Weird Sells: Get Noticed on the Internet – Internet-Marketing
Weird Sells: Get Noticed on the Internet
What is weird?, well in the 21st century it's getting more and more difficult to define what is weird and what isn't . According to the dictionary one definition is "Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange". Surely that isn't enough any more? A quick look at eBay and you will find hundreds of items that would comply with that definition. Toast with faces on it, Glass jars containing Ghosts and numerous examples of weird and wacky objects, (well weird and wacky according to the people who have submitted them.) The sheer number of them should preclude them from being classed as Weird. Mainstream Newspapers now have pages of weird news and no shortage of people willing to appear on them. The nightly news no longer finishes with heart warming local story it finishes with some weird local happening Weird is big news.It seems that weird and bizarre are now mainstream and are considered marketing tools or a gateway to 15 minutes of fame. In earlier centuries the highlight of the year was the visit of a circus or a fair and their cast of weird and wonderful characters and creatures. Queues would form outside the tents as people waited to see the latest freaks and bizarre sights. The Internet is the modern equivalent of the Freak Show and with a bit of planning and preparation you can use this desire for the weird and wacky to promote your site or your company.Viral marketing is the key to your success, Find something that people will find funny and amusing and want to show their friends and you are halfway there. Some recent examples are the plumbers van that had a naked body painted on door so that it looked like a naked person was driving. The photograph traveled from inbox to inbox each time the name of the company was seen along with the URL of their site, it was picked up by local newspapers and local TV and the work flooded in (sorry for the pun!).It doesn't take a big budget just a big imagination, Find something weird, photograph it watermark the photograph and place it on your site take some anti leeching precautions to stop people copying it and send the link out, visit a few forums and place the link in your signature, pass the photo to some of the many sites specializing in weird soon you will have a stream of traffic to your site.There is no difference from the Internet to the freak shows of the 19th and 20th Centuries except that this time the freaks are on the outside of the tent!Mark Thompson ran an IT consultancy in London for many years . He now live in Spain and runs an number of websites including World of the Weird
Writing Articles Sells Books – Writing-Articles
Writing Articles Sells Books
Are you a reluctant marketer for your book? Do you avoid the social and selling aspects of self-publishing and promotion?Discover the easy and free way to promote your book. It's still the number one top way--writing and submitting articles to other ezines and Web sites.Getting Started Tips to Create your Selling Articles1. Use your non-fiction book's chapter how to's or your fiction's juicy chapter excerpts.2. Keep your articles around 200-800 words each.3. Keep your article focused on just one thesis or point.4. Create a hook for your two or three-sentence introduction. Notice this one asked you a few questions to engage you.5. Forget the old school of writing for print magazines and getting paid. Follow the Internet way-- give your article away like Mrs. Field cookie samples, so people will want to visit the site where you sell your book.6. Keep yourself out of it. Your audience wants to know what you can do for them. Replace those "I" constructions with "you."
"If you are like me...."7. Number the main points for clarity. People love easy to read tips.8. Collect ten well-edited articles before you blast off. Online readers will look at your more seriously when they see you offer more than one quick thing. They will see you as the savvy expert and click to where you sell your book.9. Leverage one article into five. Change your audience. Change your number of how to's. Three Tips to... or Five Tips... or The Two Best Ways to....10. Remember free information is the reason people go to Web sites, so put your articles there as well as in a blog.Once you get dozens of short articles or excerpts out to no spam ezines or top web sites n your field, you will notice the search engines optimizing your site because they see your important key words that link you, your book, or your service together. Your submitted articles lead to the magic of "viral marketing." The thing is that this is attraction, natural marketing at its best.Judy Cullins
How SPAM Sells Sex, Greed, and Survival – Internet-Marketing
How SPAM Sells Sex, Greed, and Survival
The unsolicited email people react to most is what yells for money through our base needs involving sex, greed and survival.Selfish SPAMMER messages are more clear to understand than all the subtle appearances of simple unsolicited email such as misdirected messages with incorrect email addresses.The top 10 abusers generate most of the unsolicited email worldwide. The top in this group are located in the US, but often send from outside the country.Imagine offices scattered around the world with more than 10,000 servers all sending out the same junk message amounting to millions of emails sent per hour.Do you know anyone who has purchased male member enlargement pills? It's one of the major messages junk emailers are sending today. Like most messages that deliver useless products, this too will pass.I don't know if any man would risk admitting to that purchase, but all those pills are proven failures and yet they still sell.To some men the extra money it costs is a response to desperate hope. Email and the post office is less embarrassing and sometimes worth risk that nobody will ever know about. Comfort found in useless options exceeds feeling lost in hopeless visions.If a top junk emailer sends out 5 BILLION messages and gets just .001% in sales, he has 5 million sales.Any one of the world's top 3 junk emailers can do that in just over 3 months and they are highly motivated to continue their business without concern as to what the excessive traffic is doing to the internet. Selfishness dictates that the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.Many daily spam messages are filtered into junk files without being read. AOL now blocks more than 1 BILLION unsolicited junk messages each day.Delivering the message, 'Do Not Buy From SPAMMERS,' to the relatively small customer base would be as easy as a SPAM message getting through AOL.When the world is your audience, the rules change.About The AuthorMike Oliver is a programmer/analyst who survived injuries from a serious multiple car accident. After speaking with attorneys who looked to create a case and then take up to 50% of any settlement, Mike Oliver knew there must be another way to get the legal help he needed, conquer the insurance nightmares, and keep 100% of his settlement without fear of a do-it-yourself-kit. He found it and saved thousands of $$$. You can, too.Get the lessons Mike paid to learn Free at http://www.car-accident-advice.com