Richard Dawkins on Marketing
Richard Dawkins has some lessons to teach us about marketing.
He makes some really obnoxious statements, calls religious people all sorts of offensive names, and supports legislation that would treat sharing religion with children as a crime. Surely he makes Stalin look like a reasonable chap by comparison.
Now a lot of folks would think that such outrageous idiocy would be tantamount to business suicide, but when the business is selling books, this kind of trollish approach is a recipe for success. Dawkins book is a best seller.
Live and learn, eh?
Design Is A Key In Web Directory Draw
I’m currently using the dmoz web directory, but a friend of mine drew my attention to a new contender for the top spot of the web directories available out there on the Internet. He said he’d started using Web Directory 7 in the spring and had such good experiences he couldn’t understand why I’d still be stuck at dmoz.
Dmoz hasn’t been all bad but there have been minor disappointments. I’m not crazy about their design, first of all. If I’m not crazy about it, I wonder who else out there might be. I tend to think I have a pretty solid design sense, since that’s the nature of the business I’ve owned and run successfully for the last twenty-five years.
My friend Hartwig spends a lot more time than I do online, since I usually leave all the techie stuff to my son. Hartwig first heard mentions of v7n on newsgroups he’d subscribed to. I just don’t have time to get involved in all of that stuff, but lucky for me, my friends are keeping me updated on who the Internet movers and shakers are these days.
Blogging for Money
If you’ve ever wanted to work from home and earn my online, let me tell you this is no easy career path to choose. Everyday people are inundated with offers to be millionaires with just a PC and an Internet connection. The reality of this is that most of these offers are scams. Be it from joining affiliate marketing programs to blogging for money, most of these programs won’t actually see you earning enough money to even cover your web hosting costs.
In contradiction however, there are some sites that do actually pay decent amounts of money for bloggers who have high page ranking websites. These bloggers who are happy to post paid links on their sites can earn anywhere from $10 to $500 per link. Not a bad sum of money for writing a three paragraph article. The problem with this however is that their websites become full of paid links and tend to lose the originality which originally made them great blog sites. These websites are generally of high page ranking on a Google or Yahoo engine search and can further enhance a paid advertisers search results.
Anyone thinking of getting into affiliate programs or blogging should do a lot of research first and not trust any offer given to them. Check some of the forums out that discuss this kind of e-commerce or look to friends who have actually been paid for posting blogs. The last thing you want to do is quit your day job only to discover that you are barely earning enough money to pay for your electricity.