The Blog As A Business?

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I found this great quote on someone else’s blog a couple of months ago, but because of scheduling etc. I didn’t have a chance to finish this post until today. The original url of the quote is: http://hotblogtips.com/is-your-blog-a-business but that particular blog is no more. Whoever owned that domain before the current people deserves credit [...]

Not Sure What To Do With This Site – part 2 of 2

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Continued from part 1 The first part of the answer, is that the people attending SXSWi, for the most part, are too savvy to be dazzled by the gurus and their bull. Basically, they’re not there because the majority of the people at SXSWi, are not easy marks. To borrow a phrase from their parlance, [...]

The Problem With Latino Marketing Today

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This is what I feel to be the biggest problem with Latino focused marketing: It’s lame. Seriously, I don’t live in the hood, I speak English at home, I work in an office and not in construction, I’m a college graduate. Don’t try to pander to me with some fake and half hearted attempt at [...]

Demand Media’s Business Model

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This is just about the best explanation that I’ve seen for what Demand Media does. I’ve looked into, and seriously considered, becoming one of their article writers. My motivation was mainly to see if I could reverse engineer how they come up with topics to write about, but $15 per article isn’t exactly chump change [...]

Marketing Advice From Joe Dirt

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You can seriously get marketing advice from just about anywhere. Take this scene from the movie Joe Dirt, as an example:     Bottom line, it’s not what you want or like, it’s what the consumer wants or likes that matters. So you’re gonna tell me that you dont have no black cats, no roman [...]