June 24, 2008

AP battles Blogs

By Helen A.S. Popkin | MSNBCAP tries to control blogs, fails. ... AP requested that the Drudge Retort remove seven posts featuring quotes from AP stories. It blew up into yet another full-on Internet conflict between Big Business and the Little Guys. ...AP is bowing to the will of the angry Internet masses and backing off. Sort of. ..
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June 08, 2008

Seth Godin on What Every Good Marketer Should Know

Marketing without Annoying Advertising - as I mentioned in the post below.
There is still this issue with new marketers being over-eager to learn and practise the newest advertising techniques and -widgets. - And before they have learned to stop all this black hat Social Network/Media Optimization I am currently having an issue with, it will probably be too late...
Social Marketing is just starting - when will the death of social marketing be proclaimed? - because the Spammers, as always, were quicker, and the social media are already over-alert, on the way to condemn and ban by short every blogger or writer for daring to submit her/his own his own article anywhere? Sometimes I almost feel incriminated as an online marketer, and specially in Germany this is very strong.
What would the final result be? Web 2.0 filled with superficial soap opera - and stuffed with hollow commercials. Shouting BUY!! will be everywhere, and information about what exactly and why strictly forbidden.
But as Seth Godin's footnote says...
Ok, readers are given permission to reprint, so here goes:
What do you know?
What Every Good Marketer Knows:
  • Anticipated, personal and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
  • Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

June 03, 2008

The Gary Halbert Letter and the 30 Day Challenge

The Gary Halbert Letter
( http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/ )

The amazing Newsletters by the late Gary Halbert....
It's worth more than most of the costly eBooks together.


I'm just looking at the Thirty Day Challenge TV, Ed Dale talking about the Golden Nugget Theory. ...

Now this video is 2 months old already. But there are still two more Months to go before the hot phase begins.

The Thirty Day Challenge is open now ! Pre -Season. High time to find out what it is now - and this superb online boot camp really costs nothing.

(High time for me to get my business settled so I can take part in it at least a bit... .)