OMG, my favorite show is Shark Tank too. I have my 10 yr old daughter watching along wth me and man do we both have a lot to say about these folks. My husband watches out of the side of his ear. I was just on the site today looking up the Mr. Tod’s Pie Factory episode. This is all too funny.

I agree with everything you said. You nailed it my dear heart.

To A Prosperous 2010…

It is a link that you can send people to and they will go directly to the post you want them to see instead of sending them to the homepage and making them hunt for the page they are looking for.

Have you written the article for EZA? If not, why? What’s holding you back? Topic? time? confidence? Let’s talk about it.

Listen ~ I am a blogger ~ I have to keep providing new content, but that does NOT mean you have to keep doing everything I post. I have said time and time again pick one thing ~ and do that. If you want to do squidoo lenses then DO lenses ~ if you want to do a niche blog then DO a niche blog ~ there’s no way in hell you can do them all at the same time as your main strategy. (of course with blogging there will be some overlap when it comes to building links) but pick ONE THING.

You will succeed when you pick something and give it 100% of your effort. When you split your effort into 5 different things you only end up giving each thing maximum of 20% effort. A business is not built on 20% effort.

It will come together Doug ~ but don’t let me moving on to new topics distract you ~ pick a strategy, decide on a goal and go with it.

Might be worth rereading this post: http://internetmarketingformommies.com/are-you-going-to-make-next-year-different-than-this-year/

Hang in there!

You’re so right, it can become a real PITA for friends and family, which is one of the main reasons I never became too serious about it myself.

This article seems a fine segway into an article regarding keeping swipe files.

Yet another great Post!

I went through the funnel and got held up at the video just before you put your email address in to get the FREE goodies. I thought it was really strange to have a video or something that looks like a video, but it doesn’t move, it is just an audio track and a picture (that’s how I saw it… I realize that my computer might not of played the video properly, but that’s how it came to me). Anyway, if this was intentional, I wonder why he did it like that? If it wasn’t intentional, then he lost a sign-up because of my inadequate computer (not that I was going to sign up anyway because I spend too much of my time reading email so I’ve become very stingy with my email address).

Oh yeah, an observation — Have you noticed that all of your comments on this post are by females?? Assuming that Kelly is a female…

Thanks!

Cindy

Dawn, great things to notice, not only for your buying habits but the buying habits of others as well. Good things to take note of and write down for later implementation!!

I thought it was an excellent selling process. I hesitated slightly when so much of it seemed to be video. I’m on slow dial up and a marketer’s “quick” video will take me about 7 hours to download! Needless to say, I watch almost no video. But you mentioned a PDF, so I continued.

Half way through the PDF I was “wanting to be sold to”. I trusted the guy, I liked what he was saying, felt confident that he would open my eyes to new ways of using social media.

So I felt his sales funnel is highly effective – at least for me. If I get presented with a buying opportunity I will be looking at it. But please not video!

Why will I look at it when I delete so much of what arrives in my email box? The PDF, although general in nature, mentioned several words and phrases that are obviously “trigger” words for me.

I’ve had a Twitter account and actually deleted it 4-5 months back because I felt I was wasting so much time on Twitter. So when these “trigger words” are used – and I have gone through it and identified exactly which phrases they were – I basically am reaching for my card.

Great marketing, I thought.

PS. Must rejoin Twitter!