I’m a big believer that there’s much to be learned for us online folks by studying offline marketing.
So, I promised you that I’d share clever and unique marketing that catches my eye.
This is the one for this week.
Green tea has received a lot of good buzz in the press over the past few years, as studies show that the antioxidant-rich drink could have beneficial effects on everything from heart health to cancer prevention. And green tea can play a key role in the success of your Sexy Forever Plan.
A lot of bloggers out there want to make money doing it, but the way it is being approached just isn’t going to work.
I’ve said it about 2 billion times by now (I’ve lost count), but a blog is not a business. It never will be.
Yet, I see a lot of bloggers that, when they sit down and work, all they focus on is writing that next blog post. Really? How’s THAT going to make a business for you?
It’s a scene we’ve watched a hundred times: A public figure glares into the camera with an expression of outraged innocence and declares, “I am not a crook!” or “It was dehydration, not a drug overdose!” or “I have never had an affair!” Most of us in the viewing audience used to give these folks the benefit of the doubt, but not anymore. We’ve grown jaded watching a succession of well-known people make bold disclaimers that later proved to be flat-out falsehoods.
For the first time in its history, the editors at The New Yorker know which articles are being read. And they know who’s reading them.
They know if the cartoons are the only thing people are reading, or if the fiction really is a backwater. They know when people abandon articles, and they know that the last 3,000 words of a feature on the origin of sand is being widely ignored.
By VALERIE BAUERLEIN in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL in New York and ARIAN CAMPO-FLORES in Miami
Hurricane Irene weakened slightly Friday morning to a Category 2 storm, but was expected to strengthen again later in the day as it barrels toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina and then on to New York and New England.
Irene is still expected to slam into the North Carolina coast Saturday—roughly somewhere between Morehead City and Cape Hatteras—as a major hurricane, which is a storm of Category 3 or more.
It was the summer of ’97 and I was a college kid working part time as a programmer at an ad agency. I wrote a simple CMS: practically my first perl program (I was so happy to not have to write in anything Microsoft!). I got an old DEC Alpha Multia in exchange for some freelance Java work. I stuffed it under my desk at work and registered the domain name in October. Jeff “Hemos” Bates chipped in on the registration fee. Within months we were serving thousands of people per day on a system that looked remarkably similar to the Slashdot you see today. It was simple: I just was sharing stories that I stumbled on with a small group of friends.
’m in Vegas on business and there is “bad” food everywhere. Talk about Sin City—pizza, ice cream, burgers and HUGE portions have taken over this place.
But I’m not going to let a little travel get in the way of my flat belly goals (I’m really on a roll lately), so here’s what I’m doing to keep things healthy while on the road:
- Go grocery shopping. Right off the plane I made a pit stop at an organic grocery store to load up on healthy foods for my hotel room.
Yes, even though Rancho Cucamonga Realtor may seem like a strange name for a website, I chose this name for a reason.
You see, when a person is new in town or is just at home sitting at their computer there is a pretty good chance that this person will type in Rancho Cucamonga Realtor… or maybe Realtor Rancho Cucamonga in order to find an agent to help them with their real estate needs.
