Business And Marketing

admin on December 7th, 2011

I have been looking around on Flippa.com a lot lately and have notice a bunch of suspect activity.  This post is a list of the fishy things I have observed.  My hope is that it will serve as a guide to help you if you are thinking about buying a site or using Flippa.com for [...]

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I don’t really buy a lot of domain names, so I found it strange that someone would contact me about buying one from them.  Then I thought about it for a little bit and realized they must have been searching for sights that have info about Metairie, La restaurants and found menuflavors.com, my restaurant menu [...]

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admin on August 20th, 2008

A water bottle has been developed that allows you to take any water from any source (pond, puddle, river, stagnant water) and drink it immediately.  Lifesaver systems, a UK company, claims that their water bottle filters 99.9999% of dangerous bacteria and 99.99% of viruses from all water, no matter the source. They reference a test conducted [...]

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admin on July 21st, 2008

I have created a new restaurant menu site.  A the moment I have about fifteen menus listed and it is growing everyday.  I plan to index New Orleans restaurants first.   The site is menuflavors.com. View menus from famous restaurants in New Orleans, Emerils, Commander’s Palace, Brennan’s, Bacco, Olive Branch Cafe, and more.

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admin on May 14th, 2008

SEE Toys by Zen Design Group are windup toys that never need batteries.  The cool, monetary benefit is, according to the company, you get 15 minutes of use before you have to wind them again.  The wonderful benefit is you never have to worry about your children swallowing batteries. They have five different toys available: DynaFly, [...]

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admin on May 4th, 2008

As a marketer, getting your ad copy, article, or whatever you are writing read is your number one goal.  Brian Clark, “new media writer/producer, entrepreneur, and recovering attorney”, is the founder of CopyBlogger.com.  His blog is filled with a wealth of information on writing good copy that gets results.  Check him out.  I’m sure you will [...]

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I found this business site with a couple of good marketing podcast, www.churchofthecustomer.com.  The site tagline says, “A business podcast about word of mouth, customer evangelism, and citizen marketing from ‘Creating Customer Evangelists authors Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba.”  I listened to the podcast Are all marketers really liars? A chat with Seth Godin and [...]

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admin on May 4th, 2008

Long before I read Free Prize Inside by Seth Godin, I believed in the power of attracting interest by giving something away.  In this, and future, blogs, I will write about using Free Prize Marketing to generate buzz. The first story I would like to tell is a personal one.  In 1995, when I was twenty years [...]

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admin on May 4th, 2008

I just finished Seth Godin’s book Free Prize Inside.  As expected, it helped me to take a step back and reanalyze my marketing endeavors.  I have been practicing, although very sparsely, the Free Prize brand of marketing since I opened my first store in 1996.  But Seth’s book as convinced me that Free Prize marketing [...]

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admin on May 4th, 2008

All day long we are bombarded by tv and radio commercials.  As marketers, its time we stop wasting time and money on these unmeasurable, unproductive mediums. I know that some of you are thinking that so many large and “successful” companies run plenty of television commercials.  And if they are doing it then it must [...]

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