5 People that Will Make Your Business Fail
During my travels, I have seen many start-ups for organizations. The best are those that all in the group have the same vision and have a clear path to the goal, but during a start up, often a path is unclear. When an unclear path happens, “gaps” are filled with not so great things. Here are a few types of those personalities that can rear their ugly head:
The Dreamer- It reminds me of when I was young and smoking pot with friends, and coming up with an idea. “Yeah man, and then we can…”. As you can imagine, no call to action with any of these “brilliant” ideas, and the dreamer loves to spend hours expanding on anything that gets everyone’s attention, Continue reading
Internet Radio and a New Marketing Method for Online Business
Internet radio for business and internet marketing is now a viable media to get a message out with minimal cost and grown beyond the realm of casual hobbyist. To get started with your internet station, use SHOUT cast http://shoutcast.com or ICEcast http://Icecast.org from your living room with WINAMP http://winamp.com and a SHOUTcast DSP http://shoutcast.com/download or EDCAST http://oddsock.org . The best thing is this setup is totally free. To play licensed music, there is very affordable royalty licensing available from companies like LIVE365, SWCast, or Loudcaster. You don’t want to spend money on licensed Continue reading
The Five Biggest Business Fails with Internet Advertising
Internet advertising is now part of the business world. What I mean is it works just like offline businesses in the way that it’s location, location, location, and right now the internet is where people are gathering(over 1/3 of their waking time), but many businesses see advertising on the NET and assign it with little value because it’s not tangible, and they refuse to validate it’s business potential to increase revenue.
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It’s Not About Just Being Good, It’s About the Connecting with the Client Stupid.
A lot of this business is resources, and resource management. But the thing I see too much, is many companies spend way too much time building a profile, and not the company infrastructure itself. When a prospective client comes to your company in need of work, not only are they given a short resume(is ok in the beginning), they are also supplied with little to meet their business needs except some words on how great your organization is.
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Web Marketing NOT 101! 99 Class- Don’t Let the Word Affiliate Depreciate What You Do
Too many people do this for an easy buck and don’t treat it for what it is…a business. Affiliate just means nothing these days, and if you are breathing, a human life form(questionable), and can stick your tiny little link into any page by the miracle of copy-paste, you can be an AFFILIATE MARKETER, con-grad-u-damn-lations! This is a business. A tough business. Out of 100 of you that read this, probably only one of you will have any measure of success at all.
If you are in this for the long haul, you are actually in the Promotional Business. Business with a capital B!
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