I am currently surveying my list of subscribers after sending them 10 free photo lessons. By accident I found out that very few of them were using Twitter. So I turned that into a post about why I use Twitter. It's a great post (at least I think so), and will also do as a follow up for the folks that completed my survey, and to get others to do the survey because - you guess it - that's going to be their next newsletter!

I hope that makes sense as I haven't had my usual quota of coffee yet today ;)

Re: Persistent Marketing Pays Off: It’s Where the Magic Happens

kimberlywagner — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:06:51 -0000

Each day we build a little on what what we have created, and it keeps growing. We're looking close up at all the small tasks because they are right in front of us needing to be done. Until we back up and look at the whole picture, we don't realize how much we've really built.