Renegade Personal Development | Internet Marketing

7 Secrets of Social Media
Great video from my friend Perry Belcher - pretty well sums up all this Social Media stuff. I have known Perry a few years and he never fails to impress - one of these super creative people who has the ability to re-invent himself on a regular basis.
This is a [...]

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OTO, One Time Offer | First Call Discount | Selling Techniques
As many of my regular readers will know, once upon a time, I was a Double Glazing Salesman.*
Anyway, “us” DG Salespeople had a reputation is some parts of being hard CLOSERS – PUSHY and if truth be known, not really that nice of people. Of [...]

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Viral Marketing Lesson
What can I say?
This one really surprised me - Dean Hunt made a post at Streetlessons.com - which was “just” an image of an unusual clock - a Clock for Nerds as Dean put it.
If I am honest - it was for want of a better word a “filler” post.
But [...]

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Bill Hicks - The world is like a ride at an amusement park
I had only relatively recently discovered Bill Hicks
I can’t explain why, but I keep feeling myself drawn to Bill Hicks.
I keep coming across quotes by Bill Hicks and other bloggers giving him and his sophisticated rants about the world credit and [...]

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As an entrepreneur and marketer you are always on the look out of new ideas, suggestions or angles that can be transferred from one market to another.
For me, this includes when travelling, reading local newspapers, listening to other business owners and observing traders and their customers and the interaction that occurs.
Notice the word LISTEN [...]

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Yanik Silver Underground Seminar - My Favourite Speakers
A very nice feature that Yanik has at his Underground Seminars is that the Audience gets to vote for their favourite speaker - and that speaker gets a cheque for $10000 to give to their favourite charity.
This year the winner was a remarkable 23 year old called Jermaine [...]

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Yanik Silver Underground Seminar | Washington DC
As some of you know, I was in Washington DC last weekend for Yanik Silvers Underground III Seminar.
As expected, an awesome experience with amazing speakers.
“Officially” attendees cannot go into great detail about the content and the revelations made by the speakers - so I am afraid, I will not [...]

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As an Irish man this article in The New York Times got my attention.
An interesting story about two entrepreneurial Irishmen who are making money shipping Irish soil to the US and selling it in 12 oz. bags to Irish-Americans who literally want a piece of the “old country.”
Straight from the Auld Sod Export Company [...]

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As a marketer I am always looking out for new angles and new “spins” on ideas and this one caught my eye today.
The one thing I have learned about Viral Marketing is that it is often the silliest and most daft idea ideas that goes Viral.
Who would have thought that a video of a car [...]

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Lifestyle is more important than money

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