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Re: Great Stick Marketing Example

dougmcisaac — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 14:05:24 -0000

You're welcome David! I was really impressed. I'm always amazed at how many business owners spend all of their time and money on getting new customers and completely forget them once they have them.

Re: From the Blog Topics Community

dougmcisaac — Sun, 15 May 2011 21:13:34 -0000

Chris,

Thanks for sharing my post, Never Lose Sight of Your Dreams. I was surprised by the amount of traffic and the new comments I was getting on a month old post today so I had to track down where the traffic was coming from. I had completely forgotten that you asked us to share posts with you in Blog Topics and that I had shared that one.

For anyone who struggles with ideas for your blog, I couldn't recommend Blog Topics enough. It's a great concept and has helped me a lot. Now if I could just get myself to be more consistent. :-)

Doug

Re: From the Blog Topics Community

dougmcisaac — Sun, 15 May 2011 21:08:39 -0000

Jeff,

Thanks for stopping by and commenting on the Dreams post.

Doug

Re: Never Lose sight of your dreams

dougmcisaac — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:43:51 -0000

Thank you for your insightful comment Henry,

My only regret about journaling is that I have done it too inconsistently over the years. There are themes to our lives that we forget when we haven't written them down. Luckily I have tended to journal when things were great and when things were bad. I have probably learned more about myself from the bad than the good. I've had similar revelations from reading from those times and as you did have made adjustments because of that.

Doug

Re: Never Lose sight of your dreams

dougmcisaac — Sun, 15 May 2011 10:41:55 -0000

Jeff,

Thanks for the idea. Fear would be a great follow-up post. I'll work on that. As you may have noticed I am extremely sporadic about my blogging so it may be a while :-)

Doug

Re: Facebook Sponsored Stories Are 46% More Effective Than Standard Facebook Ads

dougmcisaac — Mon, 09 May 2011 08:28:56 -0000

It makes sense that these would be more effective. I wonder if there will be backlash from people once they realize that its happening.

Re: PayPal What are you thinking???

dougmcisaac — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:08:28 -0000

Hey Dave,
No one trying to sell me yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it came. I like PayPal, just annoyed at that function.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting

Doug

Re: PayPal What are you thinking???

dougmcisaac — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:06:55 -0000

I'm glad you enjoyed it Brenda
I'm relaxed, I was laughing by the time I was done writing it :-)

Re: PayPal What are you thinking???

dougmcisaac — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:04:58 -0000

I always appreciate your humor Penny - the annoyance is that it locks the screen up until you click yes or no and it does it on every transaction. I've said no at least 25 times. "No" means "No" :-)

Re: Great Viral Marketing Strategy

dougmcisaac — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:53:34 -0000

Ouch, at least you said in his writing...

Re: Great Viral Marketing Strategy

dougmcisaac — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:50:27 -0000

Thanks for stopping by Stefan, doubly glad you missed that I kept talking about weasels instead of mongooses.
I'm looking forward to reading your book and really enjoyed studying your marketing. Smart marketers are beginning to understand the power of social media and integrated marketing and I expect we will see many more good examples this year.
I look forward to discussing and sharing with you in the future as well.

Re: Great Viral Marketing Strategy

dougmcisaac — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:45:04 -0000

I changed it - not sure where weasel came from. That's funny at least I was calling myself a weasel too.

Re: Great Viral Marketing Strategy

dougmcisaac — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:35:12 -0000

Dave - you're right on both the Niche marketing and Advance publicity counts. I would add that they hit a niche that is pretty active online, tends to be much more social and is more into "rah rah" self help than the general population, yourself excluded of course.

I've seen a number of authors use social media effectively and fully expect to see more from the bigger publishers.

Being a bit of a perfectionist, I started down the path of researching and explaining all of the other pieces of their marketing, but decided that I frankly never would have hit publish on this post and that's my new goal to produce and hit publish

Re: Never Lose sight of your dreams

dougmcisaac — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:50:17 -0000

Thank you Julie! I'm glad you liked it and as you said at lunch it got you thinking.

Re: Never Lose sight of your dreams

dougmcisaac — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:49:35 -0000

Thank you Pat, as you know I'm not usually one to b so transparent. It definitely made me step outside of the box to do it. I've received several private messages expressing their gratitude for the post and how it made them think about where they were in their lives.

Re: Never Lose sight of your dreams

dougmcisaac — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:38:20 -0000

I'm glad I got you thinking Terry

Re: Never Lose sight of your dreams

dougmcisaac — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:37:51 -0000

Thank you Neil, I'm glad you learned from it. I don't share much about myself. This was definitely taking a step outside of my comfort zone.

Re: Racing to the bottom is not a marketing strategy

dougmcisaac — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:15:54 -0000

Pete that's dead on - you need to maintain your margins to deliver the quality that is expected.

Re: I want to Thank You.

dougmcisaac — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:00:38 -0000

I'm looking forward to hearing about Web5Live on our Mastermind call tomorrow.

I have a pretty big presentation this afternoon and some other very exciting things to share. 2011 is going to be a great year.

Re: I want to Thank You.

dougmcisaac — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:39:44 -0000

Good timing, I hadn't done the gratitude exercise for about a week and just did it this morning about an hour before seeing your post. We quickly forget how much in our lives we have to be grateful for and how good we feel when we finish the exercise. It's power is its simplicity.

Re: Simple Facebook Promotion strategies

dougmcisaac — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:29:15 -0000

The key is to not only have a good giveaway, but to also have a plan to engage the new people who join because of the contests.

Re: 5 Ways to Promote Your Facebook Fan Page

dougmcisaac — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:27:15 -0000

You want to use the full URL. Because when you send them to search they can end up anywhere. Do a Facebook search for Walmart and check out the results.
Here's a post my buddy Jonathan did after I filled him in on this http://real-techguy.com/201...

Re: I’m eating my words | Affiliate Marketing Report

dougmcisaac — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:11:48 -0000

Jonathan,

Very brave posting this out here. Most people would have pretended everything went well and move on without learning. We've already discussed a couple of the things I would have changed, but I will add some things here.

1. Yes never give away your product during a launch contest. It's best to give away bonuses to the first "xx" that buy. I learned that selling vacuum cleaners at Montana Fair in 9th grade.

2. Affiliates are busy and most will not take the time to learn about your product. You have a couple of choices:

- Give them emails, articles and blog posts that they can put their name on.
- Give them content that they can send out as a guest post
- Do webinars with their audience only and give them a prepared set of questions
- or you can only work with a small group of affiliates who actually take the time to learn about your product. Which isn't too smart since the successful marketers get asked EVERY day to promote.

There are some other things, but I have to get to work on some projects and we'll be talking in our Mastermind with Scott later today.

Doug

Re: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217415

dougmcisaac — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:32:37 -0000

Public speaking is one of the best ways to set yourself up as the go to expert in your niche and is the easiest way generate leads and build business.

Not only is speaking is an important part of my marketing. It's something I enjoy.

Re: How NOT To Have Mind Numbing Office Meetings

dougmcisaac — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:32:44 -0000

There is nothing more painful than being in a meeting that meanders all over the place. I had a CEO who would spend hours discussing the most minute details and would literally spend thousands of dollars in time to discuss issues that only cost the company a couple of hundred bucks to fix. Drove me insane.

My motto on managing - hire good people, give them good clear objectives, get out of their way. If you must have several people in a meeting to facilitate everything moving forward faster then make sure you have a clear agenda with goals and outcomes and then stick to that agenda.