After managing and participating in so many product launches throughout my career, I’ve come to realize that most new product launches fall short of management’s original expectations.  After thinking about the most successful launches I’ve been involved in (which generated tens of millions in early sales and went on to generate billions in sales over a [...]

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Every once in a while, I run across something useful and interesting enough to let my subscribers in on it… this is one of those times…
 
Email has become a critical element of our business (and personal) lives these days, yet it takes so much time to sit down and properly craft an email that’s right [...]

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As I work with an increasing number of businesses, and their web developers, I’ve realized there’s still a huge opportunity for most businesses to leverage their websites to generate quality leads.
In the 1990’s, having a website meant putting up a “brochure site” and being on the Web.   That was then…
Today, Google is the new “Yellow [...]

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I’ve been heads down for the past 30 days or so working on the launch strategy for a major new consumer website (still under NDA at this stage, so I can’t go into specifics just now).  Working on this launch strategy and launch plan reminded me about how important proper planning is to launch success.
So [...]

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A fellow blogger, and CRM Expert, by the name of Jim Berkowitz just made a post on his blog you may find interesting.
Jim has made the connections between tipping points, sticky stories and how they can cause movement in a marketplace to take shape and get underway… (very powerful stuff)
“Back in 2000, Malcolm Gladwell wrote The Tipping Point; [...]

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Back in 2006, I developed an affiliate marketing product called “The Affiliate ATM“, which sold originally for $97.  It sold pretty well, then in 2007 I dropped the price to $77 and continued to market it.  Then, I got involved in other things and stopped promoting it for a couple of years.
A few weeks ago, [...]

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Today, I’d like to offer a proven online success formula you can use with most any business that generates and nurtures leads and sales using online methods.
This post is an excerpt of my Online Business Gameplan, Executive Leadership Guide that covers the up-front goal setting and planning processes invoved in driving controlled business success.
STEP 1 [...]

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Ran across this amazing story (on Perry’s blog) about how scientists are beginning to successfully read minds using a combination of special MRI scans and pattern recognition
Watch CBS Videos Online
Looks like the lie-detector may not be the only product to be disrupted once this innovation sees the light of day…

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I still receive a lot of email traffic from Internet marketers these days. However, like most folks, I only read a subset of what I get - usually from those who deliver consistent value - like Marlon Sanders, for example.  This past week, Marlon’s newsletter included an interesting write-up on how one of his associates [...]

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Hi,
I’ve been marketing in the online poker training niche since 2003 - a nice, big market, but lots of competition - and lots of restrictions against advertising in the usual places… which drove me to figure out some creative, unique ways to bring traffic to my sites (beyond SEO)…
Now I’m going to share one of [...]

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