Internet Marketing – The Way Forward?

Internet marketing is a very young business, and is still finding it's feet. For example look at your average IM sales letter, it is pretty much a copy of the type of direct selling that has been used in direct mail over the past 50 years. Recently there have been subtle changes the addition of video and audio (radio ads and infomercials?) but it still has a long way to go before it develops into it's own well defined unique marketing system. This is not to say whats being done now is wrong, virtually every new business type has started by copying it's older rivals . Another aspect of how an … [Read more...]

The Joy Of Outsourcing

Do you outsource? If the answer to that is no why not? I've been resistant to outsourcing for quite a while but a few months ago I bit the bullet and started to use freelancers to do tasks I didn't like doing or doing tasks that they would be better at. One of the reasons I took so long to outsource was I thought that no one knew my business as well as I did and no one could do a better job than me. This was naiviety on my part.  Using freelancers has freed me up to do things that I am good at. Finding new methods , testing them and coming up with idea's for sites and products. So … [Read more...]