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Beta Testing The Ducttape UMS

Nathan — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:53:15 +0100

I’m honored and excited to have been chosen as a beta tester for a new marketing training course developed by John Jantsch (Ducttape Marketing).

The training course is called the Ultimate Marketing System (UMS) and over the next few weeks a handful of people will ...

Creating an online customer magnet using Google Places

Nathan — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:18:05 +0100

For local business owners, online marketing can be a bit of a mystery. The facts show that most people turn to the web when searching for local products or services. This means that if you don’t have a quality web presence your prospective customers may not find you and you are missing out on potent...

Is this the evolution of permission marketing?

Nathan — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 03:26:23 +0100

I just read about Groupon’s plans to launch a new service called Groupon Stores. The service will allow business owners to create their own mini site on Groupon and manage their own deals. Users could then follow a company’s Groupon deal feed to keep up on their offers. As a user you would then have the ability to subscribe or ...

2 posts from Dan

Nathan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:16:03 +0100

Just read to interesting posts from Dan Zarrella about how information is shared on Facebook.

Here are the links.

What days of the week are articles shared more on Facebook?

Are articles with digits in them shared more on Facebook?

Interesting information to consider for posting information FB that you want to people to share.

Shoemoney System Bonuses

Nathan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:02:59 +0100

I 'm offering bonuses when you purchase the Shoemoney System through my affiliate link.

Here is the link to a page for more information

Shoemoney bonus offer details page

Yahoo! And Microsoft Team Up To Challenge Google?

Nathan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:19:25 +0100

On Feb 18th Microsoft announced the upcoming partnership for search advertising. This new initiative, called The Yahoo! And Microsoft Search Alliance, will see both ad management programs combined under one umbrella run by Microsoft’s ad platform, adCenter, and powered by Bing (TM). The new partnership promises “More volume, less effort.” ...

ID website Redesign

Nathan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0100

I just loaded the redesigned website. The last year has been extremely busy and I have seriously neglected the site and blog. It's needed a face lift and upgrade for a while. I still have a few tweeks to make but It feels good to finally get the new site up.

Things to watch. Look for our upcomming training modules a...

This simple program has saved me hours

Nathan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

If you spend any time online these days you quickly start to get overwhelmed with the amount of login information you have to keep track of. From your bank accounts to social networking sites to your webmail, they all require a user name and password. If you...

Here's a good idea to save gas

Nathan — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:00:00 +0100

If every car sold in our country had a real-time gas consumption meter on the dashboard and the rear window, things would change very fast. -Seth Godin

Maybe someone will invent one. Sometimes all it takes is a change in consciousness for great things to happen. If you want to read the full post here's the link: The coming backlash over green marketing

Focus your blog using keyword research

Nathan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Looking for a nice guide to Keyword research? Check out this post from Brian Clark at Copyblogger.com. 5 part series on keyword research. I just ran through it. Brian does a really nice job laying out the process. Understanding how to use Keyword research to focus your website or blog topics onto what your audience is looking for can really help to increase the quantity and quality traffic.

Free Webinar with Tim Ferris

Nathan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The latest in the Duct Tape Marketing Coaching Excellence Series is this week. The guest this month is Mr. Tim Ferris, author of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Live Tele-seminar features all star marketing line up

Nathan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Free, Live Tele-seminar features all star marketing line up. Here is an excellent opportunity to here from some fantastic marketing and small business minds. This free teleseminar will feature:

NY Times bestselling author, Seth Godin. (I just grabbed the audio version of his latest book Meatball Sunday off iTunes.)Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?

Speaking of social media marketing

Nathan — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:00:00 +0100

Aaron has an interesting post that sheds some light on the actual value of traffic from social media marketing. If you are thinking of converting these visitors directly to sales you should read his post first "Is Social Media Traffic Worth 1 Cent Per Visitor?". Not all traffic is created equal and the quality depends on the result you are trying to achieve. Defining your goals then understanding how to use different types of online marketing strategies is key. Social media traffic might not ...

New Social Media Marketing Book

Nathan — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

I just finished reading, Getting to First Base, A Social Media Marketing Playbook by Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo. I liked the book and not just because they quote Han Solo (Star Wars) and Kip (Napoleon Dynamite). They give you real world examples and ...

Don’t miss this marketing tele-seminar

Nathan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Today’s Duct Tape Marketing – Coaching Excellence Series Tele-seminar looks to be another can’t miss event. I got some great information from the last seminar. It featured Guy Kawasaki. Here is the info and a link to sign up if you are interested. See you there. Speaker: John Battelle Author of The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture and founder of Federated Media - Battelle is considered one of the leading experts on new media, Web 2.0 a...

Build Doors for Opportunity to Knock on

Nathan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” - Milton Berle Good advice but, why build only one, when you can build dozens or even hundreds? Take Google for example. They’re not just sitting around waiting for people to knock on their search page. They are building on their strengths and agg...

Don't miss this business branding webinar

Nathan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Nov. 7th Logoworks is putting on a branding webinar. The speakers are going to be Rob Marsh, Director of Creative Services for Logoworks and John Jantsch, Founder and Author of Duct Tape Marketing. This looks like a can’t miss event if you are interesting in taking your business brand to the next level. I am a big fan of both Logoworks and Duct Tape Marketing, both ...

US Airways - Fly with us…or else!

Nathan — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:00:00 +0100

US Airways slogan is “Fly with us.” Maybe it should be “Fly with us…or else!” A few years ago, I had a bad experience flying with U.S. Airways. Here is the short version of what happened: Hours trapped on a plane in the hot sun with no ac …Screaming kids and pissed off passengers… C...

Women, Boomers & Geezers, Cha-Ching!

Nathan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:00:00 +0100

Tom Peters gave the Keynote presentation at the annual meeting of the AICC (Association of Independent Corrugated Converters). If you have the chance, you should really check out his presentation slides. (Warning! You may need sunglasses.) I am sure you will get the mes...

Joomla! One step away.

Nathan — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:00:00 +0100

Joomla! announced the release of version 1.5 RC3 [codename: Takriban] today. This is the next to last step before a release of the much anticipated stable version. No firm release date has been set for the stable version, but, what would you bet that there will be a big announcement on or around Oct 13 to coincide with ...