A friend of mine that owns three restaurants simply sat down and handwrote a post card to his customer list inviting them to join his rewards program and he had a 20% sign up off that mailing. During the previous 6 months, he distributed two other post card mailings, without the handwritten message, and never had more than a 5% response rate.
What made the difference?
This time he used cheapest and most effective loyalty building and customer retention tool in existence, a tool that is largely ignored because it is boring to the marketer. However, it is so exciting to the customer that it completely drowns out all other marketing messages it competes with. This powerful tool that nobody uses is a personal touch.
“Oh, it’s just that,” you say. “I thought he was going to talk about some new idea or technology that would magically attract and retain clients for me. Personal touch, blah, blah, blah.”
Gotcha! I’m sorry to tell you, but there is no magic pill for attracting and retaining clients. It takes work – work that many businesses today fail to invest in. They don’t spend time to write a personalized handwritten note or make a personal phone call because that kind of stuff is boring. It takes too long. Taking the time to sit down and think of what you want to write, find a nice card, actually write the note, stuff it into an envelope, put a stamp on it and mail it. Are you kidding? Why not send an email, it’s so much easier!
When trying to create loyalty and build customer retention, easier is not always better!
What catches my eye about a service provider is not the easy things they do, but the things I perceive as they’re going out of their way to do for me.
After receiving cost hikes and poor service from my local cable service for years, I had come to detest them to the core. I would have sworn my prejudice was so ingrained it would be impossible for them to overcome. Yet, I melted with just one personal gesture on their part.
My cable box went out. The company sent someone over two days later and replaced the box. Not great, but OK. The very next day, I received a handwritten note by the cable guy…yeah! The cable guy! He thanked me for being a customer in his own handwriting. I immediately thought, if a guy that doesn’t get paid the big bucks at the company would still take the time to send me a handwritten note the day after he performed a service for me, then that’s a company I like doing business with.
Here Are My Top 6 Loyalty Building Handwritten Notes You Should Be Writing To Attract & Retain New Clients:
1. Always have a stack of “Thank You” notes on your desk. — Write at least one a day for anything or anyone that strikes your fancy. Just get it written and in the mail. You would be surprised how writing a thank you note to a clerk that helped you in a store can sometimes work its way back to you in very strange and positive ways.
2. Have an idea that people need to know about? – Send out a handful of notes asking people to lunch or breakfast to run an idea by them. 10 of these a month and your sales will go through the roof
3. Birthday and holiday cards – need is say more? And don’t send a lousy pre-printed one or a card with just a signature. That is a slap in the face. Take the time to write a brief message, then and only then, sign it.
4. Attach a note to an article that you read – nothing makes a person feel more important than when you send an article to them about an interest of theirs with a personal note attached. People work with people that do the little things.
5. Haven’t seen you in a while – sending a note to check-in with someone can result in business you never dreamed of
6. Send something to make them smile – a joke, a funny news story or personal account. This will change your whole relationship to that of a friend and people buy from friends.
Writing a note is one of the simplest, easiest and most cost effective ways to build loyalty and retain clients, yet it is the most under utilized marketing tool in business today. Pick up a pen. Write a note and watch the magic begin.
Michael Kaselnak
http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-articles/building-loyalty-6-handwritten-notes-you-should-be-writing-to-attract-retain-new-clients-106478.html
No one on earth would love to visit a doctor in all his sanity. But no matter how much we hate to knock at the Doc’s door, something or the other takes us right there. And the visits increase with age, as does the number of health problems. Now while it is true that doctors, treatments and medicines cannot be totally done away with, you can at least keep things within the limits of reason just by a smile or a grin every now and then. Helping your health shine with just a smile— well, if that sounded funny you can laugh alright, but it was not a jest by any means. On the contrary, health is indeed directly proportional to laughter.
The reasons are not hard to guess. Everyone likes to share humor, make merry or have fun. But what you might not know just as yet is that, the more you laugh and be happy, the less threat you pose to your health. No kidding this—fun, joy and humor are instrumental in uplifting the moral and physical health of a human being. Research says that the chances of a heart attack are reduced by huge degrees for those who laugh more than their fellows. Laughter therapists hold that laughter plays a huge role in today’s saga of survival. In the rat race of life, every little thing may lead to stress, anxiety, agitation or depression. The common antidote to all these is nothing but a hearty laugh.
One good thing about the laughter therapy to health is that people never get tired of excess. You can never possibly have enough of fun. If you love to laugh, you are all set to live a healthy stress-free life. And this may hold fine testimony to all success stories of humor or humorous pieces of work, be it in books or over the Internet. Take for instance the funny columns in books, magazines or your daily. Or the funny stuff you get online to tickle your funny bone. Didn’t you get hooked on to them for hours grinning ear to ear? And didn’t you manage to flip through them at least once even on a busy day? That is the where the ambrosia of survival lies.
Nowadays, the Internet is an endless source of humorous sites where people spend hours to do away with their boredom, or even when they are not bored. Voraciously reading jokes, watching funny videos or playing fun games they all knowingly or unknowingly ensure that they see the doctor less. However, the doctor or no doctor, who would mind a few gags and giggles to keep the spirits high? So be it. Laugh your heart out to be at the happy end of health.
Wain Roy
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/laughing-all-the-way-to-keep-the-doctor-away-84238.html
In thirty years of speaking and performing I have heard just
about every solution for overcoming stage fright. Some have
suggested trying to envision your audience all being naked.
Others have advised that you just pick one point of focus in the
room such as one person’s forehead and concentrate only on that.
These ideas almost never work, so here are a few better ideas
you should consider.
Prayer or Meditation: If you’re a believer you can pray if you
are not at least take time to clear your mind and meditate. (On
clearing your mind) A short prayer for God to guide you and give
you the right words can’t ever hurt. God has promised to give
believers words even when they are under a heavy persecution; Mt
10:19. Why wouldn’t he also help when there isn’t any
persecution? He would. Obviously you must do this before you
speak. If you don’t pray before you speak you might find
yourself praying in the middle of your presentation for God to
get you out of it as quickly as possible. Do not overlook this
little gem because although it seems unimportant, it can
actually be what makes or breaks your performance or
presentation.
Concentrate Only On what Your Doing or Saying: Finding something
to focus on in the room, the podium or in your own head is the
quick road to failure. If you are concentrating on some external
matter your attention is divided and everyone will see that as
clearly as a red blinking light on you head. One hundred percent
of your attention on your subject, your music or anything else
leaves zero percent wasted on fear, faces and nerves. It also
goes without saying that you should never give any attention to
time. It is another great false detractor. If you’re in a hurry,
it shows a lack of confidence, if you go over time you must be
approaching expert levels in your field. Take that as an
unspoken compliment.
Ask Yourself One Single Question: Before you begin speaking ask
yourself one all important question. Who in this entire audience
could do or say what I am doing or saying? If you consider the
answer very carefully you will always arrive at the same answer
which is, few to none. When I was playing American and Irish
Folk music I constantly reminded myself that I had a repertoire
of about one thousand songs. I wasn’t trying to feed my ego but
I was reminding myself of one fact. If I were to ask my audience
how many people could do one thousand songs, I would get no
answers at all most of the time. When I get up to speak I am
reminded of years of schooling, hours of personal preparation,
scores of published articles and two published books. Ego, no,
it is only the answer to the all important question. The bottom
line is that since no one can say or do what you are saying or
doing just get on with it. Waste no time on what anyone thinks.
If they could do what you are doing they would be in the podium
and you would be in the audience.
Get Emotional: If you stuff doesn’t move you it won’t move
anyone else either. This is an immutable rule of presentation.
If you are singing your interpretation of Twinkle Twinkle Little
Star pour yourself into it. If you are speaking about the
nocturnal habits of fire ants do it with gesticulations,
reverberations and tremors. Ridiculous you say, think again. One
of the greatest influences in my days of performing music was a
man I had never met and I never heard even one note of his
music. His influence came from the remarks I heard others make
about him. They all agreed that his shows were amazing because
he was so overwhelmingly emotional and caught up in what he was
doing. I soon discovered that when I got all wrapped up and
emoted in my music that even when I thought my performance was
poor the audience did not. Try it you’ll like it.
Use Humor: Not everyone is good at telling jokes and humorous
stories but almost everyone knows at least one or two good ones.
Nothing breaks the ice quicker than humor. If you get them
laughing early you have already invoked at least one basic human
emotional response, provoking others will be a great deal easier
from then on. Don’t comb the joke books looking for the best
jokes. Think of the jokes you have heard others say recently.
The key is twofold. Pick a joke or humorous story that is
somewhat related to what you are presenting. And do not pick
jokes that you alone think are funny. Use jokes that you have
seen bringing others to a belly laugh. Use humor that has worked
in the public domain. Don’t overdue the humor angle because
people can recognize filler material very easily. The other side
of the coin is not to ignore this useful tool of the trade.
Laughter is a great equalizer for both audience and speaker.
Get Personal: This is far more than good advice, it is a rule
that if ignored will become the difference between success and
failure. I have watched skilled musicians who never once
addressed their audiences. Their performance may have been
impeccable but in the end met with little acclaim. I’ve heard
speakers who know their subject forward and backward but left
people yawning and fidgeting. What was missing was often if not
always the personal touch. You must get a rapport going with any
audience on the personal level or will get nothing else going at
all. How can you do that? Take a cue from the stand up comedian
or the storyteller. They ask mundane questions and they wait for
someone to answer or acknowledge it with a gesture or murmur.
Where are you from, any one here from New York? Hey, does it
ever stop raining here in Washington. Let me see how many of you
are here tonight; if you’re here raise your hand. For those of
you that didn’t raise your hand I have a question, where the
heck are you? I often started off by saying, thank you for
having me here tonight and it is good to see you all here to
hear my music, now get out of here every one of you. Some were
shocked, some giggled some roared but all came to attention.
Sound silly, it is but make no mistake, it works.
See The Crowd As Only One Person: No science is available to
prove how or why this little tool works, but be assured it will
never fail. Always speak to the audience as if you were talking
to only one single person. It makes them feel that you are being
very personal with each individual, they can feel the
difference. It shrinks the crowd on a perceptional level for
you. Remember that perception is often the better part of
reality. It moves the entire matter to a, one on one. Who
wouldn’t admit that they are more comfortable talking to their
neighbor or some stranger but not a whole crowd? Approach your
performance or address as if you were doing just that and you
will succeed.
Rev Michael Bresciani
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/7-sure-fire-ways-to-overcome-stage-fright-when-speaking-or-performing-102.html
If talking dirty is new in your relationship and not something you have experience in doing it can be a little embarrassing. For some women just the thought of talking dirty creates a fear. You don’t have to fear what your boyfriend will say or how he will react if you talk dirty to him. You can easily get over your fear of talking dirty in a few simple steps.
First and most importantly follow your boyfriends lead if he is always whispering dirty little thoughts into your ear or talking dirty during sex then chances are he would very much appreciate you talking dirty to him. My best advice is to try it start with something low key and see how he reacts if he seems to enjoy it you will know. The same is true if he doesn’t care for it you will be able to tell that as well just by the funny look on his face.
When all else seems to fail ask him! Most men will say yes talk dirty to me 99 out of a 100 times. Once you know how he feels about it then ask him if there is anything he would prefer you didn’t say. This is also the perfect opportunity for you to tell him if there are some things that he already says that makes you uncomfortable. This is will allow you to set up your dirty talk boundaries.
If you still have a fear of talking dirty to your boyfriend, and then practice when he isn’t around and start slow don’t rent a porn movie to see how they do it! If you need a little help read an erotic story and pay close attention to how the characters in the story converse, including their timing and the types of words they use.
We all know there are two types of dirty talk the sweet loving talk you share with your lover and then the raunchy stuff you hear in a porn movie.
Follow these few tips and you’ll be over your fear of talking dirty in a very short time and you will no doubt begin to enjoy it!
Chris Roberts
The most popular agent of tummy ulsers is a bacteria called Helicobacter pylori. It has been suggested that H pylori are not directly to blame for tummy ulsers then again exploit any drawback in the abdomen lining as a result making it bigger and in some way making a supplementary severe pedicament.
The rest are caused by the intake of hefty and acidic twinge killers or any peculiar extraordinarily acidic substances. I assume that alcoholics on a drinking jamboree could as well suffer from abdomen ulsers, I am not considerably sure if my stomach ulser remedy will perform in that condition.
Symptoms:
Abdomen ulser symptoms accommodates a munching cramp in the solar plexus area amid a corresponding back ache. A funny feeling of acute bloating, even subsequent to a tiny meal. Nausea and vomiting in extra extreme cases. A bleeding ulser will arise up as entirely dark stools (not the sort you sit on) and if you vormit there will happen to be what peek equal to coffee granules in your vomit. Innumerable of the symptoms of stomach ulsers are identical as belly cancer; considerably I may possibly advice you have it confirmed by a medical expert.
Remedy:
I came upon it. Manuka honey from Australia. I own no credit card. How was I to get that stuff sent to me? I telephoned around for a local solution and found out the second remedy. A natural and existing remedy for abdomen ulsers. Reachable all over the world. Those Helicobacters where in for a tough moment. The health shop attendant recommended Mastic Gum. The herb shop owner had likewise suffered from stomach ulsers and Mastic Gum cured her. I also took in the recommendation of an old friend and commenced drinking a glass of apple cider vinegar (almost about single table spoon in a glass of water) every morning prior to gorging anything and constant every evening. More
In the dead of night I’ll consume 6 mastic gum tablets (2000mg) with a glass of water prior attending to relaxation. Inside a week of using Mastic Gum and apple cider vinegar I had no symptoms of any belly ulser, I was at last cured.
Four years on and my tummy is certainly all right. I finished the mastic gum bottle, delicately to make sure. Nonetheless an extra remedy may possibly certainly cement it so I consumed the Manuka honey as well. Tasted outstanding.
Why use Mastic gum?
Two subjects that Mastic gum achieves are:
1:Kills Helicobacter pylori.
2:Protects the belly lining (This can be assistant for folks who consume strong twinge killers as well)
Apple cider vinegar:
A few of the topics that apple cider vinegar is alright for.
1:High vitamin K content helps tremendously with supporting your bloods skill to clot (Quicker assistance for your ulser).
2:Helps balance the bodys acidity levels.
Mavies Osagie
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When the conversation turned to cool businesses that one could work from home the topic turned to starting a home computer repair business.
As my wife and I have had many such chats over the years this one started out as just a routine brainstorming conversation. Then I Googled the idea and things changed.
I found out that up to 95% of all Windows computers currently online are plagued with data-mining, offline ad pop-ups, something called parasites, trojans, dialers, browser hijackers and lots of stuff even meaner sounding than viruses.
According to Earthlink, “the spyware and virus problems are getting worse instead of better. Problems with locked up computers are more common and over 225 million computers are infected.”
I decided to start a casual survey of my friends. I gave myself a very low key goal of 3 to 5 months to complete the project. I didn’t want to appear too pushy or obvious. All I asked was one question and the rest of my presentation took a natural course from that point.
My conversation would begin casually and end with….have you noticed your computer is acting funny?
Most often the response would be, “sort of. It takes longer to boot up and I get so many pop-ups even with a pop-up blocker, it makes me sick.”
My next strategy is to say, well the same thing was happening to me and just about all of my friends. I decided to buy a kit to clean out viruses, some nasty worms, and some stuff that’s hard to pronounce. I always get a laugh with that line. Then I continue.
“Most of the time I just charge for the program I use for each computer which is about 20 bucks. I’ll take a look at your’s some time, just let me know when.
8 times out of 10 I make an appointment on the spot. Even though I’ve only done this about a dozen times, I’ve banked $600. This mostly because I’m getting referrals, one of which was a small accountant’s office just before the tax season started.
I’ve always maintained a private coaching practice so the money is not the main idea behind my project. I wanted to see if what I read had any value. It appears to be a true opportunity that can only get bigger.
USA Today reported recently that, “By the turn of the millennium, unparalleled growth in computer and Internet usage resulted in a $300 billion computer service market, comparable in size only to the home improvement market!
This sector of the computer industry is now experiencing double-digit growth, and is projected to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.” This was based on industry studies by Ziff-Davis.
If I ever decide to retire from coaching, I’ll have no problem moving into a computer home business.
I recently found a great little company that has designed a complete home computer repair package. If you know how to setup an internet connection on your computer, and access the add/remove programs in the control panel, you can do this.
What’s even better about this is my personal experience indicates you can pocket a day’s pay in less than a day.
Alex Rich, Ph.D.
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-business-articles/computer-home-business-126121.html
While everything changes around us, one thing that is constant over time is the growing need for sex and porn on the web. And it does not come as a surprise in an age which has an internet usage growth of some whopping 200 percent in the last five years. The more technology seeped in the lives of modern men and women, the more grew the number of entrepreneurs investing on adult fun portals. And why not? There’s no end to possibilities on the World Wide Web and no end to carnal desires.
Today, people get everything online and that may be precisely why they look out for more. They want newer ways of spending time on the net or doing away with boredom. Here, erotic websites just fit the bill. While some web-surfers fancy news sites, some are hooked on to identity development processes like blogs and chat rooms, and yet some others are happy playing online games or watching videos. But, take it or leave itsex sells the most in every media, with reasons known to all and sundry. Hence, the growing market of sex, porn and fun. Recent surveys hold that 40 percent of internet users today are visitors to adult websites, of which majority are young adults. The global sex site usage trend is always a steady curve shooting upwards, with more and more youngsters surfing the web for adult entertainment.
One very big reason for young adults turning to sex sites online is the lack of adequate sex education. It all perhaps starts with a quest to discover the “unknown”, to have all questions answered. Sex at an early age is always intriguing. So with the internet dishing out before them a free access to unlimited adult content, the need for sexual socialization also increases. Consequently, visitor count to adult websites gets a boost.
Even more interesting to know is that there are above 4 million erotic pages today, constituting 12% of the all existing websites and allowing access to over 75 million global visitors annually. Web-statistics also say that about 25 percent of total daily search engine requests are for adult or pornographic material.
To this big demand, many websites have come up with fresh adult content ranging from sexually explicit pictures, stories, posters to raunchy video clips and flash games. Some websites have even tried coupling sex with humor to sell sex on a funny accent. And those became great success stories as well. One such site is Erotofun.com, which entertains its visitors not just with erotica, but with erotic fun. The popularity rests with its huge array of erotic news, funny sexy photos, adult flash games, sexy screenshots from 3d games, etc. New additions are made every day to keep the content fresh and more. In a time when people get bored very easily, updating contentbe it in terms of graphics or textis imperative. Any website that stays static for too long in this fast-paced web world is sure to slip into oblivion. Erotofun like many similar adult fun sites takes care of its content so that its audience is greeted with fresh saucy stuff every time they enter the website. Visitors get to gratify their libidos and enjoy loads of funny sex sundries in one place. And not just that, today’s webmasters are smart enough to tuck that extra bit into their websites to draw more traffic. Like for instance, Erotofun promotes its site with the tagline “get paid to enjoy”. Now to think, that is quite an interesting thought for any lusty surfer. Sure anybody would be game for some hot fun at some point of time in life. And imagine, to get paid for some hours of salacious browsing, nothing could have been more exciting. Registered users can earn erotopoints for rating the site’s content, for uploading new stuff, playing adult games, voting in survey, or referring friends. The collector of maximum erotopoints features in the leader-board and gets to win cash prizes monthly. Game freaks with an additional appetite for porn can download offline adult flash games here as well. Simply put, the entertainment factor is finely blended with the erotic at Erotofun and others of its like.
Registration is almost always free for such sites. These adult fun portals have their respective ways of pulling visitors into their pages and each technique is unique in its own way. Every site has some feature to flaunt and flag and has a different story to tell. Some promise out-of-the-world virtual massages, while some assure outstanding sexual adventures; some offer sizzling hookups while others extend plain dating. That way, every sex-enthusiast has a plethora of sites to go to and satiate their libido. It is perhaps this variety factor, the element of newness in each website or portal that keeps alive the need for carnal excitement in humankind.
Young men and women across the world look out for newer ways of having fun online everydaybe it at home or at work. Plain pictures sometimes fall short of giving them just the right amount of pleasure. Therefore, erotic sites with interactive sections like downloadable flash games or user-rating systems are catching public fancy like wildfire. Online erotica is all the rage these days across nations, races and ethnicities, maximum users being from the United States. Even adolescents steal time away from homework to take a peek into the intriguing world of sex, fun and porn. Get exposed to one adult fun portal and you will know what fun it is. And given the timelessness of carnal desires, it’s no wonder that adult fun portals are on a forward march and are here to stay forever!
Wain Roy
http://www.articlesbase.com/sexuality-articles/long-live-libido-online-erotica-on-the-rise-73719.html
With mass communication being achievable with just the click of a mouse, the internet has become the worldwide marketplace. That is why most advertisers believe that viral marketing is the most effective way to get customers to buy your product. As Tom Kinnear, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan tells Forbes.com, “It [viral marketing] can be referred to as word-of-mouth on steroids.”
The movie Snakes on a Plane is a good example. While the film did not do so hot at the box office it got a huge amount of buzz when people started writing songs and creating videos based on the title. When the media picked up on it, word of mouth for Snakes on a Plane took off like wildfire. This required no effort from the filmmakers after their initial advertising push. That is the essence of good viral marketing.
You may not have a movie studio or Samuel L. Jackson to help you out but there are ways you can adapt viral marketing to your internet business.
The Fun Page
If you are a serious marketer, and you do not have enough funding for a major advertisement, this is one of the best techniques that you can use. Make a page on your site with funny or interesting videos or images, or even create a mini game that is focused on your product. Be sure to include a tell a friend link to ensure that your fun page gets circulated. Creativity is the key. If your fun page is cool enough, you can be sure that you will get more hits for to your website.
Kind of Weird
Remember the Subservient Chicken? Burger King created a webpage that contained a video camera with a command line below it. On the site, you just typed what you wanted the subservient chicken to do, and voila, the chicken did it. People were born curious. If you have some idea in your head, do it. The Subservient Chicken became so popular that people forwarded the links to their friends, and all Burger King had to do was to maintain the website. The downside is this strategy might create bad publicity but as the old saying goes, bad publicity is still publicity.
Email Forward
Create a message with funny pictures or a video, and then send it to your friends or list of subscribers. If it is funny enough, you can be sure that this little message will reach a lot of people. Remember that the images or video should contain at least a brand logo or a website address. The best thing that you can do here is to include your name on the video itself, like for example a guy wearing a t-shirt with your brand name on it, or a bunch of funny pictures dealing with your products. Most forwarded e-mails are viral marketing strategies. In this technique, you can always be sure that your e-mails are going to be opened, because they came from the friends of the e-mail owner.
Free is Good
Most people search the internet with free as one of their keywords. Free stuff can boost the popularity of your website. There are a lot of items out there that you can give out for free. Creating a downloadable Flash game is one of the most used today. But of course, you should make it interesting, and make the people think that without this free stuff on their desktop, they’re missing out a lot.
Viral marketing may not answer all of your promotional needs, but it will surely help you in creating a buzz. It is cheap, easy and very effective. What viral marketing does so brilliantly is fuel our irresistible urge to tell somebody about a good experience. It is hard to find any advertising better than that.
Daryl Campbell
http://www.articlesbase.com/viral-marketing-articles/what-do-snakes-and-a-chicken-have-to-do-with-viral-marketing-121348.html
With mass communication being achievable with just the click of a mouse, the internet has become the world’s biggest marketplace. That is why most advertisers believe that viral marketing is the most effective way to get customers to buy your product. As Tom Kinnear, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan tells Forbes.com, “It [viral marketing] can be referred to as word-of-mouth on steroids.”
The movie “Snakes on a Plane’ is a good example. While the film didn’t do so hot at the box office it got a huge amount of buzz when people started writing songs and creating videos based on the title. When the media picked up on it, word of mouth for Snakes on a Plane took off like wildfire. This required no effort from the filmmakers after their initial advertising push. That’s the essence of good viral marketing.
You may not have a movie studio or Samuel L. Jackson to help you out but there are ways you can adapt viral marketing to your internet business.
The Fun Page
If you are a serious marketer, and you don’t have enough funding for a major advertisement, this is one of the best techniques that you can use. Make a page on your site with funny or interesting videos or images, or even create a mini-game that is focused on your product. Be sure to include a ‘tell a friend’ link to ensure that your ‘fun page’ gets circulated. Creativity is the key. If your ‘fun’ page is cool enough, you can be sure that you’ll get more hits for to your website.
Kind of Weird
Remember the Subservient Chicken? Burger King created a webpage that contained a ‘video camera’ with a command line below it. On the site, you just typed what you wanted the subservient chicken to do, and voila, the chicken did it. People were born curious. If you have some idea in your head, do it. The Subservient Chicken became so popular that people forwarded the links to their friends, and all Burger King had to do was to maintain the website. The downside is this strategy might create ‘bad’ publicity but as the old saying goes, bad publicity is still publicity.
Email Forward
Create a message with funny pictures or a video, and then send it to your friends or list of subscribers. If it is funny enough, you can be sure that this little message will reach a lot of people. Remember that the images or video should contain at least a brand logo or a website address. The best thing that you can do here is to include your ‘name’ on the video itself, like for example a guy wearing a t-shirt with your brand name on it, or a bunch of funny pictures dealing with your products. Most forwarded e-mails are viral marketing strategies. In this technique, you can always be sure that your e-mails are going to be opened, because they came from the friends of the e-mail owner.
Free is Good
Most people search the internet with ‘free’ as one of their keywords. Free stuff can boost your website’s popularity. There are a lot of items out there that you can give out for free. Creating a downloadable Flash game is one of the most used today. But of course, you should make it interesting, and make the people think that without this free stuff on their desktop, they’re missing out a lot.
Viral marketing may not answer all of your promotional needs, but it will surely help you in creating a buzz. It’s cheap, easy and very effective. What viral marketing does so brilliantly is fuel our irresistible urge to tell somebody about a good experience. It’s hard to find any advertising better than that.
Daryl Campbell
http://www.articlesbase.com/viral-marketing-articles/snakes-a-chicken-and-viral-marketing-101433.html
Some people say that you can’t get a girl to like you – that she either does or she doesn’t. That’s pure nonsense.
If you really want to know how to get a girl to like you, read on and we’ll cover 5 steps to how to get a girl to like you starting right now.
Step #1: Exude Super Confidence:
Guys tend to over think just about everything. So don’t complicate the situation by thinking that you need all kinds of pick up techniques or seduction strategies to get a girl to like you – you don’t need that stuff.
At the core, girls need and want to feel secure around you.
If you’re nervous around her she can sense it and it scares her away. Exuding super confidence with women is really the fastest and easiest way to get a girl to like you.
Confidence with women is your #1 most important step, and you might not even need the other steps if you do this one right.
Forget about “fake it till you make it”; all you need to do is emulate guys who are confident and that will cause new neural networks to form in your brain – yes that means neurons will send out dendrites and form myelin sheaths to solidify your new-found confidence.
But the brain science is not important. The important thing is to consistently emulate confident guys or the neural networks will never form. You can’t take one tennis or golf lesson and know how to swing a tennis racket or golf club properly.
Same with becoming confident: practice being confident in safe situations and later you can transfer that confidence to situations like meeting and dating women.
Step #2. Have a Good Sense of Humor:
Girls like a funny guy, period. So how can you get a girl to like you if you’re not a naturally funny guy?
Learn how to be funny. Watch a lot of funny movies, videos, and hang around funny people. It will rub off on you!
Warning: guys often try to get a girl by using immature, dumb humor – in most cases that’s not going to work so give it up. She’s not impressed by stupidity, okay?
Step #3. Be Mysterious:
Guys often blow it with a girl by opening up and telling them everything and spilling their whole life story.
If you do that, cut it out!
Everyone loves a good mystery, especially women. If she feels she knows everything about you, there’s no challenge, no fun, nothing for her to discover.
Be mysterious – you want to have her lying in bed alone at home at night wondering about you and talking to her friends about this guy “she can’t figure out”.
Step #4. Be a “Don’t Wanter”:
You can completely ruin your chances of getting a girl to like you by being overeager and dripping with desperation.
The cold hard reality is that people want what they can’t have. And, girls are people too!
If you’re always available to her physically and emotionally, it’s over for you and you’ll probably get stuck in the “friend zone”. Yuck!
If you’re super-hot for her and aching to make her your girlfriend, this step is going to be tough for you, but you’ve got to exude an aura that is 100% devoid of desperation and you simply must not appear overly interested in her. So, play it cool Romeo!
Step #5. Have a Little Style:
Inject some style into your attitude, your demeanor, and even a little style in how you dress.
Girls tend to notice and appreciate good manners, good grooming, and a sense of panache.
This doesn’t mean you need to dress to kill (that doesn’t hurt!) but take some pride in your appearance, your grooming and your demeanor.
But be careful here: don’t go overboard in the good-manners department – review steps 3 and 4 above very closely! Being a gentleman does NOT mean being a doormat!
Summary and super-important bonus tip:
You can get a girl to like you, but not by reading these steps – you have to take action!
And if you’re lazy – if you do nothing else to get a girl to like you, then you simply MUST exude super confidence with women. That’s the ultimate aphrodisiac. Warning: confidence is not arrogance, cockiness, or acting conceited so be sure to only emulate pure confidence!
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David Robert Portney