Are annoying pop-up windows chasing potential customers away from your website? Is there a better alternative for collecting visitors’ email addresses?
Yearly Archives: 2009
Is Twitter all Sound and Fury, signifying nothing?
Deciphering auto dealers' promises
Ever wonder how your local car dealers can afford to make promises like these? “Zero-percent financing! Drive it away for just $189 a month! We’ll give you $4000 for your old car, even if you have to tow it in! And (my personal favorite) below-invoice prices!” Can dealers really afford to make such extravagant promises? […]
Ford Verve: First design the customer, then the car
Successful marketing starts with defining your ideal customer. Who are you trying to appeal to? A product, service or sales message aimed at, say, Wall Street investment bankers (boo hiss) would obviously be very different from one targeted at teenage girls. Ford had the same idea in mind when it was designing its latest model, […]
Soggy summer still spurs smiles
It’s been a very, very, VERY wet spring and summer in New England. Far more rain and less sun than usual. Depressing? Naw, we’re hardy stock. But it reminded a friend/colleague of a joke which she sent out in her newsletter today. It goes: A curious fellow died one day and found himself waiting in […]
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
Got a few friends who still send emails IN ALL CAPS? Maybe they’ll get the hint after you send them the BILLY MAYS SCREAMING CAPS LOCK KEY! Thanks, Lifehacker! (4th item)
Welcome, "Gaping Void"
“Gaping Void” cartoons have arrived at Attract-More-Customers.com