Marketing
AeroGrow Transitions to Network Marketing
This is the Smart Idea blog and I am responsible by virtue of the name to pass on smart business ideas. This business model will be worth millions to early adopters and will meet a huge demand for affordable food and extra money for thousands of people. You can grow vegetables and herbs inside, year around with your own AeroGrow garden.
17Nov2010 | Mark Petticord | Comments | Continued
Design Your Success Blueprint or Someone Else Will
Most of us know that pulling the million dollar slot or winning the lottery is a pipe-dream at best. Being successful in any venture does not happen by chance but by careful design, planning and consistent action. It is interesting that scientific research has discovered that our DNA is a blueprint, embedded in every cell of our body.
28Oct2010 | Mark Petticord | Comments | Continued
Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future
I have a friend that sells Rolex watches for a major dealer up here in Seattle. During a recent conversation, I was reminded of a story about Swiss watches I read several years ago in a book entitled Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future. The following is an excerpt.
7Aug2010 | Mark Petticord | Comments | Continued
The Google Marketing Plan For Your Brick and Mortar Business
Simply put, Google has become the new “yellow pages.” When you compare their market-dominating 72.11% of all Internet searches to their nearest competitor, Yahoo, with an unremarkable 14.57% of Internet searches, the case is made that every local business should concentrate all their Internet marketing efforts on Google and Google alone.
22Jul2010 | Mark Petticord | Comments | Continued
Free Website Optimization Tips and Tools
What is the purpose of your website? Is it merely a glorified brochure on-line that’s all about you or is it a benefit driven message designed to attract and convert prospects into loyal customers? Here are some free website optimization tips and tools you can use right now.
15Jul2010 | Mark Petticord | Comments | ContinuedStaying Real During Accelerated Changing Times in a Cyber World
The premise of the excellent book, “Who Moved My Cheese” reveals a simple parable — Two rats and an “a-mazing” way to deal with change. This is a must read for anyone still stuck in the 20th century, marketing paradigm. Whether we like it or not, the future is here and change is accelerating at breakneck speed.
9Jul2010 | Mark Petticord | Comments | Continued
Attraction Marketing 101: Do What a Caveman Does
After 40 years, every time I walk past the frozen pastry isle in the grocery store my memory banks access an old jingle. “Everyone doesn’t like something but nobody doesn’t like Sarah Lee.” That jingle had me trying to figure out what “nobody doesn’t like” meant for years.
19Jun2010 | Mark Petticord | Comments | Continued
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