Category Archives: sales

Marketing, sales

Good or bad Marketing We Promise too…

I have just signed up for a website that promises to split its commission with the users.

Good or bad marketing?

What do you think of their email below?

Hi,

I’m a member of a great site called wepromiseto.co.uk.

wepromiseto.co.uk saves me money and I thought you might like to join too?

Every time I shop online from hundreds of retailers I get cashback. I also get cashback for registering with other sites, completing surveys and even essential items like insurance renewals.

By referring a friend using my special link below I get £5 too 🙂

If you join, don’t forget to use my special refer a friend link below:

http://www.wepromiseto.co.uk/r/10754

Thanks,

Leo

ideas, Management, sales

How to Get Lower Priced Petrol?

See what you think and pass it on if you agree with it

We are hitting 123.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying 2.00 a ltr. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the ‘don’t buy petrol on a certain   day campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn’t 
continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy petrol. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT,whoever
thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

Please read it and join in!

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us  to think that the cost of a litre is CHEAP, we need to take  aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the market place
not sellers. With the price of petrol going up more each day, we  consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the  price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not
purchasing their Petrol! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. Here’s the idea:

For the rest of this year DON’T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies (which now are one), ESSO and BP.
If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact we need to reach literally millions of Esso and BP petrol buyers. It’s really simple to do!!

Now, don’t wimp out at this point… keep reading and I’ll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to a lot of people. If each of you send it  to  at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)… and those 300 send it to at  least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) … and so on, by the time the
message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached  over THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and
pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it… ..

THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That’s all.(and  not buy at ESSO/BP) How long would all that take? If each of us  sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt,
all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the  next 8days!!! Acting together we can make a difference . If this makes
sense to you, please pass this message on.

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE 69p a LITRE   RANGE 

It’s easy to make this happen. Just forward this email, and buy your  petrol at Shell, Asda,Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons Jet etc. i.e.  boycott BP and Esso
 

Consultancy, Relationship, sales, service

Who Is Your Audience?

I am sure there are some people out there who interested in widgets and can spend twenty years talking about them. That is great if I need help to understand widgets I will go and visit a blogger or a professional who can help with that. The widget blogger has a defined audience he knows who it is and the widget lovers know who he is. One could say a perfect Marriage.

Fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it. I have a wide lens and am interested in wide variety of subjects. Which is fine. For each subject I run a blog helping my users in just that area. The problem is business development is quite a big subject area, possible too big. So should I just focus on a few niches like sales, or telephone sales?

Then comes the second question how to market to that market. If I have chosen my area than maybe face to face marketing is better than using twitter or plurker. But Selling to the converted is easier than selling to the newbie.

Food for thought indeed?

 

business, Relationship, sales

The Startup Review

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The Startup Review  Sponsored by Sun Startup Essentials  I just came across this at Mashabel, the boys their have been busy sending me emails. I signed up about three or four months ago and have been visiting the site recently. they are obviously working hard on creating a  community. I am still not sure what it is exactly. For example a couple of the people I have been in touch with seemed interested in dating.  Anyway what I did notice is that they are promoting a reviewing services a bit like Techcrunch. It looks promising here are some of the details below. A 100 word description should be do-able.

* Must be less than 1 year old
* Must never have received coverage on Mashable.com before
* Must have something to showcase to our readers (active site/product)

To be considered, please submit the following to our editorial staff at: startup [at] mashable [dot] com:

* Company Name
* Company Logo
* Company Website
* Company Location
* 20 word description
* CEO’s 100 word description

business, E-Commerce, Relationship, sales, Uncategorized, work connexions

New Wcx Site Gone Live

One step back two steps forward.  We have gone live over the weekend with the new Business Development site. The key aim with this site is to offer companies and users a place to develop their Business and share resources. The old Work Connexions site was not meeting its user requirements and was proving expensive in time to maintain. Some of the many features on the new site included:

Groups, Email Contact, Advertising, Targeted content, blogging, Work Buddys…

Come over and take a look at www.workconnexions.net

 

 

 

brand, Consultancy, E-Commerce, money, Personal, sales

Why I did the 360 and Monetised My Site

I am going to stick my hand in the fire and say that advertisements in blogging can offer a lot of benefits to the reader. Traditionally I came from  background that has never really  been effected by advertising. Is that really possible in this day and age? Well sort of, Most of my small or large purchasers are brought based on my own criteria. Now,  one can argue that there is marketing and I am being indirectly marketed too but that is a conversation for another blog. Why do I think advertising adds to blogs. Well if you are writing about ideas and concepts in your blogs than there are a lot of products that can appear in blog offering their services that would bolt on nicely to the content.

 

For example if I write a blog about content then advertisement will appear with services for content. So the reader than gets double choice. Monetising my blog was a bit of 360 for me. My profile on the work connexions site was w3c compliant very readable but possible a bit boring. We hope with the new site to have remedied that and that business development will be enjoyable or whatever it is that you do. What are your thoughts? to advertising on your blog. 

 

Of course if you want to skip the advertisements just RSS there is no advertisements in the feed…

sales

A competition and experiment with links

As part of an experiment and also to demonstrate a page only exist on the internet if it is linked. I have uploaded a html file on to a server that is not linked by any other page. This page contains the following text “Congratulations You have found the competition page of Leo Cussons’s blog” It also contains a code. The person  that finds this page will win free advertising on Work Connexions worth £122.50 GBP. I suspect that as this page is not linked that no one will find it. I will confirm if that is the case next month. Success.