Words (4): Geeks Like Us Are Shaping The Language

September 19, 2011

Surfing traffic exchanges, spending extended periods of time online and being social with other marketers may be things we do on a regular basis. Most of us take tweeting for granted, know what a captcha code is and are familiar with the pay-per-click concept. But it is only now that many popular words derived from [...]

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Customer Service: ListSurfing – Why A Badge Is An Achievement But An Achievement Is Not A Badge

September 17, 2011

In my last post I wrote about great customer service where a complaint was dealt with by sending out a hand-drawn picture of a smiling dinosaur to make up for bad service received. I mention it again partly because it gives me an excuse to use the picture of the smiling dino once more but [...]

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What To Do When Your Customer Wants A Smiling Dinosaur As Compensation

September 15, 2011

Customers can be hard to satisfy at times. They can be downright unreasonable. They can be infuriating. But you should always try to give them what they want…within reason of course. Whatever your niche may happen to be, you are in the business of providing your customers with that which they want to buy from [...]

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Random Rant: I Never Much Liked This British Comedian…Now I Have A Reason To Dislike Him Too.

September 13, 2011

I have never much cared for British comedian Jimmy Carr. He doesn’t make me laugh and his smug air of self-satisfaction always makes me want to cringe. Jimmy Carr – full name James Anthony Patrick Carr – is a comedian, TV personality and writer whose jokes I have never found funny and whose TV shows [...]

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Words (3): It’s A Sign of The Times As ‘Toxic Asset,’ ‘Double Dip’ and ‘Bad Bank’ Earn Dictionary Places

September 12, 2011

I wonder how many new people come online for the first time each day looking for new ways to make a living, a fast buck or a second income? As traditional jobs seem harder to find, pension funds continue to implode and banks turn out to be rather bad at handling money, more and more [...]

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Today Is A Day Of Reflecton

September 11, 2011

   

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By All Means Be Yourself…But Please Know Your Limitations

September 10, 2011

Yesterday we discussed that three vital ingredients to have for setting out to make money online were: Take action Be yourself Offer something of value I was reminded of those three points when I caught part of singing talent show The X Factor on TV the other evening.

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Take Action…Be Yourself…And Offer Something of Value

September 9, 2011

Every day more and more new people turn their hand to trying to make a living online. Some have an idea of what they want to do, others have little clue what they are doing but want to learn and more still just jump randomly from one “opportunity” to another. Many will fail, some will [...]

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An Astrophysicist Reminds Me That The Most Efficient Strategy May Not Be The Best

September 8, 2011

Today, just for a change, we are going to dip our toes into the world of astrophysics. And with those 17 words I wonder how many of my audience (not you obviously) have already found many more pressing things to do rather than read this blog. “You are not going to believe this! Griffin’s blogging [...]

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It’s A Good Idea To Know What You Want To Do Before You Do It

September 7, 2011

I had an interesting conversation in Skype the other night with a couple of other internet marketers. One mentioned a new project he was working on and then asked whether people thought it would be a good idea if he incorporated a totally new element into the mix. It certainly looked as though combining “Project [...]

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