Category Archives: Getting Traffic

What promotion really is and how you can do it anywhere and everywhere

Promote : to help or encourage to exist or flourish When you think of promotion do you automatically start thinking about advertising, posters or banner ads? Perhaps you think of sending out 1,000 pieces of direct mail or physically knocking on doors. Or maybe that hairy naked dude who stands on the street corner downtown [...]

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How to write a tagline way better than Microsoft

Microsoft proves why traditional marketing still doesn’t work I can picture it now. It’s early morning and the marketing reps of Microsoft are gathered in a room to discuss the new tagline that will grace their commercials and billboards over the coming months. The lights in the room are dimmed and there’s a PowerPoint slideshow [...]

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The “secret” of lasting web traffic

If this post teaches you anything, I’d be very very surprised The most important element in getting lasting web traffic… I’m gonna tell you what it is even though I guarantee you already know it. And, no, it’s not nude celebrity pictures or videos of Britney Spears accidentally hitting her baby with a tire iron. [...]

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The Internet. Now with Tartar Control.

I think every time I buy toothpaste I buy a different type. I can’t remember from tube to tube which brand I owned before, so every time I go to the market I have to look at 120 boxes all over again. Every single time. In fact, the only specific tooth product I can think [...]

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Girl Scout Marketing

Peruse the Marketing section of your local bookstore and you’ll see a lot of titles and some unusual pairings. Guerrilla Marketing, Punk Marketing, Pyro Marketing…the list goes on. These are not bad books and if they were I wouldn’t say so, at least not now, as this post is not intended to be a review. [...]

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