Archive for September, 2007
Will It Blend? Smart Online Marketing
As soon as the iPhone hit the market, BlendTec purchased one and made the following clip and put on YouTube. So far, the clip has been viewed 2,041,340 times, commented 6,048 times, and favored by 4,383 people. Monthly sales through the web for the Total Blender is currently running at more than 5 times our [...]
How to Get Your Share of Government Contracts
Looking to bring in new business? Then you’re probably on the watch for government contracts coming up to bid. If you’re not, you should be. Together, federal, state and local governments buy over a $1 trillion dollars in goods and services each year. A not-insignificant amount of that money gets funneled into multimillion-dollar constructions projects. [...]
Top 7 Insights To Unlocking Your Customer’s Brain For Instant Sales
Have you ever wondered … Why even the highest priced or lowest quality products sometimes outsell their competitors’? Why and how your prospects buy the products or services they do, even if their choices seem irrational or impractical? Why some brands have a devoted cult-like following while others have zero loyalty? Will The Real Decision [...]
Spiritual Perfume
Based upon an inspired Biblical formula, the world’s first spiritual perfume is designed to be a reminder of God, Christ, spiritual self and soul. “We turned to the Bible to seek inspiration about which items to include and became convinced that a formulation would reveal itself,†explains Rick Larimore, IBI’s chief executive officer. “Creating Virtue(R) [...]
Destination bike tours go wireless
The owner of a bike-tour company improves his business using various wireless technologies. After racing bicycles professionally for two years and realizing that I was no Lance Armstrong, I found another way to make a living on a bike. I had spent 20 years organizing bike treks with friends through the Alps, the hills of [...]
How can I form an advisory board?
My baking company is growing incredibly fast, and I often feel I could use a little advice. How can I form an advisory board? -Stephanie Vandegrift, Stephanie’s Premium Bakery, Dallas Dear Stephanie: “Start with a list of experts you can call on individually,” says Dorothy Adams, a board member of the Stamford chapter of the [...]
Whatever Life Dot Coom
What kind of job did you have at 17? I posed that question to the grown-ups I encountered recently while exploring Whateverlife.com. The teen-girl site and company was started by Ashley Qualls, an entrepreneur from a working-class neighborhood outside Detroit, who happens to be 17 herself. At that age, LeeAnn Prescott, the research director at [...]
