Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Everything I Ever Learned About Internet Selling I Learned from Ron Paul
People are Digging this story! (opens in a new window)
OK, so maybe that title is a bit of an exaggeration, but here's where the thought originated.
This morning, I was reading a recent New York Times article on successful independent musicians who are using the internet to launch, advance and sustain viable musical careers, and earn respectable incomes that would not have been possible just a few years ago.
They're calling this new breed of of creative "Artist 2.0" reflecting the new paradigm of marketing and selling being ushered in by technology. It confirms much of what I talk about in my article entitled "Record Label of the Future" which you can read here or here )
Immediately after reading that article, my blog buddy Angelo, over there at The Saipan Blogger emailed me with what's been happening with visits to his blog since "endorsing" Ron Paul. Since I don't own a television, read the paper, or follow politics, I discovered just this morning who Ron Paul is.
If I didn't know better I would think he was an internet marketing guru leading by example.
A visit to the ronpaul2008 website reveals links to other Ron Paul online sites on
YouTube,
MySpace,
Flickr,
Facebook,
Digg and
Eventful.
He
uses cafepress to sell merchandise,
embeds videos hosted on YouTube,
uses a typepad blog for daily updates from Ron world
highlights a testimonial page invoking the power of third
party endorsements to build credibility....
...all the necessary marketing power, brand-building techniques and networking channels any online seller needs to harness and exploit in order to reach the widest number of people, enroll them in whatever it is you're selling, and empower them to spread the word! This is fascinating.
They're calling this Politics 2.0.
With donations and votes as the end game, this new paradigm in the quest for political power is eerily similar to selling just about anything on the web.
This is the model that many of the presidential candidates are adopting as they advance along the campaign trail. It's proving that political careers like music careers can be launched, advanced and sustained without one ever leaving the security and comfort of one's computer keyboard. It adds credibility to those means of communication and networking that you may have thought were just for teens with too much time on their hands.
With politicians, passionpreneurs and the general public all vying for web traffic, expanded social networks, reciprocal links and myspace "friends" as key determinants to their success and happiness, what more encouragement do you need for using the power of the internet for growing your sideline business?
Just about everything you need to know about internet selling, you can learn from Ron Paul, or you can check out
Walt's QuickStart Manual.
NOTE: This post itself is an experiment in the power of internet selling and search engine positioning. Perhaps I'll make this a continuing featuring drawing parallels between the world of online selling and the world of online campaigning. What do you think?
Visit DIGG to see how People are Digging this story! (opens in a new window)
OK, so maybe that title is a bit of an exaggeration, but here's where the thought originated.
This morning, I was reading a recent New York Times article on successful independent musicians who are using the internet to launch, advance and sustain viable musical careers, and earn respectable incomes that would not have been possible just a few years ago.
They're calling this new breed of of creative "Artist 2.0" reflecting the new paradigm of marketing and selling being ushered in by technology. It confirms much of what I talk about in my article entitled "Record Label of the Future" which you can read here or here )
Immediately after reading that article, my blog buddy Angelo, over there at The Saipan Blogger emailed me with what's been happening with visits to his blog since "endorsing" Ron Paul. Since I don't own a television, read the paper, or follow politics, I discovered just this morning who Ron Paul is.
If I didn't know better I would think he was an internet marketing guru leading by example.
A visit to the ronpaul2008 website reveals links to other Ron Paul online sites on
He
party endorsements to build credibility....
...all the necessary marketing power, brand-building techniques and networking channels any online seller needs to harness and exploit in order to reach the widest number of people, enroll them in whatever it is you're selling, and empower them to spread the word! This is fascinating.
They're calling this Politics 2.0.
With donations and votes as the end game, this new paradigm in the quest for political power is eerily similar to selling just about anything on the web.
This is the model that many of the presidential candidates are adopting as they advance along the campaign trail. It's proving that political careers like music careers can be launched, advanced and sustained without one ever leaving the security and comfort of one's computer keyboard. It adds credibility to those means of communication and networking that you may have thought were just for teens with too much time on their hands.
With politicians, passionpreneurs and the general public all vying for web traffic, expanded social networks, reciprocal links and myspace "friends" as key determinants to their success and happiness, what more encouragement do you need for using the power of the internet for growing your sideline business?
Just about everything you need to know about internet selling, you can learn from Ron Paul, or you can check out
Walt's QuickStart Manual.
NOTE: This post itself is an experiment in the power of internet selling and search engine positioning. Perhaps I'll make this a continuing featuring drawing parallels between the world of online selling and the world of online campaigning. What do you think?
Visit DIGG to see how People are Digging this story! (opens in a new window)
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Insightful, as always.
Walt, I'm "tagging" you. See my blog for the rules. This is right up your alley. I enjoyed the exercise.
David
Walt, I'm "tagging" you. See my blog for the rules. This is right up your alley. I enjoyed the exercise.
David
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It doesn’t matter how great your website is - if no one sees it, you’re not going to make any money.
You've spent months coming up with the perfect design, refining your sales copy, setting up autoresponders, order pages and all the rest of the stuff to make a great website, but if no one knows you exist, your sales will never get off the ground. There's no denying that you need traffic to your website in order to make sales. That's a fact!
Would you be interested in learning Tactics, Methods and Techniques that will empower you to get the traffic you so desperately need to achieve your financial goals? I mean cutting edge stuff that flat out gets results, no matter what you're selling.
If you want access to an advanced traffic generating, money-making resource that will finally take your sales over the top, visit Traffic-Trix.com and Learn the Hard-Hitting Advanced Traffic Generation Methods That Produce Positive Results.
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