It must have been 6:58 pm on Thursday, June 10, 1999. Without warning, Ebay’s site went down. But no one at Ebay broke into a sweat. Back in 1999, Ebay had been down on May 5 (for five hours), on May 20 (for seven hours). And on June 9, after Ebay’s site redesign, the server […]
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Why Santa’s Marketing Works Better Than Yours!
Santa Claus Inc. is well and profitable, right through recessions, depressions and just about any economic scenario. The reason why his marketing strategies work better than yours, is because he uses solid, dyed-in-the-wool psychology. He knows he doesn’t have to use new fangled techniques, when his simple marketing has stood the test of time. If […]
An Exercise in Branding: Santa’s Website
Been to Santa’s website recently? Before you decide to go clickety, click — Santa doesn’t have a website. You knew that didn’t you? But what if Santa came to you and said, “Hey, I’d like to create a website. Can you help me? So let’s go about creating a brand for ol’ chubster You’d have […]
What Kids in Third Grade Know Instinctively
Expertise is a matter of perspective. It cannot be based in years. It cannot be based on experience. It can only be based on perception. To the second grader at school, the third grader is an expert Simply because the kid in the third grade knows more stuff than the second grade kid knows. Having […]
Why Napoleon Hill’s Mastermind Concept Fails Time And Time Again
In the year 1937, Napoleon Hill wrote a book.The name of the book?: Think and Grow Rich. That book skyrocketed in sales and to date has sold over 30 million copies (not to speak of gazillions of copies of PDFs floating around the Internet). And it was in that book that Napoleon Hill underlines the […]
How Personalisation Creates Instant Attraction
Imagine a 200-pound man, with an overgrown moustache turning up for a speaking engagement in a pink suit, pink shirt, pink tie, pink socks, pink shoes. And holding up a pink coloured folder for good measure. Do you think this guy stood out or fit in? When this ‘pink man’ stood in front of the […]
Why Brand Names Mean Little — And Why Personality Matters More
Do brand names really matter? Are they the first thing you put together when starting a business? You’d think so, right? But in fact, brand names mean little when you’re starting out. Huh? That’s got to be crazy advice, right? The truth is no one really cares about your brand name. You may not believe […]
Why Facebook Is Re-writing Marketing Books
Imagine you had a party that got reported around the world. A party that never took place at all. So here’s what the fictional party looked like. “A birthday party invitation posted on the popular social websites Facebook and Bebo attracted some 400 guests and gatecrashers. The birthday girl, British 16-year-old Jodie Hudson, and her […]
How Do You Spell Success?
I cry at weddings. Not when the bride and groom are smacking faces. I stand pretty nonchalantly at the ceremony. What really gets the tear ducts going is the buffet at the reception. My eyes well up with tears as I watch the tuxedo clad servers bear golden platters of jumbo shrimp in zesty cocktail […]
Can you avoid wearing that Darth Vader suit in future?
I was doing a three-day website strategy workshop in Campbell, California, when one of the participants gave me this piece of feedback. Apparently I was wearing a Darth Vader suit. I looked down at what I was wearing, and all I could see was a perfectly tailored suit. There was nothing Darth Vader about it. […]
