Posts Tagged ‘life’

How to Earn Trust and Influence Sales Part One

There was a really important post at DoshDosh today called “An Essential Marketing Principle: Give Before You Try to Get“. It went over a very basic marketing principle that has somehow gotten turned into a gimmick – the idea that in order to get someone, anyone, to do something for you, that you must first do something for them. 

It struck me, reading that article that everyone knows you’re supposed to do that. 

Everyone thinks they understand why to do that. 

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Status | We’re Back Online – Funny Message Moved

Our blog is back up. Thank you to our super-hero Web Host who has saved the day once again, just like the Powerpuff Girls.

I’m so sleepy. Almost as sleepy as I was when I wrote this message that you guys keeping pinging me about. Stop laughing at me!

Ok, laugh at me. It is Friday, after all.

The Zero Cost Traffic Ezine is Now Online

In today’s Social Media Issue:

  • The First New Traffic Test in a Year
  • Our New Facebook Group
  • Where to Get Free Help with Linked In
  • A Social Media Whitepaper from Jeremiah Owyang
  • Another Social Media Whitepaper from MotiveLabs
  • Add Us to Google
  • Links to 69 Articles on Web Traffic
  • The Traffic Methods Series #229 – 239

Whew! Are you as pooped reading it as I was writing it?

Read it here.

“Isn’t Me Lovely… Aren’t We Is Bootifull..”

That’s right. We changed the template again.

Okay, I, Tinu, control-freak extraordinaire, led the changing of the theme. It was me. ARE YOU HAPPY?

Sorry. Skipped my wheaties again.

Anyway, it seems that after a long search, I’ve found the three column, widget-ready, lightweight, professional theme with shades of blue in it that I’ve been yearning for, lo these many couple of days. I’m going to ask Nina to make our professional WordPress template based on this one, with our narrow columns all on the right.

We’ll be bringing back missing features like MyBlogLog, the DoFollow notices, and BUMPzee over the next few days.

It was hard to break the tie between what we had during our Cutline design change, the three-right-column version of same, and this one, but in the end, blue always wins out over right-column bliss.

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