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Comment on Opt-in offers: are you giving away the wrong stuff? by Karen Skidmore

Karen Skidmore — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:54:01 +0000

Hi Caroline – my instant answer is yes … but only as just one of the many ways you communicate your competition. You are (hopefully!) planning a full campaign for this and covering lots of places to tell your target audience about it ie other local businesses, other local events, etc.

If you have done your homework on your target audience and know who exactly you are wanting to attract, a google adwords campaign *could* be perfect, so having a webpage with your competition makes it the right place to have people add their names and email addresses (you are building a database, too aren’t you?)

Remember – the internet is as local as it is global.

Comment on Opt-in offers: are you giving away the wrong stuff? by Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:36:21 +0000

Thanks for another very insightful article Karen which I have duly shared to my networks.
I am helping my partner to expand his business to the next level and we have a holding page until our website is being built. It’s an event-based business currently only operating in the Wiltshire area – is there any point in running a free draw to win a place on an event as an incentive to register info given that people may stumble across the website from all over? A place is worth around £100 and we were planning on offering 5 places. Feedback anyone??

Comment on The Magpie Syndrome by Kevin Cook

Kevin Cook — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:50:49 +0000

FB and Twitter are really making people more close and the best way of sharing your thoughts but sometime it goes wrong.

Comment on Personalised Marketing: How up close and personal do you get? by text loans no credit check

text loans no credit check — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:49:31 +0000

Very useful tips, well i have lots of doubt before in my mind which are cleared after going through this blog. Thanks.

Comment on The Magpie Syndrome by Sherrill church

Sherrill church — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:38:33 +0000

Sounds like you’re writing about me there and the conversation we had

Comment on The Magpie Syndrome by Karen Skidmore

Karen Skidmore — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:03:05 +0000

Hi Karen. Thanks for stopping by with your thoughts. Watch out for the book … I’ve just finished writing it and I hope to have up on Amazon by next week as a Kindle version to start; printed book soon after. It will show you how you can re-focus and make money from your social media marketing

Comment on The Magpie Syndrome by Karen Macphee

Karen Macphee — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:17:57 +0000

Had you read my mind this is me, feel like a spinning plate focusing on how popular my twitter account is or not!!! as well as all the social media advice. You made me smile and that’s good, also – I will take deep breath and step out to give time to re-focus on how I can make money.

Comment on Do you display your prices on your website? by @BitraWebMedia

@BitraWebMedia — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:29:20 +0000

Thanks Karen great research…and we too fee that displaying prices had helped us to weed out the junk inquires, saving time.

Comment on Opt-in offers: are you giving away the wrong stuff? by Maija

Maija — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:42:45 +0000

Wow Mandy, thanks for taking the time to give such a detailed response – it’s like two articles in one now! And Karen, thanks for the high quality posts I’m keeping an eye out for them now.

Comment on Help! Other people are copying my brand and ideas by Chris Bonnett

Chris Bonnett — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:11:04 +0000

Interesting post, we often have what I like to call “data bleed” from our site to minor sites with much lower traffic online to ours, and generally we’re not too worried about this – you have to except that once something is out there on the web – it is there for all and sundry. We do however go through a number of procedure to protect our copy and images on a corporate level, that many people do not do. This is what you should do to stand up in a court of law if you a publishing unique copy, images etc.