Thoughts on Real Estate Marketing…

Have you noticed? Lately, on many websites, you can’t go and read an entire article on one page. You get a teaser to get you interested in what they’re going to say, and then have to click forward, sometimes as many as 8 or 9 times, to get the entire article. I suppose the point [...]

Some people have businesses that offer a steady stream of products that  customers want and need over and over again – Grocery stores are in that position, as are feed stores and sites that sell health supplements or cleaning supplies. Those are all things we as consumers “use up” and need to replace. But what [...]

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, some retail stores saw more dollars in returns than in sales some days during the holidays. They also saw people returning trendy, expensive new clothes and exchanging them for less expensive, older styles. Even more alarming for the merchants was a trend toward returning previously purchased [...]

Have you noticed? We have about a dozen or so internet marketing gurus all promoting the same new seminars, marketing courses, e-books, and teleconferences. They’ve been extremely busy this past week. How do you respond to that? It makes me feel like the affiliate payout must be terribly good! But it does nothing to convince [...]

Everywhere we go lately there’s someone crying about the economy, predicting that times are going to be even tougher than they are now, and predicting nothing but doom and gloom. And yet… the steady flow of tourists to our nearby lake hasn’t slackened a bit. Friends of mine spent Wednesday on the lake, and said [...]

And that seems to be pretty normal. Marketing gurus are teaching people that the way to break into the business is to “Do a launch” and create a lot of hoopla over it by offering extremely attractive affiliate payments. Does that mean that what they sell is going to be good? Does it even mean [...]

For the past several days my in-box has been flooded with affiliate marketers telling me that I really MUST buy into “Traffic Secrets” by John Reese. I have no idea what this program costs, because I haven’t clicked a link, but the affiliate commission must be pretty good to have all these marketers vying for [...]